Many thanks to Alexander, Richard, Jonathan and m.roth The Magic incandation ! portrelease dovecot service cyrus-imapd restart [root at maui:/etc/named]$ cat /etc/portreserve/dovecot imap imaps pop3 pop3s My total ignorance of portrelease/portreserve has been a bit of a problem! Now to fix it permanently and get evolution back in one piece But why was cyrus able to use imap, pop3 & pop3S but not imaps? John !This showe it up! -------------------------------------------------------------------- > That limits the listener to bind to only the specific IP Yes - that made it easy to tell if imapd was running on 148.197.29.5 by just doing ps -ef|grep cyrus -------------------------------------------------------------------- > What gets being logged at exactly that point? cyrus-imapd logs information at > service start. > [root at maui:/var/log]$ cat maillog just after running service cyrus-imapd restart Aug 12 21:33:17 maui cvt_cyrusdb[2753]: skiplist: checkpointed /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.skiplist (630 records, 64416 bytes) in 0 seconds Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: starting txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 ... maybe 200 lines like this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui cvt_cyrusdb[3352]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483651 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: retrying with 4096 (current max) Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: process started Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3385]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3385]: recovering cyrus databases Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3385]: skiplist: checkpointed /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (9 records, 756 bytes) in 0 seconds Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3385]: skiplist: checkpointed /var/lib/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3385]: done recovering cyrus databases Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3387]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/idled Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address already in use !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: unable to setsocketopt(IP_TOS): Operation not supported Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: ready for work Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3389]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3392]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/pop3d Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: checkpointing cyrus databases Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3390]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3391]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/pop3d Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3393]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/lmtpd Aug 12 21:33:19 maui lmtpunix[3393]: executed Aug 12 21:33:19 maui pop3s[3392]: executed Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving database file: /var/lib/imap/annotations.db Aug 12 21:33:19 maui imap[3390]: executed Aug 12 21:33:19 maui pop3[3391]: executed Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving database file: /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui ctl_cyrusdb[3389]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3384]: process 3389 exited, status 0 Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3394]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Aug 12 21:33:19 maui master[3395]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/pop3d Aug 12 21:33:19 maui pop3[3395]: executed Aug 12 21:33:19 maui imap[3394]: executed [root at maui:/var/log]$ -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please provide the content of /etc/imapd.conf. > [root at maui:/etc/named]$ cat /etc/imapd.conf configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail hashimapspool: true sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt # uncomment this if you're operating in a DSCP environment (RFC-4594) # qosmarking: af13 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > You configured the imaps service not to bind to localhost. > Yes - that made it easy to tell if imapd was running on 148.197.29.5 by just doing ps -ef|grep cyrus -------------------------------------------------------------------- > What did you configure in your DNS and set in /etc/hosts? Please provide last > one. > I am running a DNS server on maui that is updated by DHCP as required The zone file looks like this at the moment IPs between range 148.197.29.129 148.197.29.253 ; are dynamic, the rest are fixed [root at maui:/var/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic]$ cat jaa.org.uk.zone $ORIGIN . $TTL 86400 ; 1 day jaa.org.uk IN SOA maui.jaa.org.uk. ja.jaa.org.uk. ( 200714349 ; serial 7200 ; refresh (2 hours) 300 ; retry (5 minutes) 604800 ; expire (1 week) 60 ; minimum (1 minute) ) NS maui.jaa.org.uk. MX 10 maui.jaa.org.uk. $ORIGIN jaa.org.uk. $TTL 43200 ; 12 hours android-54f4af51ba23308b A 148.197.29.251 TXT "31d805ae3efb12d6a37351a28b581c9142" $TTL 86400 ; 1 day draytek A 148.197.29.254 $TTL 43200 ; 12 hours ferrari A 148.197.29.183 TXT "310fc27c6e505544502e0a12fb2192d64a" $TTL 86400 ; 1 day maui A 148.197.29.5 $TTL 43200 ; 12 hours paxos A 148.197.29.159 TXT "315dff374b9faae33e5457b537bb671bd9" $TTL 86400 ; 1 day zyxel A 148.197.29.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- [root at maui:/etc/named]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost maui #127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 maui.jaa.org.uk maui localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 148.197.29.5 maui.jaa.org.uk maui