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[LUG] Fam using the imaps port

 

OK, so I've been running downloading all my email to my server and 
getting it via imap for the past few months. Works great. Except that 
the other day it stopped working. Not quite sure why. Anyhow restarting 
courier-imap fixed it. Well, it would have, except that I then spent 
ages trying to figure out why it wouldn't start properly. It turns out 
that for some reason famd had bound itself to the imaps port. Why on 
earth did it do that?

Failing to remember why famd was running in the first place I stopped 
it, restarted courier-imap, and everything was fine again. Until just 
now, when for some reason I couldn't copy email to the sent folder. 
Looking in my logs I see that courier-imap is complaining about the lack 
of fam, and had been ever since it was restarted. Funny- I'm sure I'd 
sent email before. Anyway I started famd (which didn't complain that 
courier-imap had the imaps port) and everything was fine again. No more 
complaints in the logs.

So:
Firstly, why on earth did famd bind to the imaps port?
Secondly, why on earth did famd bind to the imaps port?

Thirdly, do I really need famd, and if I do, how do I stop it from doing 
that again?

Thanks
Simon

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