I upgraded my mailserver from Squeeze to Wheezy the other day, I was running Dovecot 1, but Wheezy only has Dovecot 2. It tried to upgrade my installation, but this went terribly wrong and it broke the mailserver. Below I will share what errors I encountered and how to fix them:
After running
aptitude upgrade
aptitude failed on installing dovecot-core. To see the error messages you can run:
doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf
It will show you the error messages on which dovecot currently fails. For me this was SSL:
doveconf: Error: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set
I ended up uncommenting the SSL section and setting the correct paths to the certificates. After this came the following error:
[....] Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(auth) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth) failed: No such file or directory failed!
I had a /usr/lib/dovecot/auth file but not a dovecot-auth file. So I created a symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/lib/dovecot/auth /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth
This fixed my issues. After this I did an
aptitude upgrade
and all my problems were fixed.
