[Dovecot] what's wrong with this config file?

Alan McGinlay - SICS alanm at sics.se
Thu Dec 12 14:32:14 EET 2013


On 2013-12-12 13:16, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Jim Reid wrote:
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> I think this is what I configured in dovecot. However when I try to 
> set up a test account, dovecot reports the following error:
> 
> Dec 12 02:22:00 shaun dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jim>, 
> method=CRAM-MD5, rip=10.0.0.1, lip=10.1.1.1, mpid=14874, TLS, 
> session=<8Hy1Ak3t+gDDNulD>
> Dec 12 02:22:00 shaun dovecot: imap(jim): Error: user jim: 
> Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: Duplicate 
> namespace prefix: ""
> 
> See that error and
> 
> # 2.2.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> namespace imapstuff {
>  prefix =
>  type = private
> }
> namespace inbox {
>  prefix =
>  type = private
> }
> 
> Rename imapstuff to inbox, or something.
> 

Uh, isn't it just to add something to one of the prefix lines?

  prefix = whatever

On one of the namespaces should fix the duplicate name (which is an 
empty string on both just now)


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