dovecot - Sep 2003 - problem with auth

I'm new to dovecot

(it's a cool piece of software!!!)

I'm using Debian woody

I'm trying to start the server but then there is this mail
Do I have to set an environment variable or waht does this mean.

I'm trying to use a pgsql backend for authentification
and I have compiled it from source


/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth start
dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset


Regards Ewald Geschwinde

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:37, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:
> I'm trying to start the server but then there is this mail
> Do I have to set an environment variable or waht does this mean.
No .. I should probably start talking about it with a different name in
docs. "mailbox location" or something rather than "MAIL
environment". :)
And rename default_mail_env from dovecot.conf with
default_mailbox_location.
> I'm trying to use a pgsql backend for authentification
> and I have compiled it from source
> 
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth start
> dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset
Start /usr/local/sbin/dovecot binary.