The systemd unit does not specify that dovecot should be started after
remote-fs.target (in after= clause). This is in contrast to the init.d
script, which does specify it should wait for $remote_fs.

Most other similar packages (exim4, apache, greylistd) do wait on
remote-fs.target.

I have checked the package in buster and it is also affected.


Hamish

The effect of this of course that is dovecot doesn't start if its
configuration depends on files on a remote file system.

Dear Maintainer,
We have home directories mounted via Autofs from an NFS directory on another
machine.  After a reboot, mailboxes in ~/Mail are not accessible, because
dovecot starts before autofs.  The systemd unit should wait until all
the filesystems dovecot relies on are available.

Peter C