Re: Movemail not getting emails

[Paul Cartwright <debian@pcartwright.com>]

On 11/08/2010 11:42 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> If you are indeed using Dovecot (I can't recall what you said), you're
> better off using:
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
>
> and commenting #home_mailbox = Maildir/
>
> There are a couple of reasons for this:
when I tried that, I got this error in dovecot.log:
paulandcilla:/var/log# tail dovecot.log
2010-11-08 12:35:52 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:35:52 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:35:52 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:38:54 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:38:55 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:38:56 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:38:59 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:38:59 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:39:00 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given
2010-11-08 12:40:52 deliver(pbc): Fatal: postmaster_address setting not
given

there is a line in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file:
#postmaster_address =
but when I tried to uncomment that, restarting dovecot failed:
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotError: Error in configuration
file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 759: Unknown setting: postmaster_address


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Paul Cartwright
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