dovecot - May 2016 - Reloading dovecot and postfix after updates

Recently someone used webmin to update dovecot, which went fine. However, after
the update no one could login to the mail server because of the mismatch in the
versions between what was installed and what postfix was expecting.

Other that bapping the person on the head and saying ?don?t do that? is there
anyway to force a reload of postfix after dovecot reloads? Like adding a postfix
reload to the dovecot rc.d script or someway of linking them so that if either
version changes they both get reloaded?

(I don?t even use webmin myself, so maybe it?s even possible through it?)

I mean, it?s unlikely to happen again at this point, but still? 

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"...and Digby considered how much he liked salt..."

> On May 17, 2016 at 9:26 PM "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Recently someone used webmin to update dovecot, which went fine. However,
after the update no one could login to the mail server because of the mismatch
in the versions between what was installed and what postfix was expecting.
> 
> Other that bapping the person on the head and saying ?don?t do that? is
there anyway to force a reload of postfix after dovecot reloads? Like adding a
postfix reload to the dovecot rc.d script or someway of linking them so that if
either version changes they both get reloaded?
> 
> (I don?t even use webmin myself, so maybe it?s even possible through it?)
> 
> I mean, it?s unlikely to happen again at this point, but still? 
> 
> -- 
> "...and Digby considered how much he liked salt..."
This sounds very local requirement. You should be able to do the required
changes in postfix rc file.

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Aki Tuomi