Upgrading a mail server from Debian Wheezy (7) to Debian Jessie (8), the following errors were observed in the mail.error log:
dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 143, but it’s not configured in Dovecot. Closing. dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 993, but it’s not configured in Dovecot. Closing
Looking for solutions, I found two pages talking about it:
https://sowhatisthesolution.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/upgrading-dovecot-debian-wheezy-to-jessie/ (local archive)
http://appbead.com/blog/fix-errors-reported-in-syslog-for-debian-8-jessie.html (local archive)
Seeing as this install of dovecot wasn’t supposed to be started by socket connections, but rather run all the time, and that it wasn’t actually listening to POP3 and IMAP, but rather their SSL equivalents, we simply disabled the dovecot.socket config, as suggested by the first of the two links:
# systemctl disable dovecot.socket Removed symlink to /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dovecot.socket.
7 Comments
Just saved my day. I had the exact same issue. Thanks!
Thanks for this fix! I can’t understand why someone though that such a configuration was a good idea for an IMAP server.
Yes, what a weird thing.
Thanks for the tip.
Running this seems to have no effect..
still have the messages after restarting the server
and systemctl disable dovecot.socket
gave no message after it was run…
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
CB
It worked for me. Thanks !
Thanks! It works 🙂
Quick fix, thanks!