I uninstalled this latest version & install another old version : it did not give the earlier errors but it does not have pop3 service:
rpm -i ./dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm warning: ./dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6 [root@old]# /etc/init.d/dovecot start Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): [ OK ] [root@old]# telnet localhost 110 # to test if POP3 is listening Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, sunhux G <[email protected]> wrote: > I've done the installation (rpm downloaded from the RHES4 link > given by Oli below) but dovecot won't start, it gave > the error pop3-login & imap-login not supported by protocol. > > I'm sure with a much older version (in my previous post) of > dovecot, I'm able to start up dovecot & it did not give this > error. Thought dovecot is suppose to come with pop3 & imap? > > > # rpm -Uvh --force mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm > warning: mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, > key ID 443e1821 > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] > 1:mysqlclient14 ########################################### > [100%] > /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libcpqlsptransport.so.0 is not a symbolic link > [root@tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql > mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 > perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1 > php-mysql-4.3.9-3.8 > mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 > mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1 <== it's there now > [root@tmp]# rpm -i ./dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4.i386.rpm > warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature > warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature > [root@tmp]# cd /etc > [root@etc]# ls -ld rc*/*dove* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc0.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc1.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc2.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc3.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc4.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc5.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc6.d/K01dovecot -> > ../init.d/dovecot > [root@nspplss2 etc]# ls -ld rc*/S*dove* > ls: rc*/S*dove*: No such file or directory > [root@nspplss2 etc]# pwd > /etc > [root@etc]# ls rc*/*postf* > rc0.d/K30postfix rc2.d/S80postfix rc4.d/S80postfix rc6.d/K30postfix > rc1.d/K30postfix rc3.d/S99postfixstart rc5.d/S80postfix > [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc3.d/S70dovecot > [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc5.d/S70dovecot > > [root@]# init.d/dovecot start > Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported > by protocol > Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address family not > supported by protocol > Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol > Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address family not > supported by protocol > Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol > Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address family not > supported by protocol > Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol > Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address family not > supported by protocol > Fatal: Failed to start listeners > [FAILED] > > [root@etc]# telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > [root@etc]# rpm -qa | grep dove > dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4 > [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep pop3 > [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep imap > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Oli Schacher <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:53 +0800 >> sunhux G <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I'm on RHES 4.x >> > >> > I downloaded 2 dovecot RPM packages from >> > http://packages.sw.be/dovecot/ >> > >> > dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm 13-Nov-2010 22:15 1.8M >> > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit >> > and >> > dovecot-0.99.13-1.2.el4.test.i386.rpm 21-Feb-2005 16:57 693K >> > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit >> > >> >> [...] >> >Q1: >> >Is the test version rpm of dovecot reliable? It's only half the size >> >of the other rpm (that I was not able to install) >> >> 0.9 / 1.0 : These versions are way out of date and you will probably >> have a hard time getting support. I suggest you try the current >> versions from atrpms.net We have been using the 2.0 RHEL5 packages by >> Axel Thimm for quite some time now and they work flawlessly. >> >> Link for RHEL4 packages: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/ >> >> Maybe this fixes Q2 as well ;-) >> >> Q3: You'll find lots of examples / tutorials in the dovecot wiki : >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/#HOWTOs.2C_examples_and_tutorials >> >> HTH >> >> Oli >> > > >
