Well, I solved my own problem. It turns out that the RPM that comes with Mandriva 2007 is for 1.0rc07, which uses the old format instead of "mail_location".
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hackhound hackhound@gmail.com Date: Jan 30, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 on a Mandriva 2007 box To: dovecot@dovecot.org
On 1/30/07, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.com wrote:
hackhound wrote:
I installed the RPM, and fought with it for days before realizing the packaged config file is incorrect. So I downloaded the latest tarball and used the sample dovecot.conf file. I was finally able to get dovecot to run as long as I leave the mail_location line commented out. If I uncomment the line dovecot complains that "mail_location" is an "unknown setting". What am I missing?
Well... it would help if you'd provide what is in your .conf file now... maybe it is just a typo...
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Best regards,
Charles
## Dovecot configuration file
protocols = pop3 pop3s listen = *
#mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
#mail_debug = no
protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
# POP3 executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for examples # how this could be changed. mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
# Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_no_flag_updates = no
# Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been removed # from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this # makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages. #pop3_enable_last = no
# If mail has X-UIDL header, use it as the mail's UIDL. #pop3_reuse_xuidl = no
# Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session. #pop3_lock_session = no
# POP3 UIDL (unique mail identifier) format to use. You can use following # variables: # # %v - Mailbox's IMAP UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail's IMAP UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu # Courier version 0 : %f # Courier version 1 : %u # Courier version 2 : %v-%u # Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u # Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u # Older Dovecots : %v.%u # tpop3d : %Mf # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good
# idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. # # NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old # default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing # installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new # installations. # pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
# POP3 logout format string: # %t - number of TOP commands # %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command # %r - number of RETR commands # %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command # %d - number of deleted messages # %m - number of messages (before deletion) # %s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion) #pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
# Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
# Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. # The list is space-separated. #pop3_client_workarounds = }
auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain login passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } }