Error connecting to IMAP server EMAIL not working plz help

[asking]

Hello,

i m getting this error "Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
111 : Connection refused"

when i try to access my email account.

please help.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Where do you get this error? What is in logs /var/log/maillog? Is dovecot running?

ps aux | grep dovecot | grep -v grep

 

[asking]

i get this error while loggin in

where the username and password dialogue box appears.

 

[nobaloney]

Are you using Dovecot? Is it running? You didn't post the output of the command zEitEr gave you.

Also try this one:

# ps aux | grep imap | grep -v grep

Post the results of both.

Jeff

 

[asking]

got nothing in output with above 2 commands. plz check the screenshot

http://i52.tinypic.com/348rhic.jpg

 

[asking]

when i tried to star DEVCOT from directadmin it give error "/sbin/service dovecot start 2>&1"

plz help...

 

[zEitEr]

Try to do it manually:

/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart
ps aux | grep dovecot | grep -v grep

and please update us with results.

 

[asking]

/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart

No such file/directory found.


ps aux | grep dovecot | grep -v grep

no output.

 

[scsi]

/sbin/service dovecot restart

or

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

 

[zEitEr]

Sorry, my mistake, I misspelled a full path to the init script for dovecot. User scsi is right.

 

[asking]

[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
Shutting down dovecot: [FAILED]
Starting dovecot: Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 2703 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)

 

[scsi]

Well if you dont see it with:

ps xua | grep -i dovecot | grep -v grep
ps xua | grep '2703' | grep -v grep

Then it is not running.

You will have to just remove the master.pid

Maybe it got stuck or something.

rm -rf /var/run/dovecot/master.pid
/etc/init.d/dovecot start