[OpenIndiana-discuss] complaint about dovecot in sfe IPS not starting.

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Dovecot actually does start, you just need to set up a few things first:
A proper conf file tree, and any file or directory referenced by that 
file tree, must needs be exist, and be populated appropriately.

To get the dovecot service online w/o complaint (mind you, it still 
won't do anything useful) you could

#!/bin/sh/of/yer/choice
pfexec mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs
pfexec mkdir /etc/ssl/private
cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config
pfexec cp -p -R conf.d/ dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/
# doublecheck that the file dovecot.conf and the directory conf.d are 
actually there
# in /etc/dovecot at this point
# If they are, do:
echo "type return to continue"
read

pfexec sh mkcert.sh
pfexec svcadm enable dovecot

# running
svcs -x dovecot
# should now show dovecot to be online. Look in the log file indicated
# in the svcs -x report, otherwise

# The next reasonable step is

pfexec svcadm disable dovecot

# and read all the docs and look around the internet for a good HOWTO 
for the combination of
# dovecot and postfix (or sendmail or exim or something) and some 
mailstore and
# userauthorisation method and configure the whole thing.

# I don't (yet) think openindiana->dovecot is dysfunctional, it's just 
very undocumented.




On 2013-02-24 13:00, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:35:38 +0600
> From: Dmitry Kozhinov<dima at desktopfay.com>
> To:openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Webmin Solaris package for Webmin
> 	1.620 on Openindiana?
> Message-ID:<5128D3BA.1010206 at desktopfay.com>
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> I have not tried Webmin, but I would like to share a poor experience
> with some OI packages.
>
> Dovecot service refuses to start after install, falls into maintenance
> mode. I had to install Dovecot from OpenCSW.
>
> Seems like OI project is lacking manpower, and I understand why Alasdair
> has resigned:(
>