Bill Berg wrote; Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:06 AM
>
> I don't know if that narrows down the problem, everything
> worked except the
> dovecot:
>
> [root@ ~]# service dovecot stop
> Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]
> [root@ ~]# service dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 110) failed:
> Address already in use [FAILED]
>
You might try;
killall -9 dovecot
then execute
service dovecot start
Must have been two dovecot imap processes running.
Gerald
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:46:16 -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote
> > Bill Berg wrote; Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:50 AM
> > >
> > > We have a strange issue with one of our BQ servers.
> > > If we have to reboot it, we cannot connect to the pop3
> > > mail server for the rest of that day. We can use webmail
> just fine,
> > > but it won't take any pop3 connections.
> > >
> > > Some process that runs during the night corrects the
> problem, and we
> > > can use regular email the next day.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know what process resets this mail function so I can
> > > run it manually now?
> > >
> > service dovecot stop
> > service xinetd stop
> > killall -9 dovecot-auth
> > service dbrecover stop
> > service dbrecover start
> > service xinetd start
> > service dovecot start
> > service poprelayd restart
> >
> > Probably overkill, but might work...
> > And since it seems like you have an immediate problem.
> > Just paste into a 'root' shell session
> >
> > Gerald
>