Hello,

I am using the latest dovecot 1.1.2 with postfix, and using doveco deliver command for LDA. I really love dovecot, and how it has progressed over the years. However I have noticed that if I put a TAB character in the dovecot.conf file, it sometimes does not parse the file correctlty, and complains about missing postmaster_address etc, even though they are there.

So I reformated my config file, with just spaces, no tabs. I am very careful about that now. However I still seem to have a problem in some places with spaces.

For example, in the LDA section: If I have 3 or 4 spaces, after the lda line in the definition, like so:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # LDA Settings #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain.com hostname = mydomain.com ....

it does not work. I must have only 1 space between the end of lda and the curly bracket. Like this:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # LDA Settings #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain.com hostname = mydomain.com ....

This seems very flaky. I am not certain I will always be able to check the file when making changes. So my question is:

1. Is there someway to check the validity of the dovecot.conf file. I notice dovecot -n does not print the entire config.

2. Is there any chance the code used to parse the config file, could be updated to be more robust, and to include support for tabs?

Thank you.

Paul