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[alvin]

hi josh

> Try turning off Apparmor.  When I did the same OpenSuSE upgrade, 
> Apparmor messed up my dovecot installation with similar errors.  I 
> disabled Apparmor and the permissions issues disappeared.  BTW, I gave 
> up trying to re-configure Apparmor and have left it disabled with no 
> issues.

i also do periodic rolling updates from suse-11.x to 12.x to 13.x 
on the same server and now just run suse-factory and need to
tweek some apps/settings

in your case, i'd also check suse iptables rules and also maybe
it's an issue with /etc/init.d vs systemctl 

systemctl enable dovecot && systemctl restart dovecot

---> what is the output of systemctl status doveoct

pixie dust
alvin
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> On 27/07/2015 9:32 PM, josh schooler wrote:
> > both of my other servers its owned by exim, the permissions in the other two servers are 644, and dovecot starts just fine on those, I don't know what happened I updated my server from opensuse 12.1 to 13.2 and now dovecot is refusing to start.