[Dovecot] could someone check my conf files for dovecot and postfix

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue May 10 18:57:57 EEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 19:58 -0700, Trish wrote:
> *>  dovecot -n*
> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
..
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir

This looks ok.

> May  6 20:33:00 craftboard dovecot: IMAP(support.perlygates.com): mail_location: maildir: Unknown setting: mbox

There's no reason this error could come from that above config file. So
I bet your problem is that you installed dovecot-postfix package, and
Ubuntu is actually using /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf (or something
like that) and that config file is broken.




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