[Dovecot] Configuration Error

Mike McGonagle mjmogo at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 00:25:47 EET 2007


Sorry for this, but I found a few braces that I forgot to uncomment. Guess I
should have checked my work a little more closely.
Thanks,

Mike


On Nov 25, 2007 4:09 PM, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am a newbie when it comes to Dovecot, and in following this ( http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
> ) document in setting these things up, I have run into an error that I am
> not quite certain what to do...
>
> I am running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, and using 1.0.5 for Dovecot. The message
> I am getting when I try to 'restart' Dovecot (using '/etc/init.d/dovecot
> restart') is:
>
> Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 505:
> Protocol section not allowed here (section changed at line 505)
> Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>    ...fail!
>
> Does this mean that I need to move this section of the configuration file
> to a different spot in the file? All I did was uncomment these things, and
> make the changes described in the link above, I would think that because
> this is just an edited version of the configuration file, that something
> like this shouldn't happen.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mike
>
>
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> Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything we
> have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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>



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Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything we
have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
—Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician


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