[Dovecot] Dovecot not delivering mail.

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 14:15 +0100, Thomas Wolf wrote:

> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> > On 5.1.2010, at 13.55, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > 
> >> In other words, would you really have to remember to run dovecot -n -c
> >> per your example above?
> >>
> >> I ask because I've never used it with a config file in a non-default
> >> location.
> >>
> >> If this is correct, I would consider it a bug - dovecot -n should know
> >> which config file it is using, and outout accordingly.
> > 
> > How would it know what config file Dovecot is using? The config file needs to be read before it even knows where the base_dir is. 
>  > What if there are multiple Dovecots running? The main problem
>  > here is that Ubuntu for some reason decided to use dovecot-postfix.conf
>  > instead of the default dovecot.conf..
> 
> Depends on the package that is installed:
> 
> tw at mail2:~$ apt-cache search dovecot
> dovecot-common - secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
> dovecot-dev - header files for the dovecot mail server
> dovecot-imapd - secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
> dovecot-pop3d - secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
> dovecot-postfix - full mail server stack provided by Ubuntu server team
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thomas
> 


Then complain to ubuntu, how is it Timo's problem they screwed, no,
rooted it to hell and back again.


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SSA Noel Butler
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