Dovecot 2.3 error, FreeBSD 12 in a jail

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 07:12, David Mehler via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get Dovecot going on my system. It's a FreeBSD
> 12.0-RELEASE system and it's running dovecot 2.3 via ports in a jail.
> I'm getting the same error message(s) as in this bug report, which has
> been marked as closed:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225078
>
> Dovecot is not starting at all in this jail when starting with service
> dovecot start. A service dovecot status also reveals the error message
> about /var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, but a doveconf -n does not
> reveal any configuration file issues. I did put a symlink in
> /var/run/dovecot to /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, this did not
> correct the issue.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>

Hi David,

Your problem must be something to do with your jails on FreeBSD, IMHO.
The FreeBSD port maintainer (Larry Rosenman) is here.
Perhaps he'll be willing to help troubleshoot the jail issue.


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