Today I checked HestiaCP on my Hostwinds server and realized that it has been upgraded automatically as the Hestia theme and log appeared to be different from before. I clicked a few buttons and links to check around. Since I noticed that I could not receive email at an email address for a site on the server, I cliked on the Server section to check if all services were working OK. Indeed, the dovecot service was not running. So I tried to restart the service, only to find that I could not restart it!
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com systemd[1]: Starting Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server…
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com dovecot[31406]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 5: ssl_cert: Can’t open file
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=89
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 20 16:57:52 svr1.selfwebhosting.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Well, dovecot can run and is running, but no website is working in receiving email via imap/pop3. The error message is something like this:
Sending of password for user [email protected] did not succeed. Mail server mail.mydomain.com responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information