Error when starting Dovecot

Muzaffer Tolga Ozses tolga at ozses.net
Sat Jun 13 05:12:38 UTC 2015


By the way, I looked at my own file, and it doesn't give full path of lmtp.
On 13 Jun 2015 08:05, "Muzaffer Tolga Ozses" <tolga at ozses.net> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>


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