[Dovecot] Getting rid of the common newbie problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 02:10 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:21 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen writes:
> > 
> > > "Set pop3_uidl_format setting in config file"
> > > "pop3_uidl_format setting is missing from config file"
> > > "Set pop3_uidl_format in config file"
> > 
> > How about:
> > You have choosen to run POP3. The setting pop3_uidl_format needs to be set 
> > in the dovecot.conf file for the POP3 server to work.
> > See examples in configuration file.
> >   
> > 
> > If that is too long.. then:
> > You have choosen to run POP3. Setting pop3_uidl_format needed in 
> > dovecot.conf
> 
> Lets try this: You must configure pop3_uidl_format in dovecot.conf
> 
> This happens only when the user is logging in with pop3 so it should be
> obvious that the problem is related to pop3.

Except why am I not checking it at startup? That would probably get rid
of this problem once and for all. People are better at fixing problems
at startup then when seeing them in the middle of log messages.

This should be enough:

# dovecot   
Error: POP3 enabled but pop3_uidl_format not set

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