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Dovecot-lmtp Connection refused

Issue : Mails are not delivering to Roundcube OR any other webmail and the Logs showing the following error.

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Oct 16 19:27:45 server.example.com postfix/error[30545]: DF7YHSA90: to=<admin@example.com>, relay=none, delay=924, delays=924/0.13/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mail.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp]: Connection refused)

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Cause : “lmtp” protocol not correctly enabled on the server

Fix : Please go the “/etc/dovecot” and search for all the files for the string “protocols”.

Command and Output :

root@ubuntu:/etc/dovecot# grep -irl “protocols”
dovecot.conf
dovecot.conf.orig
conf.d/10-ssl.conf
conf.d/10-ssl.conf.orig

Please make sure that lmtp is enabled /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf as given below.

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protocols = imap lmtp

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Also make sure that there is no duplicate entries added in other files.

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