[Dovecot] Dovecot and LDAP problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:04:14PM -0400, Spectron International, Inc. wrote:
> I'm having problems with dovecot and OpenLDAP. I installed both, and
> configured both. /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf exists and I modified dovecot.conf
> to have...
> 
> Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot-auth: Unknown userdb type 'ldap'

It means LDAP support isn't compiled in. It should show that at the end of
configure. If it doesn't, it didn't find it for some reason. Maybe you're
missing openldap-dev or similiar? Or they're installed to location where
configure can't find them?