[Dovecot] Desperately need help ! a default dovecot.conf and/or Ubuntu 11.10 postfix/dovecot server configuration issue!

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-03-02 2:33 AM, D Chen <dchenusa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> When ungraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, dovecot can't start
> successfully with lots of errors i.e. "dovecot: doveconf: Warning:
> ... 'imaps' protocol is no longer necessary, remove it"...
>
> At any rate, I want to setup a postfix(MTA)/dovecot(MDA) servers on
> Ubuntu 11.10, by following the Postfix installation and configuration
> instruction in Ubuntu Serverguide, in "1.4 Configuring SASL" section
> on page 190, after run "sudo apt-get install dovecot-common", it
> requires to edit the section of "auth default" and the "socket
> listen" option...,in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, BUT my
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (only about 4k byes) CAN'T find the "auth
> default" "socket listen" !

Distro specific questions are usually much better asked on the distro 
support lists...

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Best regards,

Charles