on 10/24/2007 12:51 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: > On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:23 PM +0200 Michael Kress > <kress at hal.saar.de> wrote: > >> despite that which seems to be correct, can you please post the output of >> the following? >> find /etc/rc* -name \*dovecot\* -exec ls -l \{\} \; > > Looks right to me: > > [ken at segw2 ~]$ [ken at segw2 ~]$ find /etc/rc* -name \*dovecot\* -ls > 85329138 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 13 01:40 > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S65dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329136 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 24 06:00 > /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K35dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329135 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 24 06:00 > /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K35dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329141 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 24 06:00 > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329137 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 24 06:00 > /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K35dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329139 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 13 01:40 > /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S65dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot > 85329134 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 917 Mar 14 2007 > /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot > 85329140 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 13 01:40 > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S65dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot Are you using any auth services in dovecot that are starting after it does like sasl or ldap? Or maybe a database connection? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!