24 Oct
2025
24 Oct
'25
5:27 p.m.
True, the migration guide recommendation has no “section name” in its snippet, which is an syntax error.
The only section I found in the docs that describes inet_listener says this:
inet_listeners name Section name of this listener. It is meant to be descriptive for humans (e.g. imap, imaps).
That sounds like the “descriptive name” could be anything I choose, but in fact the name actually has to be one of a specific set of values, and sadly, that set is never enumerated anywhere. In this particular context (the doveadm service), it has to be the specific value you used, or the service won’t work.
IMHO, yet another doc bug.
Anyway, thanks, I’ll give that a try.