Dovecot Won't Start

turkey3 · Post by **turkey3** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:33 pm

This was very sudden and I don't know what cased it. The Dovecot error files do not provide good info at all. But anyways it simply stopped working and now will not start. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and notice that /var/run/dovecot is inexistant, could this be related? Here is the mail.log file:

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Dec 16 07:51:03 USERNAME exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken

Update!

I noticed that somehow /var/run/dovecot folder is completely missing which is a key folder for making dovecot run. Is there a way I can retrieve this without reinstalling? If not, how do I reinstall without messing up data?

joem · Post by **joem** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:31 am

turkey3 wrote:This was very sudden and I don't know what cased it. The Dovecot error files do not provide good info at all. But anyways it simply stopped working and now will not start. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and notice that /var/run/dovecot is inexistant, could this be related? Here is the mail.log file:
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Dec 16 07:51:03 USERNAME exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken
Update!

I noticed that somehow /var/run/dovecot folder is completely missing which is a key folder for making dovecot run. Is there a way I can retrieve this without reinstalling? If not, how do I reinstall without messing up data?

Could you please provide us with the /var/log/dovecot.log file if it exist.

turkey3 · Post by **turkey3** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:03 pm

The /var/log/dovecot error file was blank. That's why I posted mail.error above. It seems the mail.error file has some relation since the error shown above is the same day the mail server somehow stopped and /run/dovecot vanished.

joem · Post by **joem** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:06 pm

That's Odd, my best guess is to reinstall dovecot maybe someone else has a suggestion though.

turkey3 · Post by **turkey3** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:41 pm

Will reinstalling it remove my current mail domains/data at all? I don't think it's with the data storage that's the problem but rather the files to actually run the software are gone. So will reinstalling cause any difficulties?

joem · Post by **joem** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:13 am

turkey3 wrote:Will reinstalling it remove my current mail domains/data at all? I don't think it's with the data storage that's the problem but rather the files to actually run the software are gone. So will reinstalling cause any difficulties?

Not 100% sure, but I don't think it will seeing how everything is gone all ready. Maybe imperio has a better answer for you. I reported this thread maybe he will reply.

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