Thanks for everyone's input. I was already sudoed to root before running any of the operations so it wasn't that. May have been that --with-storages error I'd made. I tried your config John, with mods for my system and besides having to add the dovecot user/group manually it seems to be running just fine now.
Thanks! 2008/8/10 John and Catherine Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I also install from source on my Debian system and I keep the configure > options in a little script which currently looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > #configure flags for compilation compatible with gentoo emerge > #john allen > #9.5.2005 > #modified 19.11.2006 > #modified 26.1.2008 for kirtley > ./configure \ > --with-pam \ > --without-deliver \ > --with-storages=maildir \ > --prefix=/usr \ > --mandir=/usr/share/man \ > --infodir=/usr/share/info \ > --datadir=/usr/share \ > --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot \ > --localstatedir=/var > > I can't see any problem with your configure options, so as Charles says > maybe there's another dovecot somewhere on your system. > > Have you tried the command "which dovecot"? > > John > > -- > John Allen > Bofferdange, Luxembourg > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://allenlux.dyndns.org > > -- Don't just do something...sit there!
