CentOS 5.6/Dovecot – Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use

• 25 3月 2021
• by: hostslb.com
• in: linux
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Error: CentOS 5.6/Dovecot – Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use

You try to start Dovecot on CentOS 5.6 and get the following error:if(typeof __ez_fad_position != ‘undefined’){__ez_fad_position(‘div-gpt-ad-howtoforge_com-box-3-0’)};

Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use

 if(typeof __ez_fad_position != ‘undefined’){__ez_fad_position(‘div-gpt-ad-howtoforge_com-medrectangle-3-0’)};

Solution

Open /etc/dovecot.conf…

vi /etc/dovecot.conf

… and add the line listen = *:

[...]
#listen = *, [::]
listen = *
[...]

Then try to start Dovecot again:

/etc/init.d/dovecot start