dovecot - Sep 2005 - login: Missing Protocol from server name 'imap'

Hello All (possibly again)

I did send a messge earlier, but it may have been eaten by the mail 
system. I've now managed to get dovecot started, and I'm now getting 
"Missing protocol from server name 'imap'"

This is somewhat confusing. Does it mean that I have somewhere called my 
server imap? or is it talking about it missing a protocol called imap?

if it's meant to be "missing protocol imap definition" or
somesuch, I
have filled that out, but can't for the life of me figure out what the 
error message is actually trying to tell me!

I'm running dovecot alpha1 on RedHat as3.

I have the feeling I've been staring at the problem for too long, and 
somone will just say "have you tried this!", but it's worth a
shot.

Thanks in advance

Phil

Do you have

protocols = imap

uncommented in your dovecot.conf file?

That's my best guess without looking for what generates that error. It 
certainly doesn't mean you need to call your server "imap" though!

Best Wishes,
Chris

Phil Bettinson wrote:
> Hello All (possibly again)
> 
> I did send a messge earlier, but it may have been eaten by the mail 
> system. I've now managed to get dovecot started, and I'm now
getting
> "Missing protocol from server name 'imap'"
> 
> This is somewhat confusing. Does it mean that I have somewhere called my 
> server imap? or is it talking about it missing a protocol called imap?
> 
> if it's meant to be "missing protocol imap definition" or
somesuch, I
> have filled that out, but can't for the life of me figure out what the 
> error message is actually trying to tell me!
> 
> I'm running dovecot alpha1 on RedHat as3.
> 
> I have the feeling I've been staring at the problem for too long, and 
> somone will just say "have you tried this!", but it's worth a
shot.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Phil

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