On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:59:45AM -0400, Phil Howard wrote:
The sample provided config file (the one I started with by editing it) included the following text:
------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------
If there's a file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf, which is part of
dovecot-postfix package, it will be used instead of dovecot.conf.
Keep in mind that, if that file exist, none of the changes in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf will have effect on dovecot's configuration.
In that case you should customize /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf.
------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------
So I expected it would use that by default. It seems to not be doing so. Does this mean I have to modify the startup scripts to add the -c option to force the use of this config file? Or should I just put all my configs in the default "/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf" file?
When doing "dovecot -n" it became apparent that my configs were not being used. But "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf -n" was doing it. Any idea why it's not behaving as those comments described?
Ubuntu is using dovecot-postfix.conf as the working config file if you install the package 'dovecot-postfix' from the Ubuntu server team. But if you install the seperate packages 'dovecot-[common|imapd|pop3d]' dovecot.conf will be used.
And it might be, that your master.cf does not call dovecot deliver with '-c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf' as part of argv=.
Dennis