dovecot - Feb 2009 - exim4 + dovecot + SquirrelMail virtualhosted on Debian

Hello,

I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4.  I finally
got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using the mail
command on my machine.  I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail (which
requires IMAP) working on my website.  For whatever reason, exim4 doesn't
seem to support IMAP.  I found out that Dovecot is a prominent IMAP server.

So I installed the most current Dovecot package (1.0.rc15) in Debian.  Something
is broken though...

As I log into SquirrelMail, I get an error message "Error connecting to
IMAP server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused".  To investigate, I
decided to telnet localhost on port 143 and found out that yes, the connection
is in fact refused.

So what do I need to do in order to have dovecot listen on port 143?

Also, I noticed when I restart dovecot...

debian:/etc/dovecot# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
Restarting mail server: dovecotError: Can't use mail executable
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory

I hope this isn't a serious problem.

Thanks

Tim Legg

Tim Legg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4.  I
finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using
the mail command on my machine.  I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail
(which requires IMAP) working on my website.  For whatever reason, exim4
doesn't seem to support IMAP.  I found out that Dovecot is a prominent IMAP
server.
Exim and its counterparts (Postfix, Sendmail, etc.) is an SMTP server.

> So I installed the most current Dovecot package (1.0.rc15) in Debian. 
Something is broken though...
> 
> As I log into SquirrelMail, I get an error message "Error connecting
to IMAP server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused".  To investigate, I
decided to telnet localhost on port 143 and found out that yes, the connection
is in fact refused.
> 
> So what do I need to do in order to have dovecot listen on port 143?
> 
> Also, I noticed when I restart dovecot...
> 
> debian:/etc/dovecot# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
> Restarting mail server: dovecotError: Can't use mail executable
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory
> 
> I hope this isn't a serious problem.
> 
You probably didn't install the dovecot-imap package.

~Seth

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 07:34, Tim Legg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4.  I
finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using
the mail command on my machine.  I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail
(which requires IMAP) working on my website.  For whatever reason, exim4
doesn't seem to support IMAP.  I found out that Dovecot is a prominent IMAP
server.
> 

Exim is an MTA,  nothing more

> So I installed the most current Dovecot package (1.0.rc15) in Debian. 
Something is broken though...
> 

UHG!, well if you insist on using a distribution that is always so
outdated, you might be better off asking on their lists for help.

If you look on dovecots website you'll see there the current stable
release is at 1.1.11 (unless I've missed the official release notice of
1.2), I also guess squirrelmail is outdated by years as well, and if you
run into problems there, Paul will also likely respond in similar
fashion as to what I have here...

There is nothing wrong with using the source, as you dont know what
tinkering the likes of debian and redhat do to distro-ise them