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This looks like local corruption or misconfiguration, rather than a bug in Ubuntu. In particular it seems that you deleted some dovecot configuration files or directories in /etc/dovecot while the package was still installed, and then tried to upgrade it. You can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community , but please note that the Ubuntu release you are running (14.10 Utopic Unicorn) is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release, reached its end of life in 2015 and is not supported anymore. For these reasons I'm marking this bug as Invalid. If you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New. ** Changed in: dovecot (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1411962 Title: package dovecot-pop3d 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: cp: cannot create regular file ‘/etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf’: No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/+bug/1411962/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
