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".
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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...
--
Best regards,
Charles
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 {
}
}