Problems with new installation

Aki Tuomi
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:00:43 -0000

On 22.10.2019 8.46, Steve Matzura via dovecot wrote:
> I had Dovecot running very well on Ubuntu 14.04. Then I decided that
> since That version of Ubuntu was now out of support, I would build a
> new server on 18.04, which has been done.
>
>
> I thought I could take the old dovecot.conf and everything in conf.d
> that had been customized and drop it in place, and everything would
> just work. That has proven not to be correct. The files that had been
> edited were the main /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, and in conf.d,
> 10-master.conf, 10-ssl.conf, and 10-mail.conf. I have restored the
> original package-supplied versions of these files and restarted
> Dovecot, but still no one can connect. Here's my configuration, with
> the version number at the top:
>
>
> # 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.21 (92477967)
> # OS: Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> namespace inbox {
> ? inbox = yes
> ? location > ? mailbox Drafts {
> ??? special_use = \Drafts
> ? }
> ? mailbox Junk {
> ??? special_use = \Junk
> ? }
> ? mailbox Sent {
> ??? special_use = \Sent
> ? }
> ? mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> ??? special_use = \Sent
> ? }
> ? mailbox Trash {
> ??? special_use = \Trash
> ? }
> ? prefix > }
> passdb {
> ? driver = pam
> }
> protocols = " imap lmtp"
> userdb {
> ? driver = passwd
> }
> verbose_ssl = yes
>
>
>
You are missing ssl_cert and ssl_key setting at least.. Also, you should
probably look at your logs.

Aki