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Starting dovecot: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already in use

On some servers Dovecot doesn’t start automatically after reboot. That is a fault of the system administrator, but if you need to bring it back working there is a solution, that seems to be effective with all instances of listen() failed. Let’s take we’re trying to start dovecot and getting the following error: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already… Read More »