dovecot - Nov 2010 - Fw: dovecot startup error message - RESOLVED (?)

Hello ,

Went to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, hunted down "ssl_listen ="
which I had set it up to "ssl_listen = required" and commented it out.
Tried "service dovecot start" and it started.

The USD2,000,000 question being : 

what does this do (I know , I know, I cannot remember, I documented
all this for v1.2.14) and will I need it in the future ?

THank you people,

spyros



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"I merely function as a channel that filters 
music through the chaos of noise"
 - Vangelis


--- On Fri, 12/11/10, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot startup error message
> To: "Dovecot" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Date: Friday, 12 November, 2010, 20:15
> Hello kind people,
> 
> Any help on this would be appreciated.
> 
> Dovecot v1.2.16. Freshly installed today. Comes up with
> this during 
> service startup (CentOS 5.5 -> "service dovecot start"
> <ENTER> :
> 
> ---------------------------
> Restarting DovecotFatal: ssl_listen: Can't resolve address
> required: Name or service not known
> ---------------------------
> 
> Here's "dovecot -n" :
> 
> ---------------------------
> # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5
> (Final) ext3
> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
> log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log
> ssl_listen: required
> ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48
> verbose_ssl: yes
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
> login_executable:
> /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_greeting: * Dovecot ready *
> login_max_processes_count: 32
> mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
> mail_plugins: zlib
> auth default:
> ? verbose: yes
> ? debug: yes
> ? debug_passwords: yes
> ? passdb:
> ? ? driver: passwd-file
> ? ? args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
> ? passdb:
> ? ? driver: pam
> ? userdb:
> ? ? driver: static
> ? ? args: uid=vmail gid=vmail
> home=/home/vmail/%u
> ? userdb:
> ? ? driver: passwd
> ---------------------------
> 
> Any help would greatly appreciated as this is a _live_
> system
> and was supposed to work hours ago (whoooops !) :-)
> 
> thank you kindly,
> 
> spyros
> 
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> 
> ----
> "I merely function as a channel that filters 
> music through the chaos of noise"
>  - Vangelis
> 
> 
> 
>

On 12.11.2010, at 18.20, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> Went to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, hunted down "ssl_listen ="
> which I had set it up to "ssl_listen = required" and commented it
out.
> Tried "service dovecot start" and it started.
ssl=required, not ssl_listen=required.
> what does this do (I know , I know, I cannot remember, I documented
> all this for v1.2.14) and will I need it in the future ?
Requires that all connections use SSL/TLS.