I just upgraded my server from 8.04 to 8.10 and dovecot has stopped working. I use maildirs in the users home directory and it is complaining that default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir is an unknown setting. Didn't see any warnings about this in apt list changes. Anyone know how to fix this?
Upgrade problem: dovecot will not start.
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I guess the reason I didn't see it in the change log is that it happened way back in 7.04 and I had missed it then. Anyway I discovered the new variable is mail_location = not default_mail_env =