I googled: Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 110) failed: Address already in use
And found to try this: lsof -i :110
That returned this: portsentr 5061 root 8u IPv4 13167 TCP *:pop3
(LISTEN)
So I killed process 5061, started dovecot, and everything is hunky dory.
Bill Berg
Northern Webworks
715-627-0400 or 1-866-572-1333
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:42 AM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:15091] Re: Mail servers
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
>
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