On 20/11/2016 13:51, Michael Felt wrote:
I built dovecot using --prefix=/opt (I abhor /usr/local these days -
that is so 1984ish). The applications got installed in /opt/bin
Well done but I urge you to go a step further. You should put your
builds in a sub level of /opt/ to distinguish and a
On 20/11/2016 16:41, Michael Felt wrote:
(though still unknowing what the fatal error)
This is also needed:
cp -rp /etc/dovecot/conf.d /opt/etc/dovecot/
as the config file contains:
# Most of the actual configuration gets included below. The filenames are
# first sorted by their ASCII value
On 20/11/2016 16:36, Michael Felt wrote:
More later.
So, part of my confusion may be resolved - I was thinking $prefix only,
where there are three:
From the default config file (though still unknowing what the fatal
error) contains:
# options. The paths listed here are for configure --pre
On 20/11/2016 14:51, Michael Felt wrote:
root@x066:/data/prj/aixtools/dovecot/core# cat /etc/dovecot/README
Configuration files go to this directory. See example configuration
files in
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-core/example-config/
Conclusion:
--prefix=/opt is not applied everywhere.
* More fir
a) google: "dovecot imap configuration" brought an article from 2005 as
the first item:
while I like debian and a bit of history you may want to ask yourself
how to improve your site as the primary hit from google. FYI: years ago
I had great results in the top of google searches - and then I m
