dovecot - Aug 2003 - Startup Problem

Hello,

i don't like asking stupid questions in mailinglist, 'cause i guess you
got
something better to do than answer it. But well this is an exception,
because i didn't find anything on google.

Here comes my problem:

I'm using a NetBSD 1.6.0 System with the latest dovecot build.

i want to start dovecot imapd by:

root at balin:[/etc]$ ./rc.d/dovecot start
Starting dovecot.
Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot.conf line 88:
Missing value

This is my error ;)

This is the line 88 in my conf file.
   maildir:/home/%u/mail

the maildir was created by 'makemaildir mail' and exists:

root at balin:[/home/tobi]$ ls -all
total 18
drwxr-xr-x  4 tobi  users   512 Aug 15 09:11 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Aug 13 01:18 ..
drwx------  5 tobi  users   512 Aug 14 12:47 mail

there it is.

in default option of the maildir line dovecot starts without problems but i
really want to have my mails in /home/%u/mail and not in
/var/mail/%1u/%u/mail
So could somebody please put some light on it?

Thank you,
Tobi

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:12:06AM +0200, Tobias Sasse
wrote:
> Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot.conf line 88:
> Missing value
> 
> This is my error ;)
> 
> This is the line 88 in my conf file.
>    maildir:/home/%u/mail
I think you are missing the 'default_mail_env = ' key in front
of that value.  Try:
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/mail

Jim

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