Courier-IMAP Problems

twam · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: Courier-IMAP Problems

Hi,

Just emerged Courier-IMAP, but it won't start.

nixnut · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

any messages in /var/log/messages?
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twam · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

No, absolutely not.

twam · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

Nobody any hints?

peppy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 76

i would re-emerge it, if you are configuring it with ssl check to see that you didn't mess anything up in the pop3d.cnf and imapd.cnf files, make sure that your network is up and you haven an internet access.

ehh sorry I am having problems with courier-imap as well.
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twam · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

I already reemerged it. The pop3d.cnf and imapd.cnf files are the original ones. Network and Internet is working well.

twam · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

Maybe the start scripts are wrong. In /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d i find

twam · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject:

Installed an older baselayout. Now it's working.

UberLord · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject:

twam · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject:

I did install the 1.12.0alpha because I hat problems with my old 1.9 regarding VLAN. Now I'm running 1.11 and both is working fine.

Thanks for your explanation!

rolweber · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: courier-imap won't start

I updated to the new baselayout-1.12.4-r2 and now courier-imap won't start.
This thread explains the problem (broken init script of courier-imap), but how do I fix it?
Patch something in the init script? Unpatch something that came with the new baselayout?

Any help will be appreciated.

cheers,
Roland

rolweber · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:15 am Post subject:

Ok, I found the bug in the init script after reading
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-371375-start-2-highlight-courierimap+baselayout.html
It's not exactly the one described there, but almost. The command in my /etc/init.d/courier-imap looked like:

amigafan · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

amigafan · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

hanj · Veteran Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 1500

I wanted to chime in with a 'me too'. Double dash didn't fix the init script for me.

fcgreg · Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:08 am Post subject: Related bug on Bugzilla

FYI: This bug on Bugzilla appears to be related and is being referenced by other threads in the forums. Apparently this is a known bug in the init-scripts that was fixed in (testing) version 4.0.4 or Courier-IMAP. The bug has been reopened due to the many problems we are all having.

In my case, I upgraded to the latest testing version (4.0.6) and it is working well. Hope that helps...
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hanj · Veteran Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 1500

Hello

I was worried with introducing additional problems by upgrading to 4.0.4. Based off of the bug, it appears to be an issue with baselayout and just the init scripts. I'm not sure if version 4.0.4 only addresses this.. or has other changes. I thought I'd try modifying the start/stop using the 4.0.4 templates.. and it works. For those that don't want to upgrade.. but just change the existing init scripts.. here is what I changed.

/etc/init.d/courier-pop3d-ssl

Quincy · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:13 am Post subject:

I was wondering why people complain about using gentoo on a production server...these "stable" updates are surely a reason. I can't understand why these things have to become clear in the forums after a packet has marked stable and all known bugs concerning this were ignored...
Thanks hanj....

Biffen · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 32

Had same problem with the new latest stable: (using courier-imap-ssl)

[ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r2 USE="-bootstrap -build -static -unicode" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.1 USE="berkdb gdbm nls -debug -fam -ipv6" 0 kB

I modifyed the:

/etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl

Copied the start/stop part from:

/usr/portage/net-mail/courier-imap/files/courier-imap-4.0.4-courier-imapd-ssl.rc6

Works fine now, thanks hanj!

mobian · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 72

This is ridiculous !! Why is stable baselayout breaking things like this?

mrness · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:00 am Post subject:

the broken thing is the courier init script, not the new baselayout.

MrNugget · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

Always funny when my stable gentoo system is broken and i need to look in these forums...

But i fixed it, thanks to hanj. Just copied the start/stop-sections of those files, that did it.

ShALLaX · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 34

Absolutely terrible. I think a new Gentoo specific definition of "Stable" needs to be added to the dictionary.

DJEMiVT · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8

Agreed,

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to switch to freebsd or debian. It really shouldn't matter if it's the packages fault, or baselayouts fault, or whatever. As it stands my initscripts are still broken, and I have had to write my own scripts to start and stop the services. This is very frustrating...