Am Montag, den 04.03.2019, 15:27 +0000 schrieb mick crane via dovecot:
hello is debian buster I have 2 sets of dovecot files, I don't know why. one in /etc/dovecot and one in /usr/share/dovecot they are not links they are actual files. if I rename /etc/dovecot and restart service then I get connection refused when use roundcube. Some time ago my roundcube installation stopped working properly for the web configuration options. Should I have these 2 directories or just want the one ? If want only one it's likely then that I configure wrong file with same name when I thought my ssl certificate has expired. Is OK to delete /etc/dovecot and check configuration in /usr/share/dovecot ?
Hi,
that's just the Debian packaging. In /usr/share/dovecot are the original unmodified files for reference. They're not used at all for the running dovecot. The active ones, which you need to modify and get used by dovecot are in /etc/dovecot. There's no point to delete the files in /usr/share/dovecot because on the next update of the dovecot packages they get installed again.
Regards Felix