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