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February 2026

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Unexpected Configuration Error `Unknown setting: ssl_server_cert_file`
by David Weingut 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Hello, I upgraded from Debian 12 to 13 and thereby also from dovecot 2.3 to 2.4. Now I am facing a weird error in dovecot. The actual error is the following # doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 22: ssl_server_cert_file : Unknown setting: ssl_server_cert_file The corresponding entry in my config is ssl = yes ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem ssl_server_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem I am sorry if I missed something in the archives but I did not find any similar posts. Is there something I am missing here and what would be further required to debug this? Best, David Hello, I upgraded from Debian 12 to 13 and thereby also from dovecot 2.3 to 2.4. Now I am facing a weird error in dovecot. The actual error is the following # doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 22: ssl_server_cert_file : Unknown setting: ssl_server_cert_file The corresponding entry in my config is ssl = yes ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem ssl_server_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem I am sorry if I missed something in the archives but I did not find any similar posts. Is there something I am missing here and what would be further required to debug this? Best, David

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Compiling Dovecot 2.4 on OpenBSD
by Joel Mawhorter 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

I'm writing to see if anyone has had success compiling Dovecot 2.4 on OpenBSD. I can't seem to find any documentation that lists prerequisites. At the moment, the 2.4.2 source tarball from the Dovecot site does not seem to compile on my OpenBSD 7.8 system and the error message is not very helpful. I'm unsure if this is just a problem of some required package not being installed. If anyone could point me to info to help move forward, I would appreciate that. Joel

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