If you’re running a very large dovecot config that takes a long time to load and dovecot won’t start you’re going to see this error: master: Error: service(config): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process In our case we have many certificates to load from the SNI configs. You’ll also see […]

This error can be caused by a few different reasons. In this particular case it’s a Centos 6 server connection to a Microsoft Active Directory 2016 DC. The short version of the story is that even though the FQDN has a valid key in the krb5 keytab it will only properly authenticate using the short […]