Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi:

It anyway looks to me like any changes done to dovecot.conf get ignored, so it most likely isn't reading the expected config file. If dovecot isn't using the default config file, it's been given -c parameter. Does ps show dovecot process with -c pointing to different config file?

No, but I found something relevant. I was operating under the mistaken assumption that dovecot was an inetd plugin, the way imap servers usually are. It isn't, which means dovecot.conf is not reread as often as I thought.

I need to redo my diagnostics with more dovecot restarts. Is there an incantation analogous to "postfix reload"?

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