[CentOS] dovecot fails to start at boot, but starts manually

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> [ken at segw2 ~]$ chkconfig --list dovecot
> dovecot         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> [ken at segw2 ~]$ runlevel
> N 3

despite that which seems to be correct, can you please post the output 
of the following?
find /etc/rc* -name \*dovecot\* -exec ls -l \{\} \;

ciao - Michael