Thank you for your reply. Yes, you're right. I should not have called it an upgrade since I actually removed dovecot 1.2.9 completely and installed the dovecot 2.0.17 from the source. Later, I mucked up the init file because I still used the old version one. I'm sorry about this.
I remember I tried to upgrade by running doveconf -n -c dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf, I got an error message saying doveconf: command not found. Then, I tried to google it to find solutions but to no avail. This is why I decided to install it from scratch. Thank you for your help ________________________________ From: /dev/rob0 <r...@gmx.co.uk> To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2012 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] could not start dovecot - unknown section type On Wednesday 11 January 2012 20:30:49 Daminto Lie wrote: > I was wondering if I could get some help with the following error > when trying to start dovecot service on Ubuntu Server 10.04. > > The error message is as follows > > * Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server > dovecot > > Error: Error in configuration file > /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 15: Unknown section type > Fatal: Invalid configuration in > /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf [fail] > > > I have just managed to upgrade it from 1.2.19 to 2.0.17. Then, I > tried to start the dovecot by running the command > > > $ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start > > And I received the above message. It would seem that you did not upgrade the init script, and the old one is reading the config file and expecting a different format. You used source to upgrade, which means you did not "upgrade" in the conventional sense -- you installed new software. Either fix the script or run without it: dovecot start See: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource http://wiki2.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot > Below is the configuration for dovecot.conf snip -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject: