Dovecot service keeps stopping

[stephensaid]

Hi All,

Dovecot service keeps stopping and of course, emails stop coming in.
How can I check why this is happening? Which logs should I look at?

Please let me know what information you will need to help me out.
I am on Ubuntu 14.04.

[putude]

It happened to me a few months ago.
dovecot was failed to start after done update.
I looked at /etc/dovecot/conf.d/
there are few additional files. I move them all to backup dir I created. So the files at /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ are:
10-auth.conf
10-logging.conf
10-mail.conf
10-master.conf
10-ssl.conf
10-ssl.conf.vst.back
20-imap.conf
20-pop3.conf
auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
then I restart dovecot and it back to normal again. Unfortunately I am using Centos, hopefully can help you.

[Alex Connor]

stephensaid please show the output of

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service dovecot status