Re: Movemail not getting emails
Paul Cartwright put forth on 11/8/2010 11:50 AM:
> 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
Change that to the postmaster address for your domain. I'd probably
make it your personal email address paul@pcartwright.com, or whatever it
is. It's required if bounces occur. It's the "from" address in any
bounce messages Dovecot generates.
--
Stan
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