Hi all,
Thanks to Pascal here for suggesting that I pass the configuration file to the deliver process. In fact, what I have done is uninstalled the Ubuntu dovecot-postfix package in favour of a 'clearer' postfix, dovecot etc stack of my own. Having dug a big deeper in various ubuntu forums, it would appear that others have had similar problems with the dovecot LDA reading its configuration from the main rather than -postfix variant of the configuration.
I'll file a bug with Ubuntu.
Thanks for you help.
Advice for other reading this thread, stick with installing and configuring the individual components yourself!
:wq.
On 9 Mar 2010, at 16:50, Pascal Volk wrote:
On 03/09/2010 05:02 PM Greg Frith wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry, I thought a migration to /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf would do the trick, but it would appear (after several hours of grappling with a new problem) that 'something' is still reading configuration information from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.
Essentially I've been having problems getting dovecot to deliver mail to the correct location using mail_location and the 'userdb static' arg parameter. I finally deduce that no matter what I change I cannot get the mail delivered to the correct location, and in fact, after inserting a load of bogus values, mail would still arrive without problem at /home/vmail/%d/%n/. It turns out that 'something', I'm guessing maybe /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver is reading configuration from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, and not the -postfix.conf variant which I am now trying to maintain.
I've checked the Ubuntu Server documentation for dovecot which makes all references to dovecot.conf and never to dovecot-postfix.conf. Maybe I should be looking at documentation for the combined postfix/dovecot package, but I haven't found this anywhere.
Essentially, can anyone either explain to me how the two files are meant to work in harmony together, or confirm that I won't cause myself any problems further down the line by removing dovecot-postfix.conf?
Sorry to bug the list with such amateurish questions :-).
a) Please file a bug report in the Unbuntu bug tracking system. b) in master.cf change: … argv=/path/2/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} … to: … argv=/path/2/dovecot/deliver -c /path/to/config -f ${sender} …
Regards, Pascal
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