IMAP Failure

I've had a IMAP failure for the past week and I can't seem to figure out whats the problem..

root@host1 [/]# find / -name imap
/home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/php-4.3.3/ext/imap
/var/run/chkservd/imap
/etc/xinetd.d/imap
/etc/pam.d/imap
/etc/chkserv.d/imap
/usr/share/doc/nss_ldap-189/pam.d/imap
/usr/include/imap
/usr/local/cpanel/etc/imap

I know that /etc/xinetd.d/imap is the script for it
and that shows

service imap
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/imapd
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += HOST
disable = no
}

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when I try to start the service within cpanel I get

Waiting for imap to restart.... . . . . . . . . . . finished.

imap status

imap has failed, please contact the sysadmin.

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Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated..
If not I'm going to just remove all of imap stuff and do

/scripts/upcp ------and mybe that might work ??

Thanks Guys..

 

I figured it all out.. I did alot so its hard to remember what really fixed the problem but what you listed wasn't the problem. I do think I fixed it because I changed the direct path for the imapd server then restarted imap and that didn't work but when I restarted exintd then it did work. dunno why but it did.