diff --git a/dovecot.changes b/dovecot.changes
index 374a3bc..6a260ea 100644
--- a/dovecot.changes
+++ b/dovecot.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Dec 24 02:10:16 UTC 2017 - mrueckert@suse.de
+
+- bump recommends to 2.3
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Dec 24 02:07:20 UTC 2017 - mrueckert@suse.de
+
+- copy example config from /usr/share/dovecot/example-config/
+  instead of the documentation directory. (boo#1070871)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Dec 20 11:24:54 UTC 2017 - mrueckert@suse.de
 
diff --git a/dovecot.spec b/dovecot.spec
index 2b41381..b9db3d2 100644
--- a/dovecot.spec
+++ b/dovecot.spec
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ License:        BSD-3-Clause and LGPL-2.1+ and MIT
 Group:          Productivity/Networking/Email/Servers
 Url:            http://www.dovecot.org/
 PreReq:         dovecot-implementation
-Recommends:     dovecot22
+Recommends:     dovecot23
 #!BuildIgnore: dovecot-implementation
 %if %{with systemd}
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(systemd)
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ install -D -m 0644 %{S:9} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/dovecot.socket
 # we fail silently if the dovecot-implementation package is not
 # installed yet. This allows us to break a little build loop between
 # dovecot and dovecotXY.
-if [ ! -e /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -a -e /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot/example-config/dovecot.conf ] ; then
+if [ ! -e %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/dovecot.conf -a -e %{_datadir}/%{name}/example-config/dovecot.conf ] ; then
   # install default config
   echo "Did not find a /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. copying default configuration"
-  cp -na %{_docdir}/%{name}/example-config/* %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/
+  cp -na %{_datadir}/%{name}/example-config/* %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/
   # the chmod breaks the lda. lets use the more open permissions
   #chmod -Rv o= %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/
 fi