Dovecot: Unknown protocol: imaps

Came across this weird bug when upgrading a system through Weezy -> Jessie -> Stretch today. A server was running dovecot with imaps. After the upgrade, it was no longer responding on port 993.

After some digging around, i found out that the issue was located in 10-ssl.conf:

ssl = no

You can go ahead and change that setting to ssl = required and have another look at the various settings in the file.

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Fixing Dovecot IMAPS failures after a Debian upgrade by correcting SSL configuration.

By Daniel Akulenok, 2017-09-18