Duh. I thought I'd tried that and just found that it killed the process...indeed it does the job of refreshing. Sorry.

Charles Marcus wrote:

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If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?

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kill -HUP <pid>

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killall -HUP dovecot

Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot?

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
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