[Dovecot] Unknown setting: service

Remy Zandwijk remy at luckyhands.nl
Thu Aug 11 17:41:40 EEST 2011


On 11.08.2011 16:06 , Patrick Westenberg wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I setup a new box with Debian Squeeze 64bit and installed dovecot from
> the sources. However, I can't start dovecot or even use doveconf:
>
> root at imap01:~# doveconf -n
> # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file 
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf line 111: Unknown setting: mail_uid
>
> Why is mail_uid and mail_gid an unknown setting?
> On my other box the configuration is identical (but Dovecot is
> upgraded from early 2.0.x versions to the current one)
You probably forgot to set an } somewhere. Can you show us the 10-mail.conf file?

-Remy




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