Package: dovecot-core Version: 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
when the Dovecot configuration contains an `!include` statement with a wildcard that does not match anything, dovecot prints an error and terminates. Expected behaviour: Dovecot processes the configuration as if the `!include` statement was not present. The upstream on-line documentation [0] says on `!include`: > It’s not an error if wildcards don’t result in any matching files. [0] <https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/#including-config-files> Steps to reproduce: mkdir dir printf '%s\n' '!include dir/*.conf' > dovecot.conf dovecot -Fc dovecot.conf doveconf -c dovecot.conf Output of `dovecot -Fc doveconf.conf`: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file dovecot.conf line 1: No matches Output of `doveconf -c dovecot.conf`: # 2.3.21 (47349e2482): dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21 (f6cd4b8e) doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file dovecot.conf line 1: No matches Workaround 1: * Create an empty dummy configuration file in `dir/`. Workaround 2: * Use `!include_try` instead. * Unlike `!include`, this also silently ignores read errors. Possibly related upstream mailing list thread: * <https://dovecot.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/S52QEUHS2T6G3FGAYYXIE32YAP7NYGT2/> * <https://dovecot.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/BUSWILJK4DMCZ3NXWYOEWH2ZR2NTEFLA/> -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dovecot-core depends on: ii adduser 3.137 ii init-system-helpers 1.66 ii libapparmor1 3.0.13-2 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-5.1 ii libc6 2.37-15.1 ii libcap2 1:2.66-5 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.36-4 ii libexttextcat-2.0-0 3.4.7-1 ii libicu72 72.1-4+b1 ii liblua5.4-0 5.4.6-3+b1 ii liblz4-1 1.9.4-2 ii liblzma5 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 ii libpam-runtime 1.5.3-6 ii libpam0g 1.5.3-6 ii libsodium23 1.0.18-1 ii libssl3t64 3.2.1-3 ii libstemmer0d 2.2.0-4+b1 ii libsystemd0 255.4-1+b1 ii libtirpc3t64 1.3.4+ds-1.2 ii libunwind8 1.6.2-3 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-33 ii libzstd1 1.5.5+dfsg2-2 ii openssl 3.2.1-3 ii ssl-cert 1.1.2 ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg-3.1 dovecot-core recommends no packages. Versions of packages dovecot-core suggests: pn dovecot-gssapi <none> pn dovecot-imapd <none> pn dovecot-ldap <none> pn dovecot-lmtpd <none> pn dovecot-managesieved <none> pn dovecot-mysql <none> pn dovecot-pgsql <none> pn dovecot-pop3d <none> pn dovecot-sieve <none> pn dovecot-solr <none> pn dovecot-sqlite <none> pn dovecot-submissiond <none> pn ntp <none> Versions of packages dovecot-core is related to: ii dovecot-core [dovecot-common] 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3+b1 pn dovecot-dev <none> pn dovecot-gssapi <none> pn dovecot-imapd <none> pn dovecot-ldap <none> pn dovecot-lmtpd <none> pn dovecot-managesieved <none> pn dovecot-mysql <none> pn dovecot-pgsql <none> pn dovecot-pop3d <none> pn dovecot-sieve <none> pn dovecot-sqlite <none> -- no debconf information
