On 20/05/2024 08:35 EEST Дилян Палаузов via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:

Hello,

I installed Dovecot from git 6b1bcf1bad1d78e, copied /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example/config to /usr/local/etc/dovecot and called dovecot -F . The system reported

doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext line 11: passdb { } is missing section name

The problem remains, if I delete

dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext dovecot-ldap.conf.ext dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext dovecot-sql.conf.ext conf.d/auth-deny.conf.ext conf.d/auth-ldap.conf.ext conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext conf.d/auth-static.conf.ext conf.d/auth-dict.conf.ext conf.d/auth-master.conf.ext conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext

thus leaving passdb {} and userdb {} defined on a single place.

Indeed, auth-system.conf.ext contains the sections passdb and userdb without the optional name, as described at https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/#sections .

The problem report is that the example configuration does not contain for sections userdb and passdb a section name, and at the same time the as optional described section name is mandatory in Dovecot on these places.

Kind regards Dilyan

Hi!

The git version is the new 2.4 version, which still has some things not done.

You can find documentation at https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/ which is probably more up to date than the example configs.

Aki