dovecot - Feb 2007 - startup script under FreeBSD 6.2 / dovecot-1.0rc22

Hi all,

I recently installed Dovecot rc22 from the FreeBSD ports and I have  
some problem with the dovecot startup:
- If I start dovecot manually, it works fine, it starts and I get  
messages in /var/log/maillog
- If I reboot the machine, that's where the problem appears, dovecot  
doesn't seem to start and I get nothing, no errors in /var/log/maillog

Any idea if this is a known problem and how to fix it ?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
--
Alexis
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:32:27 +0100
Alexis Susset <admin at munai.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Dovecot rc22 from the FreeBSD ports and I have  
> some problem with the dovecot startup:
> - If I start dovecot manually, it works fine, it starts and I get  
> messages in /var/log/maillog
> - If I reboot the machine, that's where the problem appears, dovecot  
> doesn't seem to start and I get nothing, no errors in /var/log/maillog
> 
> Any idea if this is a known problem and how to fix it ?
Have you got it enabled in the

	/etc/rc.conf file?

Check the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot file for information. I am not at
that machine now; however, I believe you just need:

	/etc/rc.conf
	dovecot_enable="YES"

In the file. It might be 'enabled' rather than 'enable' so check
it out.

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:32:27 +0100
Alexis Susset <admin at munai.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently installed Dovecot rc22 from the FreeBSD ports and I have  
> some problem with the dovecot startup:
> - If I start dovecot manually, it works fine, it starts and I get  
> messages in /var/log/maillog
> - If I reboot the machine, that's where the problem appears, dovecot  
> doesn't seem to start and I get nothing, no errors in /var/log/maillog
> 
> Any idea if this is a known problem and how to fix it ?
This sounds similar to a problem I've been having.  You're the first
person I know of, though, that has seen a similar problem.  This is
made even more puzzling by the fact that I'm using Gentoo and you're on
FreeBSD.

In my case, the problem occurs when a mail_plugin is set in the
"protocol imap" section (and only there).  As near as I can tell,
dovecot only fails when started from a non-interactive shell or
background process (I'm not sure which is the actual culprit). Using
"screen -D -m" to start dovecot bypasses this problem.

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