On 1/30/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote:

hackhound wrote:

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I installed the RPM, and fought with it for days before realizing the packaged config file is incorrect. So I downloaded the latest tarball and used the sample dovecot.conf file. I was finally able to get dovecot to run as long as I leave the mail_location line commented out. If I uncomment the line dovecot complains that "mail_location" is an "unknown setting". What am I missing?

Well... it would help if you'd provide what is in your .conf file now... maybe it is just a typo...

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Best regards,

Charles

Dovecot configuration file

protocols = pop3 pop3s listen = *

#mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

#mail_debug = no

protocol pop3 {

Login executable location.

login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login

POP3 executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for examples

how this could be changed.

mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3

Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is

mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files

from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header.

#pop3_no_flag_updates = no

Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been

removed

from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this

makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages.

#pop3_enable_last = no

If mail has X-UIDL header, use it as the mail's UIDL.

#pop3_reuse_xuidl = no

Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session.

#pop3_lock_session = no

POP3 UIDL (unique mail identifier) format to use. You can use following

variables:

%v - Mailbox's IMAP UIDVALIDITY

%u - Mail's IMAP UID

%m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only)

%f - filename (maildir only)

If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use:

UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu

Courier version 0 : %f

Courier version 1 : %u

Courier version 2 : %v-%u

Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u

Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u

Older Dovecots : %v.%u

tpop3d : %Mf

Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which

was

Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good

idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe.

NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old

default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing

installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new

installations.

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu

POP3 logout format string:

%t - number of TOP commands

%p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command

%r - number of RETR commands

%b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command

%d - number of deleted messages

%m - number of messages (before deletion)

%s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion)

#pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s

Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space

separated

list of plugins to load.

#mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3

Workarounds for various client bugs:

outlook-no-nuls:

Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters.

This setting replaces them with 0x80 character.

oe-ns-eoh:

Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is

missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing.

The list is space-separated.

#pop3_client_workarounds = }

auth default {

Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:

plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi

mechanisms = plain login passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } }