Dovecot

Dovecot 2.4.2 upgrade

Dovecot recently released version 2.4.2 which required some changes to the configuration file (from version 2.3.x).

I use Dovecot as a personal, local IMAP server which pulls from the corporate Outlook server so I can maintain a local archive not subject to any quota constraints.

As I use Arch Linux and mindlessly update weekly, I was puzzled when Thunderbird suddenly stopped working.

My Dovecot server is local for me only, insecure and hence my configuration file is relatively simple.

fixing Dovecot stats writer permissions

I tend to switch Linux distributions quite often. Consequently, I tend to have this process down to a fine art and it doesn’t take me that long. The most time consuming element is ensuring the necessary backups are in place.

However, you normally find some package or configuration option you forgot about and my recent switch from Arch Linux to Fedora 29 and back again unearthed a strange problem with the Dovecot IMAP server I hadn’t encountered before.