Re: Movemail not getting emails

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:50:39 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> 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

There must be any mistake in your "dovecot.conf" :-?

> 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

Mmmm, recheck your settings, review all the curly brackets aperture/close 
{} stanzas (they have to properly match), review the syntax and look for 
leading empty/blank spaces...

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón