[Dovecot] Dovecot not accepting connections

[Jim]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:03 -0500, Jim wrote:
>>>> Does it
>>>>
>>>> a) Hang after "Trying 127.0.0.1..."
>>>> b) Hang after "Escape character is '^]'."
>>>> c) Say connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
>>

> So did it time out on a) or b)?

Timed out after a.


> And you say "domain name", what about IP address? If the problem is  
> with
> DNS resolving?

Didn't try that, one more data point for next time.


>> The only odd thing that I noticed when I went to stop and restart the
>> Dovecot process is that only one dovecot-auth process was running,
>> normally I see two processing running.  After quitting Dovecot and
>> starting it again, I saw two dovecot-auth processes start up, and  
>> then
>> I was able to get mail just fine.
>
> Was one of them "dovecot -w" process? Anyway the number of dovecot- 
> auth
> processes shouldn't really make a difference.

May be unrelated then, just something I noticed.  I just start Dovecot  
with a '/usr/local/sbin/dovecot' at startup, I'm not sure what the -w  
flag does?  It doesn't seem to be an option in my version:

Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] [-p] [-n] [-a]
        [--version] [--build-options] [--exec-mail <protocol> [<args>]]
Fatal: Unknown argument: -w