Gentoo Headaches - Courier IMAP won't start

I love Gentoo but it can be a serious pain from time to time, like right now! I just ran into an issue that was caused by an init script gone awry, which was preventing courier-imapd and courier-pop3d from starting. Grr.

For those who may run into the same issues:

        checkconfig || return 1
        ebegin "Starting courier-pop3d"
        /usr/bin/env - /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-pop3d.rc                 --pidfile $PIDFILE
        eend $?

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