[Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Oct 1 19:00:04 EEST 2007


> I'm using gentoo also so we must have the same exact version.  Something
> strange though, my configuration file uses a different syntax than
> yours.  Instead of using colons for variables it expects equals.  So
> when I copied and pasted your config I got this error:
> 
> Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1:
> Expecting '='
> Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> Why is this happening?

The colons are produced from the output of 'dovecot -n'... you can't 
just copy-n-paste that output to a config file...

I brought this up some time ago, right after Timo added the dovecot -n 
feature, that it should be formatted the same as the config file itself...

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Best regards,

Charles


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