[Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* David Ford <david at blue-labs.org>:
>  what does strace -s 1024 ... yield?

munmap(0xb73d9000, 528384)              = 0
execve("/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", ["/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", "-F"], [/* 244 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)
write(2, "doveconf: Fatal: execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long\n", 84doveconf: Fatal:
execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long
) = 84
exit_group(89)                          = ?

According to the execve man page, E2BIG means:

E2BIG
The total number of bytes in the environment (envp) and argument list
(argv) is too large.

argv is not too large. So it must be the environment.
# set |wc
     52      66    1186
     
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