# Cant Start IMAPD

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**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [July 6, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-start-imapd/24127 "2013-07-06T15:55:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![kjpease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@kjpease](https://forums.suse.com/u/kjpease)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-start-imapd/24127/1 "2013-07-06T15:55:48Z")

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Running Enterprise Server 11 SP2.  
When I try to start IMAPD I get a message that it is not installed. I tell it to install and it says it can’t. The software manager says it is installed. What do I do to make this work.

Kevin Pease

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-start-imapd/24127/2 "2013-07-08T12:32:18Z")

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Hi Kevin,

could you please show us some cut’n paste of the output of the following, run as root in a console:

- “rpm -qi cyrus-imapd”
- if the above says that it isn’t installed, then “zypper in cyrus-imapd”
- then “rccyrus start”

Regards,  
Jens

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**Author:** ![kjpease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@kjpease](https://forums.suse.com/u/kjpease)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-start-imapd/24127/3 "2013-07-13T16:06:51Z")

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[QUOTE=jmozdzen;14325]Hi Kevin,

could you please show us some cut’n paste of the output of the following, run as root in a console:

- “rpm -qi cyrus-imapd”
- if the above says that it isn’t installed, then “zypper in cyrus-imapd”
- then “rccyrus start”

Regards,  
Jens[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the help I have since given up and installed scientific linux which also has problems with IMAP. I have never had that problem with slackware however slackware is also pretty hard to setup at times. So with that information I may reboot this machine running suse and try again. If I can get the email system working properly I will use SUSE on this server. The problem is I cant leave this thing not working for long periods of time since it is my main mail server for the MM1001 domain.

Kevin Pease