DoveCot has status 75

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Hi :slight_smile:

When I run " service dovecot status", I get the following output:

● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2018-06-02 23:31:00 CEST; 24h ago
Docs: man:dovecot(1)
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
Process: 22097 ExecStop=/usr/bin/doveadm stop (code=exited, status=75)
Process: 1086 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1086 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jun 02 23:23:03 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap-login: Login: user=<office.vesch-technologies>, method=PLAIN, rip=2003:d4:
Jun 02 23:23:03 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap(office.vesch-technologies): Connection closed (IDLE running for 0.001 + wa
Jun 02 23:23:03 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap-login: Login: user=<office.vesch-technologies>, method=PLAIN, rip=2003:d4:
Jun 02 23:23:27 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap-login: Login: user=<office.vesch-technologies>, method=PLAIN, rip=2003:d4:
Jun 02 23:23:28 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap(office.vesch-technologies): Connection closed (IDLE running for 0.001 + wa
Jun 02 23:23:58 virtualmin dovecot[1254]: imap(office.vesch-technologies): Logged out in=1185 out=5647
Jun 02 23:31:00 virtualmin dovecot[1086]: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=22084 uid=0 code=kill)
Jun 02 23:31:00 virtualmin doveadm[22097]: Fatal: Dovecot is not running (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
Jun 02 23:31:00 virtualmin systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=75
Jun 02 23:31:00 virtualmin systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

This seems to be the reason why I can’t connect to my imap/smtp server. But I don’t know what it means or how to solve it.

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Howdy,

My suggestion would be to run “service dovecot restart”, then take a look at the mail logs (/var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log) to see what errors show up in there at the time.

You would hopefully see a better error message in there after attempting a restart.

-Eric

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I was able to solve this with this tipp.

In my mail-log I had this line:
Jun 4 08:50:09 virtualmin dovecot: master: Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 30302 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)

I ran this command to solve it:
rm -f /var/run/dovecot/master.pid
service dovecot restart

But now I have a new error which I can’t find a solution for:
virtualmin dovecot: master: Error: unlink(/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) failed: No such file or directory (in main.c:518)