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Dovecot: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: protocols: Unknown protocol: sieve

By   •   Updated: May 26, 2023

1.0 Error: While configuring the Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent, the Dovecot server would not start and the following error messages were printed. $ sudo systemctl start dovecot Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status dovecot.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details. $ systemctl status dovecot.service ● dovecot.service – …

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Dovecot: imap Error: open (/var/mail/username) failed

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While configuring mail on a Ubuntu Linux server running the Postfix mail server and Dovecot IMAP server, the following errors were observed in the mail log files, dovecot: imap(user1): Error: open(/var/mail/user1) failed: Permission denied (euid=1002(user1) egid=1002(user1) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we’re not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) dovecot: imap(user1): Error: Failed to …

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