[Dovecot] How to restart DOVECOT without rebooting

[William Blunn]

On 25/05/2010 15:20, Alexander wrote:
> How can one reload Dovecot without rebooting?

You have "restart" in your subject line but "reload" in your messag; 
I'll answer for both cases.

To restart Dovecot, you could probably do:

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

To reload Dovecot, you could probably do:

/etc/init.d/dovecot reload

Some systems might let you do:

service dovecot restart
service dovecot reload

Regards,

Bill