On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:
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...
I second that suggestion. The namespace config is particularly different
(the "type: public/private" part):
namespace:
type: public
separator: /
prefix: users/
location:
maildir:/var/mail:CONTROL=/var/mail/.%u/control/users:INDEX=/var/mail/.%u/index/users
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
inbox: yes
translates to:
namespace public {
separator = /
prefix = users/
location =
maildir:/var/mail:CONTROL=/var/mail/.%u/control/users:INDEX=/var/mail/.%u/index/users
}
namespace private {
separator = /
inbox = yes
}
Along with:
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/.%u:INDEX=/var/mail/.%u/dovecot
I think those are the relevant changes (from the base Gentoo config) to my
dovecot.conf.
Best,
Ben
