[HowTo] Replace courier with dovecot

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noel Wrote:I figured out that makeuserdb is no longer present on my system. Hence, it's part of courier and according to the wiki 13. Remove courier packages... it has been deleted too. The solution for me was to reinstall courier.

You probably purged all the files (/etc/courier/* ) or removed also courier-authlib-userdb that is the only required package to be in your system

Quote:Apart that, with dovecot i am not able to receive emails, maillog says "unknown user". I tried quite a lot of things and settings but nothing worked. I'm about to give up and remove dovecot.

If you enable debugging in dovecot, you'll get a really useful output, here you can find the parameters to enable it.