On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 07:12, David Mehler via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to get Dovecot going on my system. It's a FreeBSD
12.0-RELEASE system and it's running dovecot 2.3 via ports in a jail.
I'm getting the same error message(s) as in this bug report, which has
been marked as closed:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225078

Dovecot is not starting at all in this jail when starting with service
dovecot start. A service dovecot status also reveals the error message
about /var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, but a doveconf -n does not
reveal any configuration file issues. I did put a symlink in
/var/run/dovecot to /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, this did not
correct the issue.

Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.

Hi David,

Your problem must be something to do with your jails on FreeBSD, IMHO.
The FreeBSD port maintainer (Larry Rosenman) is here.
Perhaps he'll be willing to help troubleshoot the jail issue.


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