dovecot - Dec 2003 - USER environment

Browsing in the 2003-September archives, I found out how to start dovecot
from inetd (using imap-login instead of imap). Still I've got a few
problems. I prefer not using inetd, but that seams impossible (see my 1st
email). And telnetting to port 143 results in an immediate connection close.
Hmmm, I'll continue exploring the archives.

Regards
Evert

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Evert Mouw wrote:
> Browsing in the 2003-September archives, I found out how to start dovecot
> from inetd (using imap-login instead of imap). Still I've got a few
> problems. I prefer not using inetd, but that seams impossible (see my 1st
> email). And telnetting to port 143 results in an immediate connection
close.
> Hmmm, I'll continue exploring the archives.
What does the logfile say? If you're using syslog, dovecot uses the
LOG_MAIL facility I think, so you might want to check whatever log that
prints to. I had a couple problems like this, and it was because I had set
up authentication incorrectly, so you may want to double check that.

Best,
Tim M.

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Evert Mouw wrote:
> Browsing in the 2003-September archives, I found out how to start dovecot
> from inetd (using imap-login instead of imap). Still I've got a few
> problems. I prefer not using inetd, but that seams impossible (see my 1st
> email). And telnetting to port 143 results in an immediate connection
close.
> Hmmm, I'll continue exploring the archives.
Search for me and you'll find a recipe for using daemontools and tcpserver 
with dovecot. You could adapt that to start from inetd instead if you 
really didn't want to learn how to use new (and arguably better) tools.

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Charlie