RE: dovecot-imapd Update Fails
> From: Lan User [mailto:obecalp@ameritech.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:24 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: dovecot-imapd Update Fails
> Hello,
> I updated my Debian Sid system on Sunday and I'm still stuck
> with the error below.
> Dovecot-imapd is no longer working :(
> I've tried "apt-get -f install" to no avail...
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up dovecot-imapd (0.99.13-6) ...
> Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: listen(143) failed:
> Address already in use
> invoke-rc.d: initscript dovecot, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 89 Errors were encountered while processing:
> dovecot-imapd
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> If anyone could offer me some assistance I'd be most appreciative.
Just a followup here to my own issue. This isn't the greatest solution
but it got me out of the jam I was in.
I removed dovecot-common and dovecot-imapd entirely and replaced them
with mailutils-imap which is working great for Squirrelmail.
Patrick.
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