Hello all,

I'm attempting to run dovecot on an HP-UX 11.11 system ... the built went fine, and I've got the program installed. I copied dovecot-example.conf to dovecot.conf and made a few changes to it, then went to sbin and ran the dovecot binary to see what would happen. What happened was this:

colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf line 1: Unknown setting: _cert_file

... which is odd; line 1 of dovecot.conf was actually this:

## Dovecot configuration file

... and the first line that wasn't commented out was this:

protocols = imaps

So just for fun I changed the first non-commented line to this:

protocols=imaps

... and then ran the dovecot binary again. This time the error was subtly different:

colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf line 1: Unknown setting: ert_file

... "aha" says I, "it's having some issue with comments." So I took out every line in dovecot.conf that wasn't a comment, leaving me with just 23 lines:

protocols=imaps listen=<IP address> ssl_cert_file=/opt/openssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file=/opt/openssl/certs/imapd.pem disable_plaintext_auth=yes protocol imap { login_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir=/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot } protocol pop3 { } auth_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth default { mechanisms=plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user=root } plugin { }

This time, when I ran the binary, I got a new error:

colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Can't use SSL certificate /opt/openssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory

... this is odd, because the config file clearly states that it should look for the certificate elsewhere. But just for fun, I made dovecot.pem symlinks in /opt/openssl/certs and /opt/openssl/private. Then I try running again:

colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Missing auth section for server default

At this point, it's becoming clear to me that my current tactic isn't doing much, so I read some READMEs, checked the wiki, googled around a bit, and now I'm here.

Anyone have hints on this?

Thanks

Elliott