On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 17:14, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:

Fatal: Can't create directory /usr/local/var/run/dovecot: No such file or directory

... when I undefine "base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/". So that path really isn't the default dovecot uses, for some reason it prepends '/usr/local' (that being the install prefix). This could be a feature, too - it just confused me because I thought the comments showed the default settings.

From beginning of config file:

Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment

any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples

with real defaults being based on configure options.

I use those values that are the preferred locations that binary package builders should use.

Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 125: Unknown setting: max_logging_users

That should probably be login_max_logging_users?

Right.