Hi,
The OS packges you mention went missing. So it would be the most logical step to find a support forum (mailing list, web forum, bug tracker) for your OS, and post this question there In general, people can help you find out what happened with those packages, and when they were uninstalled. You are talking about dpkg and apt, so a debian mailing list or a forum like askubuntu.com might be the best way to go.
Kind regards,
TomOn 23-07-18 09:30, John Paul Iglesia wrote:
Then how this happened. Can you give me some pointers on how to trace this problem?
Please advise.
Thanks,
paul.tcbc
On 07/23/2018 02:28 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, John Paul Iglesia wrote:
Recently, i had issues on dovecot. All packages of dovecot were installed on my system then suddenly when I checked yesterday the packages for dovecot-pop3d and dovecot-imapd were no longer on the list of app installed.
Because of this dovecot service stop running. I checked the apt history log, term log and even dpkg log, there were no information about removing the packages. It just shown on my apt list the packages were not longer there.
I had to reinstalled these 2 packages just to make dovecot run and for me to be able to receive and send messages.
What do you think is the problem, is it dovecot bug?
Dovecot does not entangle itself with the package management of the system. So: No, it's no Dovecot bug.
-- Steffen Kaiser