Dovecot starting and running, but not listening on any port
- by Dženis Macanovic
Among others things I'm in charge of a Debian GNU/Linux (Wheezy) DomU for the mail services of the company i work for. Yesterday one HDD that was used for this particular server has died. After installing Debian again, Dovecot decided to no longer listen on any ports (checked with netstat -l). Other services (like Postfix and MySQL) work without problems.
dovecot -n:
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid ext3
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
first_valid_uid = 150
last_valid_uid = 150
mail_gid = mail
mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n
mail_uid = vmail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
prefix =
}
pass db {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group = mail
mode = 0666
user = vmail
}
}
service imap-login {
inet_listener imaps {
port = 993
ssl = yes
}
}
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3s {
port = 995
ssl = yes
}
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/mail.crt
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.key
userdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
protocol imap {
mail_max_userip_connections = 25
}
UID 150 is vmail (I double checked file permissions). I didn't install Dovecot from source, but via apt from the official Debian US mirror. There are no messages concerning Dovecot in /var/log/syslog except for:
Oct 21 06:36:29 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.7 starting up (core dumps disabled)
Any ideas?
