cyrus-imap configuration question

[J. Roeleveld]

Charles Bradshaw <brad at bradcan.homelinux.com> wrote:

>I'm tying to configure cyrus-imap on a Fedora 17 system.
>
>cyrus-imapd version cyrus-imapd.i686 2.4.14-1.fc17
>
>I have sendmail and saslauthd working using DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5
>working.
>
>I have gone through the cyrus-imap configuration procedure, but when I
>try to
>start the server:
>
># systemctl start cyrus-imapd.service
>Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.
>
># systemctl status cyrus-imapd.service
>cyrus-imapd.service - Cyrus-imapd IMAP/POP3 email server
>	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cyrus-imapd.service;
>disabled)
>	  Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:29:32
>+0000;
>28s ago
>	 Process: 2049 ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_systemd_helper
>start
>(code=exited, status=75)
>	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cyrus-imapd.service
>
>If I start the master process manually or in debug mode:
># /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-master -D              (or -d)
>fatal error: can't read mailboxes file
>ctl_cyrusdb: unable to archive environment
>
>At this point ps -A reports:
>cyrus-master
>imapd <defunct>
>imapd
>pop3 <defunct>
>pop3d
>lmtpd
>
>Top reports imapd & pop3d are sporning and are being zombied at a rate
>of
>about 1 second!  Surely this is not right?
>
>Looks like the deamons are crashing imediately!
>
>Telnet seems to connect, but there is NO imap OK .. Ready response:
>$ telnet localhost 143 (or 993)
>Trying ::1...
>Connected to localhost.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>The telnet connection must then be killed.
>
>Similarly if I run imtest or cyradm both just hang.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance, Charles Bradshaw
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Are the permissions for the filesystem locations correct?

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