vm-POP3 Stopped?

dan

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Hi there,
Just been brought to my attention on my server that the POP3 daemon is stopped:
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-T6-DA *** Stopped ***
however, I can't find a place to start it. Dovecot is running, Exim is running, everything else is running, but there doesn't appear to be any place where I can enable the POP3.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

(Running Ubuntu (not sure which version), kernel 2.6.27-7).

Also, I don't know if this is related, but my dmesg/syslog is full of these:

[1105647.422879] exim[11241]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105647.425292] exim[11242]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105647.427703] exim[11243]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.936240] exim[11502]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.939668] exim[11504]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.944001] exim[11507]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.946598] exim[11508]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.949132] exim[11509]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.951705] exim[11510]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4
[1105836.954375] exim[11511]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4

any clues?

many thanks.

dan
 
also, as a further observation, virtual mailboxes don't seem to work.
i.e: the main account can login via pop3/imap and use email, but a secondary email address on the account (say [email protected]), won't work. pop3 client comes up with error "Internal login failure".
 
Just been brought to my attention on my server that the POP3 daemon is stopped

vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-T6-DA *** Stopped ***

vm-Pop3d is A pop3 daemon but not the only one.

Dovecot is running, Exim is running, everything else is running, but there doesn't appear to be any place where I can enable the POP3.

If Dovecot is running then POP3 is running. Dovecot replaces vm-Pop3d.

[1105647.422879] exim[11241]: segfault at 18201622 ip 18201622 sp bf8a4bec error 4

Exim is unrelated to pop3 or Dovecot.

the main account can login via pop3/imap and use email

So then by your own admission pop3d is running.

pop3 client comes up with error "Internal login failure".

But what does the server log say when this happens?
 
This is an extract from the /var/log/mail.log when the error occurs:

Dec 14 08:41:18 atl-smy-n2-10 dovecot[370]: auth(default): shadow([email protected],1.2.3.4): unknown user
Dec 14 08:41:18 atl-smy-n2-10 dovecot[370]: auth(default): passwd([email protected],1.2.3.4): unknown user
Dec 14 08:41:18 atl-smy-n2-10 dovecot[370]: User [email protected] is missing UID (set mail_uid)
Dec 14 08:41:18 atl-smy-n2-10 dovecot[370]: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<[email protected]>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=5.6.7.8

however it now appears, having dug a little deeper on the forum, i found this, http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24031&highlight=internal+login+failure which appears to be directly related. attempting what John suggested actually worked, so I'm sorry, I answered my own question!
what did confuse me was that pop3 was running, and working for the primary account username, however it was refusing when trying to login with any virtual mailboxes, and vm-pop3d was reported as stopped. now i know that dovecot is it's replacement, and having carried out the steps in the link just above, that vm-pop3d line in services information has now gone away :)
now i just need to figure out why exim's whining!
thanks anyway :)
 
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