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<p>Greetings,</p>
<p> I installed Dovecot 2.3.10 on my Centos 7.7.1908 server, however
it fails startup. This is a fresh/default install, meaning all the
configs are default, downloaded from the dovecot.repo. <br>
</p>
<p>Here is my PasteBin: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs">https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs</a></p>
<div class="de1">### Error Log, copied from Journalctl print out ###</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 systemd[1]: Started
Session 955 of user root.</div>
<div class="de2">Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 CROND[8057]: (root) CMD
(/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Registered
Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus
name :1.2058 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback],
object path /org/freedesktop/Polic</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Starting
One-time Dovecot init service...</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]:
dovecot-init.service: main process exited, code=exited,
status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to
start One-time Dovecot init service.</div>
<div class="de2">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Dependency
failed for Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Job
dovecot.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Unit
dovecot-init.service entered failed state.</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]:
dovecot-init.service failed.</div>
<div class="de1">Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]:
Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203
(system bus name :1.2058, object path
/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale
en_US.UTF-8</div>
<div class="de2">lines 6106-6158/6158 (END)</div>
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<div class="de1">### Linux Server Version ###</div>
<div class="de1">[root@server101 log]# cat /etc/centos-release</div>
<div class="de1">CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)</div>
<div class="de2"> </div>
<div class="de1">### Dovecot Version ###</div>
<div class="de1">Installed Packages</div>
<div class="de1">Name : dovecot</div>
<div class="de1">Arch : x86_64</div>
<div class="de2">Epoch : 2</div>
<div class="de1">Version : 2.3.10</div>
<div class="de1">Release : 2</div>
<div class="de1">Size : 15 M</div>
<div class="de1">Repo : installed</div>
<div class="de2">From repo : dovecot-2.3-latest</div>
<div class="de1">Summary : Secure imap and pop3 server</div>
<div class="de1">URL : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dovecot.org/">http://www.dovecot.org/</a></div>
<div class="de1">License : MIT and LGPLv2</div>
<div class="de1">Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for
Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security</div>
<div class="de2"> : primarily in mind. It also contains
a small POP3 server. It supports mail</div>
<div class="de1"> : in either of maildir or mbox formats.</div>
<div class="de1"> : </div>
<p>
: The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in
their subpackages.</p>
<p>----</p>
<p>Any help or suggestions are appreciated.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Jacob S.<br>
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