[Dovecot] Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 --> dovecot no longer working

Rob Frohne frohro at wallawalla.edu
Mon Jun 14 18:20:37 EEST 2010


The old dovecot.conf file isn't compatible with the new dovecot.  I 
found it easier to just read through the dovecot.conf and edit it 
appropriately.  I had the same problem, but it appears to be working for 
me now.

Rob

On 06/14/2010 07:48 AM, Pascal Volk wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 03:41 PM HenkR wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Last year I installed dovecot on my Ubuntu V9 system 64 bit system. I use it
>> to store emails from several clients in the LAN using IMAP.
>>
>> Last week I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. Now Dovecot is no longer working. It
>> started with messages about sieve, so I disabled sieve in the configuration
>> file (did not use it in the past, don't know what it is).
>>
>> Dovecot can now be started without errors or warnings, but I cannot connect
>> in the client. I get a message saying "could not connect to server:
>> connection refused".
>>
>> Can anybody help?
>>      
> Yes, the fine documentation.
> 	file:///usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/README.Debian
> 	http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2
>
> If you are unable to solve your problems, please include `dovecot -n`
> output in your reply.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>    

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Walla Walla University
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