dovecot - Mar 2012 - Desperately need help ! a default dovecot.conf and/or Ubuntu 11.10 postfix/dovecot server configuration issue!

When ungraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, dovecot can't start successfully
with lots of errors i.e.
"dovecot: doveconf: Warning: ... 'imaps' protocol is no longer
necessary, remove it"...

At any rate, I want to setup a postfix(MTA)/dovecot(MDA) servers on Ubuntu
11.10, by following the Postfix installation and configuration instruction in
Ubuntu Serverguide, in "1.4 Configuring SASL" section on page 190,
after run "sudo apt-get install dovecot-common", it requires to edit
the section of "auth default" and the "socket listen"
option...,in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, BUT my
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (only about 4k byes) CAN'T find the "auth
default" "socket listen" !

I also checked into the /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/dovecot/example-config,
there is a
dovecot.conf, it's also about 4k size, and there is no such "auth
default" or "socket listen" words can be found ! where is the
default dovecot.conf file I can get a copy ?

BTW, there is the dovecot.conf.ucf file (what is this for?) which's about
50k and has the "auth default" and "socket listen" words
there ! what is supposed the size for the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ? i'm
confused!

Thx.

On 2012-03-02 2:33 AM, D Chen <dchenusa at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> When ungraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, dovecot can't start
> successfully with lots of errors i.e. "dovecot: doveconf: Warning:
> ... 'imaps' protocol is no longer necessary, remove it"...
>
> At any rate, I want to setup a postfix(MTA)/dovecot(MDA) servers on
> Ubuntu 11.10, by following the Postfix installation and configuration
> instruction in Ubuntu Serverguide, in "1.4 Configuring SASL"
section
> on page 190, after run "sudo apt-get install dovecot-common", it
> requires to edit the section of "auth default" and the
"socket
> listen" option...,in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, BUT my
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (only about 4k byes) CAN'T find the
"auth
> default" "socket listen" !
Distro specific questions are usually much better asked on the distro 
support lists...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

On 02/03/2012 09:33, D Chen wrote:
use the command dovecot -n to get dovecot settings output and we can try 
to help you a bit.

Regards,
Eliezer
> When ungraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, dovecot can't start
successfully with lots of errors i.e.
> "dovecot: doveconf: Warning: ... 'imaps' protocol is no longer
necessary, remove it"...
>
> At any rate, I want to setup a postfix(MTA)/dovecot(MDA) servers on Ubuntu
11.10, by following the Postfix installation and configuration instruction in
Ubuntu Serverguide, in "1.4 Configuring SASL" section on page 190,
after run "sudo apt-get install dovecot-common", it requires to edit
the section of "auth default" and the "socket listen"
option...,in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, BUT my
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (only about 4k byes) CAN'T find the "auth
default" "socket listen" !
>
> I also checked into the
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/dovecot/example-config, there is a
> dovecot.conf, it's also about 4k size, and there is no such "auth
default" or "socket listen" words can be found ! where is the
default dovecot.conf file I can get a copy ?
>
> BTW, there is the dovecot.conf.ucf file (what is this for?) which's
about 50k and has the "auth default" and "socket listen"
words there ! what is supposed the size for the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ?
i'm confused!
>
> Thx.