{"id":109,"date":"2008-11-04T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-01-12T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T06:52:50","slug":"imap-fatal-listen993-failed-address-already-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Imap: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address alr\n eady in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booted the server the other day and got the message that dovecot can&#8217;t start because listen address 993 was already in use.<\/p>\n<p>Any logins to squirrelmail received an error message. To solve this I run the command<\/p>\n<pre class=\"alt2\" style=\"border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 450px; height: 34px; text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">lsof -i :993<\/pre>\n<p>This will list the application listening on the particular port and you can go ahead and kill it or assign it a different port. Remember to change the port number (993) to whatever port your imap server or whatever program you are troubleshooting is supposed to be listening on.<br \/>\n To start dovecot the command is: <\/p>\n<pre class=\"alt2\" style=\"border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 450px; height: 34px; text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\/etc\/init.d\/dovecot start<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booted the server the other day and got the message that dovecot can&#8217;t start because listen address 993 was already in use. Any logins to squirrelmail received an error message. To solve this I run the command lsof -i :993 This will list the application listening on the particular port and you can go ahead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imap: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address alr<br \/>\n eady in use&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37,35,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}