[Dovecot] Dovecot not delivering mail.

[Thomas Wolf]

Pascal Volk schrieb:
> On 01/06/2010 02:15 PM Thomas Wolf wrote:
>> …
>> The package "dovecot-postfix" installs and uses dovecot-postfix.conf but
>> unfortunately also puts the default dovecot.conf in /etc/dovecot
>> (driving everyone crazy who blindly follows howtos editing
>> dovecot.conf). Highly recommended to remove/rename dovecot.conf in this
>> configuration.
> 
> And there is big fat warning at the top of the unbuntus's dovecot.conf
> file:
> # ------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------
> 
> # If there's a file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf, which is part of
> # dovecot-postfix package, it will be used instead of dovecot.conf.
> 
> # Keep in mind that, if that file exist, none of the changes in
> # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf will have effect on dovecot's configuration.
> # In that case you should customize /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf.
> 
> # ------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------
> 
> Further more, the file /usr/share/doc/dovecot-postfix/README.Debian
> contains:
> "dovecot's init script checks existance of /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf
> and if that file exists, it reads it instead of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf."
> 
> Sorry, but I really can't understand, why the most unbuntu users seems
> to be unable to read AND understand so simple written documentation. :(
> 

I agree (that's why i wrote "..who *blindly* follows howtos").
Nevertheless, renaming /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf helps troubleshooting
while using dovecot-postfix (forgetting -c when using deliver elsewhere
for example)

Thomas