Courier IMAP won't start
 

My Ubuntu server is configured with this tutorial.

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...ubuntu-7.10-p3

Last night, I performed an

It appears that authmysql was upgraded as a result. This morning, it has come to my attention that Courier-IMAP is not working. When I check the listening services using netstat, the only one in the list is courier-pop. The following are all missing: courier-imap, courier-imap-ssl, courier-pop-ssl.

If I execute /etc/init.d/ on any of the missing services, I don't get any kind of confirmation that they restart, stop, start, fail, etc.

Any ideas on what I can do to get IMAP working again? My users are already complaining that Squirrelmail doesn't work due to the IMAP service not running.

Thanks.

Any errors in your logs?

[solved]
 

No, there was nothing in the logs.

I did figure out what the problem was though and how to fix it. I browsed to the /etc/init.d/ folder and then typed ls -l. I noticed that of all the files in that directory, the three services that were giving me problems all had a file size of zero bytes.

I opened each of them up and confirmed that they were empty. I can only believe that something during the apt-get upgrade caused them to be overwritten with empty files.

For each service that wasn't working (courier-imap, courier-imap-ssl, and courier-pop-ssl) I typed apt-get remove --purge [service name] and then did a reinstall. I then checked that the file in /etc/init.d/ was no longer empty, which they weren't. I performed a restart of each service and did some testing on the IMAP server and everything worked as intended.

I posted it all here just in case someone runs across the same problem down the road.

Thanks.