Re: still can't get imapproxy installed fully on upgraded system

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-27 01:36, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >  as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get imapproxy
> > installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny system.  every attempt
> > to "aptitude safe-upgrade" produces:
> >
> > ... snip ...
> > The following partially installed packages will be configured:
> >  imapproxy
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > Setting up imapproxy (1.2.6-5) ...
> > Starting IMAP proxy: invoke-rc.d: initscript imapproxy, action "start" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing imapproxy (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > imapproxy
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> > Setting up imapproxy (1.2.6-5) ...
> > Starting IMAP proxy: invoke-rc.d: initscript imapproxy, action "start" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing imapproxy (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > imapproxy
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Reading extended state information
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done
>
>   ... snip ...
>
>   just noticed this being logged in /var/log/syslog when i try to
> finish configuring imapproxy, i'm guessing it's useful info:
>
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main imapproxyd: main(): Using configuration file '/etc/imapproxy.conf'
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main imapproxyd: Using syslog facility 'LOG_MAIL' for logging.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: No syslog priority mask specified.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: main(): SELECT caching is disabled
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: main(): Internal admin commands are disabled
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: main(): Allocating 3072 IMAP connection structures.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: ServerInit(): Using '/var/log/imapproxy_protocol.log' for global protocol logging file.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: ServerInit(): proxying to IMAP server 'localhost'.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: ServerInit(): Proxying to IMAP port 143
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: IMAP_Line_Read(): connection closed prematurely.
> Aug 27 02:36:19 main in.imapproxyd[10577]: SetBannerAndCapability(): Error reading banner line from server on initial connection: Success -- Exiting.
>
>   thoughts?

What IMAP server are you running?

(BTW, are you sure that you need imapproxy?)

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