Thanks for everyone's input. I was already sudoed to root before running any of the operations so it wasn't that. May have been that --with-storages error I'd made. I tried your config John, with mods for my system and besides having to add the dovecot user/group manually it seems to be running just fine now.
Thanks!
2008/8/10 John and Catherine Allen <allen@vo.lu>:
I also install from source on my Debian system and I keep the configure options in a little script which currently looks like this:
#!/bin/bash #configure flags for compilation compatible with gentoo emerge #john allen #9.5.2005 #modified 19.11.2006 #modified 26.1.2008 for kirtley ./configure
--with-pam
--without-deliver
--with-storages=maildir
--prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot
--localstatedir=/varI can't see any problem with your configure options, so as Charles says maybe there's another dovecot somewhere on your system.
Have you tried the command "which dovecot"?
John
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