I'm trying to setup a rootless configuration so I can better manage the e-mail that comes to the mailbox of a unix account I have. I've successfully compiled Dovecot and followed the instructions for a rootless configuration, tweaking my config until Dovecot returns no errors. However I've got to a stage where upon running ~/..../sbin/dovecot it just quits with no server running and no errors. Any ideas? My rather small and basic configuration file is as follows...

Base directory where to store runtime data.

base_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/

Protocols we want to be serving:

protocols = imap listen = * ssl_disable = yes

log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/ info_log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/

Login processes

login_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/login login_chroot = no login_user = jamesd

IMAP specific settings

protocol imap { listen = *:10143 }

Authentication processes

auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/etc/passwd } user = jamesd }

Many thanks,

James

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