[Dovecot] Dovecote does'nt start - no log ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 17:47 +0100, Jean-Francois wrote:
> dovecot: Feb 05 17:39:37 Error: auth(default): mysql: Missing value in connect 
> string: user
..
> and here the dovecot-sql.conf
..
> connect = host=/var/www/htdocs/local/sql/mysql.sock dbname=mail user=user 

The error message means that the above connect string doesn't contain
user=. But obviously it does above. So either you're looking at wrong
file, or there's something else weird going on.

First of all check dovecot -n output. Does it show passdb sql with args
value pointing to the same dovecot-sql.conf file as you're looking at?

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