EMail Service wont Start

[averagehost]

Hello,

I just signed up with a fresh install of PLESK on friday. Not once has the email service been able to start. Even if i try to do it in SSH it wont start. Any suggestions?

SMTP Server (QMail) starts, but IMAP/POP3 Server (Courier-IMAP) wont.

Can I use a different POP3 mail server program with PLESK? I want it integrated so my clients (friends mostly) can add their own email names and what not.

 

[Ales]

No, you cant use another one... It would help if you could tell us exactly what errors do you see when you try to start it and what's in the logs.

 

[zraii]

I have the exact same problem... Brand new install of Plesk 7.5 on linux and the pop3/imap service won't start at all, what log file would even give me a clue as to what's going wrong...i looked at everything in /var/log/

 

[cartoon]

I did a new install today ( Freebsd 5.3) and have run the hotfix and got the same problem.

I found the solution to the problem in this tread http://forum.sw-soft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22091 , that worked for me.

 

[zraii]

That problem described in that thread is pretty much exactly what's going on with me.. except, i can't telnet to 110 at all, the service isn't running at all and it won't start... the things they suggest adding to the file (/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/pop3d on my rh9 linux install) are already in the file at the bottom of it... i restarted plesk and everything... (i didn't change the file anyway so it shouldn't have made a difference)
Anyway, thanks for the pointer to that thread, it looks like the same problem.

 

[cartoon]

The line they suggest add to (/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/pop3d was in my installation too. But the change of the file
/usr/local/psa/rc.d/courier-imap

change
status "$COURIERTCPD"
into:
status "/usr/local/psa/courier-imap/sbin/courierlogger"

did it for me.

 

[sieb@]

What's the log say when you try to start it?