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I have installed dovecot but the service is not running. I have verified using ps -A | grep dovecot and service dovecot status The test says : dovecot stop/waiting

In the /var/log/mail.err and .log I see:

localhost dovecot: master: **Fatal**: service(imap) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/imap) failed: No such file or directory

When I grep through the configs in (/etc/dovecot) I find no such config.

Environment notes:

  1. postfix service is running and my setup is a Postfix + Dovecot + SASLdAuth (using LDAP).
  2. sasldauth is also running independently fine on LDAP. (verified using testsaslauthd)
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    Sounds like Dovecot is simply not installed... or half-installed. The error message clearly indicates that the Dovecot binary is absent, and you have no config file. Commented Apr 6, 2015 at 3:03

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thanks @ Celada, based on your comment it did seem to be a corrupt installation of dovecot. I installed it using sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d and the service is starting fine. Am also able to telnet successfully.

Before I configured this for LDAP via SASL it was working, so I assumed I messed some configuration. For some reason the root cause was the dovecot install ended up being corrupted.

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