Error when starting Dovecot

[Muzaffer Tolga Ozses]

There might be a whitespace. Try pasting what you copied to notepad or
gedit  (depending on your OS) then copy/pasting here again.
On 12 Jun 2015 18:25, "Steve Matzura" <number6 at noisynotes.com> wrote:

> After applying some changes to 10-master.conf as detailed at
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP I receive the
> following when trying to start:
>
> doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file
> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf
> line 49: Expecting '{'
>
> I'm trying to enable LMTP. The instructions say:
>
> Socket configuration
>
> The actual socket is configured in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.
> The LMTP service can be bound to both INET or Unix sockets. In this
> example a Unix socket is placed inside the Postfix spool with
> appropriate permissions set:
>
> service lmtp {
>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0600
>    user = postfix
>   }
> }
>
> I copied this block and placed it in my copy of 10-master.conf. Line
> 49 is the first line of this block, and there's clearly a left-brace
> there. The braces match, too. Thoughts?
>