Can't Start Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server?

Virtualmin
1

Freshly installed and vanilla virtualmin -

On the system information screen it shows Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server is not running. When I click on the run arrow, I get an error:

Failed to start service :
Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already in use
[FAILED]

I notice that POSTFIX is running, but that only handles sending, right? I haven’t rebooted since the install… might that help?

Thanks all.

2

Hrm, well, the error you get when trying to start it makes me think it may be running, and Virtualmin is just confused about that fact :slight_smile:

If you log in over SSH, and type:

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

And then restart Webmin:

/etc/init.d/webmin restart

Does that help?

-Eric

3

Yep. Thank you.