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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:30:52 -0400
From:      Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net>
To:        Perttu Laine <pepe@kahvipannu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: imapd problem.
Message-ID:  <1096986652.1096.48.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4759.62.183.166.174.1096955953.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi>
References:  <4759.62.183.166.174.1096955953.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi>

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On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:59 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote:
> I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this:
>=20
> --
> koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
> Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use
> koaze#

I appreciate your choice in IMAP servers. :)

> But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a
> while, but I removed it and ps aux show nothing that could use imapd port=
.
> Only other email app running is postfix as smtp.

`ps aux' doesn't show which ports are in use. For that, you should use
the most wonderful sockstat(1). Running something like this should show
you the "Address already in use" culprit:

'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"'

> So. What could be wrong here?

Exactly what the error message says: the address is already in use.
Trust error messages: they're almost never wrong, especially when
they're straight from libc.

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