I ran into the same issue recently and the solution turned out to do an
interation of
dovecot -n
and installing required packages until the above command ran without
complaints. In the end I had to install all of the following
ii dovecot-common 1:2.0.19-0ubuntu2.2
Many thanks! Debug output very nice
$ sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n
> dovecot-new.conf
doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:25: 'imaps'
protocol is no longer necess
Mirza, as Costas suggests, the problem here was the config file.
The point about the logging of job output in upstart is well known.
Hopefully in 11.10 we will bring a new Upstart feature in to play that
will log job output automatically.
Closing bug report as Invalid, since there is nothing for
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I had the same problem with newly installed 11.04. The problem for me
was related to installing dovecot-common without dovecot-imapd (or other
protocol support). Enabling the protocols in dovecot.conf without the
support libraries causes the error. This is evident when trying to run
dovecot directl
