Thanks Timo,
Sorry to bother you with my newbie problems while you're so busy getting rc13 out of the door. Since I have no external mail yet om the development box, it's difficult to cut and past to Outlook which is on another piece of iron. I'll see if I can get some results with the original conf file.
CU Egbert Jan
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:38 PM To: egbert@vandenbussche.nl; Dovecot Mailing List Cc: saispo@mandriva.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot rc12 on Mandriva 2007.0 woes
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:19 +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
Hi list! (cc to Jerome of Mandriva.org)
I'm fighting to get dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 with Postfix 2.3.3. Postfix works fine for both system and virtual users. Mail is delivered in the correct Maildirs. System users have /home/user/Maildir/ and virtual users have /home/virtual/domain.tld/user/.
I think I've build and installed correct rpm's using the Cooker src.rpm (by Jerome) for rc7 modified by me for rc12.
My problem is to get a working dovecot.conf file. Apart from all relocated file locations in Mandriva (/usr instead of /usr/local and other less obvious changes),
There's no need to change the paths since they're commented out, and the defaults are the ones where Mandriva placed them.
I want to use imap (and later imaps) with local real system users. I'm completely lost here. Whatever I think is right syntax in dovecot.conf, is immediately leading to problems. Dovecot refuses to start.
How about giving the exact error message? Much easier to help you then.
The doc in the dovecot.conf is rather chaotic, imho. Could somebody give me a WORKING example of the userdb and passdb setting for ordinary imap to the Maildir in /home/user of an ordinairy system user, please?
The default config file should work without any changes for you. I think your problem is elsewhere.