two lots of dovecot files

[mick crane]

On 2019-03-04 17:25, Felix Zielcke via dovecot wrote:
> 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
Ah right, I think I've been changing the /usr/share files.

thanks.
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