[Dovecot] Connecting to dovecot

[Grant Lowe]

So should I comment out the "mail_location = /var/mail/%u" line?  




----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:53:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Connecting to dovecot

on 9-17-2008 7:48 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
> on 9-17-2008 7:25 AM Grant Lowe spake the following:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've got a brand new dovecot installation.  I'm new to dovecot, so 
>> please be gentle  :-)
>>
>> Anyway,
>> I'm getting some errors when I try to connect to dovecot. I've tried
>> searching the web and haven't been able to find a lot of information. 
>> Here's the config info:
>>
>> # dovecot --version
>> 1.1.2
>> # dovecot -n
>> sudo dovecot -n
>> # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
>> ssl_disable: yes
>> disable_plaintext_auth: no
>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
>> login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> mail_location: /var/mail/%u
> You need to fix your mail location setting;
> see http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
> 
>> auth default:
>>   verbose: yes
>>   passdb:
>>     driver: passwd-file
>>     args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
>>   userdb:
>>     driver: static
>>     args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/%u
> Since you are also setting mail location here with home setting, you are 
> probably resolving to /var/mail/%u/var/mail/%u
Forget this last comment, but the mail location is not set properly.

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