Carlos E. R. wrote:
Check again all the logs just after you try to start it. It is known that it has a problem with apparmour, there is a bad profile (reported by several people and a bugzilla). Stop AA temporarily and try again.
Disabling apparmor allowed dovecot to run, but I couldn't connect with it. Here's what's in /var/log/messages with apparmor running: 2013-11-26T21:22:53.737490-05:00 linux systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. 2013-11-26T21:22:53.754062-05:00 linux dovecot[7009]: Fatal: execv(/usr/bin/doveconf) failed: Permission denied 2013-11-26T21:22:53.756725-05:00 linux kernel: [13293.041295] type=1400 audit(1385518973.751:98): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/dovecot" name="/usr/bin/doveconf" pid=7009 comm="dovecot" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=0 ouid=0 2013-11-26T21:22:53.758534-05:00 linux systemd[1]: dovecot.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=84/n/a 2013-11-26T21:22:53.758982-05:00 linux systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org