I'm trying to setup a rootless configuration so I can better manage the e-mail that comes to the mailbox of a unix account I have. I've successfully compiled Dovecot and followed the instructions for a rootless configuration, tweaking my config until Dovecot returns no errors. However I've got to a stage where upon running ~/..../sbin/dovecot it just quits with no server running and no errors. Any ideas? My rather small and basic configuration file is as follows...

# Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/

# Protocols we want to be serving: protocols = imap listen = * ssl_disable = yes

log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/ info_log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/

## Login processes

login_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/login login_chroot = no login_user = jamesd

## IMAP specific settings

protocol imap { listen = *:10143 }

## Authentication processes

auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/etc/passwd } user = jamesd }

Many thanks,

James

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