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Trouble With Email - Need to Edit /etc/courier/imapd

Posted by yubnub, 05-29-2012, 07:50 AM
Hi, I have been having issues with my email for a while. After trying lots of things I think I have narrowed it down to the fact i am hitting the max number of connections allowed per IP in : /etc/courier/imapd I found a post on how to edit the file, however whilst in the file my keyboard/pc frooze and i had restart. I tried to log back in but now I can not get access to the file to make the edits. I will describe what I am seeing : I log into putty as root user, then type "vi /etc/courier/imapd" i see this ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "/etc/courier/imapd" [New DIRECTORY] I am not to sure of exactly what i need to do at this point, If any one can advise I would be most gratefull, I am a complete newbie to this so "idiot guide" answers would be great! thank you, anthony Last edited by yubnub; 05-29-2012 at 07:55 AM.
Posted by MikeZavatta, 05-29-2012, 06:05 PM
Generally, if you have a file open in vi/vim and you have to power down without saving your changes the original file is saved and only the edits are lost. Can you try to run a located to see if you just opened a new file this time instead of the correct file? Run: find / -name FILENAME where FILENAME is the name of the file.
Posted by net, 05-29-2012, 08:27 PM
Moved > Hosting Security and Technology.
Posted by yubnub, 05-30-2012, 04:55 AM
Hi Mike, Many thanks for your response. I have run the command you mention and it gives me the following response : /usr/bin/imapd /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/imapd /etc/courier-imap/imapd It would seem from this that the file that I was editing in /etc/courier/imapd no longer exists? - can i restore it or edit the values that I was trying to edit some other way? many thanks again, anthony
Posted by MikeZavatta, 05-30-2012, 04:00 PM
Do you have a control panel on your server? If so, what?
Posted by yubnub, 05-30-2012, 04:13 PM
hi mike, running plesk, thanks again, anthony
Posted by MikeZavatta, 05-30-2012, 04:26 PM
You may want to ask your host for a copy of that file or you can try the bootstrapper or cli package installer to see if the file will be replaced by updating using those options.
Posted by yubnub, 05-30-2012, 06:39 PM
hi mike, I logged back in again using putty and it this time brought up the file?!? I was then able to use nano and edit the file as I originally wanted, No idea what was going on! I really am thankfull for your help, best regards, anthony
Posted by MikeZavatta, 05-30-2012, 06:41 PM
Glad you got it worked out Anthony!