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Dovecot Mail Service In Linux – Start, Stop, Restart, Reload, Status, Enable

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems.

  • Start: 
    service dovecot start

    or

    systemctl start dovecot
  • Stop: 
    service dovecot stop

    or

    systemctl stop dovecot
  • Restart: 
    service dovecot restart

    or

    systemctl restart dovecot
  • Reload: 
    service dovecot reload

    or

    systemctl reload dovecot
  • Status: 
    service dovecot status

    or

    systemctl status dovecot
  • Enable Dovecot Mail Service on Boot 
    chkconfig dovecot on

    or

    systemctl enable dovecot
  • Dovecot default configuration file location 
    vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

 

 

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The service ‘exim’ on server xxx is currently down

Rebuild your exim.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update
./build set exim yes
./build set eximconf yes
./build set eximconf_release 4.5
./build set spamassassin yes
./build update
./build exim
./build exim_conf

Start, stop and restart the Exim mail server

Start Services:

/etc/init.d/exim start

or

service exim start

Stop Services:

/etc/init.d/exim stop

or

service exim stop

Restart Services

/etc/init.d/exim restart

or

service exim restart

Status of Exim service:

/etc/init.d/exim status

or

service exim status

or

systemctl status exim.service

Edit exim conf

vi /etc/exim.conf

 

Helpfiles for Exim

https://help.directadmin.com/?topic=17

 

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Fdisk command line in Linux to help to manage partitions

fdisk command line utility is used to view and manage hard disks and partitions on Linux systems.

  • Commonly used fdisk commands. 
    n – Create partition
p – print partition table
d – delete a partition
q – exit without saving the changes
w – write the changes and exit.
  • Display disk cylinders | View all existing disk partitions | command to list the partitions | View all Disk Partitions in Linux | List Partitions 
    fdisk -l
  • View partitions of a specific hard disk (for example, vda) 
    fdisk -l /dev/vda
  • To get more information detailed and size readable by human of a specific hard disk. 
    partx -s /dev/vda
  • Delete a hard disk partition
    If you would like to combine several partitions (for example, /dev/vda2 and /dev/vda3) into a single disk partition, you have to first delete all those individual partitions, as shown below.

    fdisk /dev/vda

    Then

    Command (m for help): p

    Then

    Command (m for help): d

    Then

    Partition number (1-5): 3

    Then

    Command (m for help): d

    Then

    Partition number (1-5): 2

    Then

    Command (m for help): w
  • Create a new disk partition 
    fdisk /dev/sda
    Command (m for help): n