Downgrade dovecot to 1.0.10 give me error : mail# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start Starting dovecot. Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 262: Unknown setting: mail_privileged_group Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Find line 262, talk about mail_priveleged_group solution : change mail_privileged_group = mail into mail_extra_groups = mail and start dovecot service. Work 🙂

Recent ports update give old ports that need to update. Dovecot After upgrade to 1.0.13 mail# pkg_info | grep dovecot dovecot-1.0.13      Secure and compact IMAP and POP3 servers I see confirmation from dovecot : Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead Maybe I’m wrong, try […]