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Are you sure Dovecot isn't already running?
What does this show:
ps auxw | grep dovecot
This command should in theory restart it in the case that it is:
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
If that doesn't help, it means another daemons is running that handles IMAP. What we'd need in order to help is the full output of this command:
ps auxw