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I'm looking for a command able to either restart/reload or if dovecot is not running, starting Dovecot to activate changed configuration triggered by external, non-interactive tool.
frlan
Posted 2016-05-11T16:09:37.367
Reputation: 666
How to restart or reload Dovecot via doveadm
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/451406/where-did-etc-init-d-dovecot-go-in-14-04 tells:
doveadm reload - in 14.04 the initscript was removed for not understandable reasons.
sjas
Posted 2016-05-11T16:09:37.367
Reputation: 323
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When dovecot has been installed some OS-specific shell-scripts are installed too. Most unix-like OSes have startup script that can accept an argument like start|stop|restart|reload. For linuxes that script usually reside in the /etc/init.d/ catalog. Find it and look inside for further ideas.
Kondybas
Posted 2016-05-11T16:09:37.367
Reputation: 499
Ubuntu 14.04 is not having these. – frlan – 2016-05-11T19:33:15.050
1sudo service dovecot restart should be proper way for ubuntu. – Kondybas – 2016-05-11T19:36:35.313
Should, but not doing. If's not running it fails. – frlan – 2016-05-12T07:36:31.910
This is really a comment and not an answer to the original question. – DavidPostill – 2017-06-01T11:55:19.680