On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:05 +0300, Oleg Lapshin wrote: > В сообщении от 16 декабря 2005 13:44 Paul J Stevens написал(a): > > Add: > > > > TRACE_SYSLOG=1 > > TRACE_STDERR=0 > > > > to your dbmail.conf as documented in the example config. > > > > This one had me stumped as well last week :-( > > Sorry ;) > > Output: > Dec 16 13:48:23 bagira dbmail/imap4d[3862]: dbmysql.c,db_connect: > mysql_real_connect failed: Unknown MySQL server > host 'localhost # host for database, set to localhost if > database is om ' (3) > > I had in config: > host=localhost # host for database, set to localhost if database is om > # the same host as dbmail and you want to use a local socket > # for connecting. > > and when I change to: > host=localhost > # host for database, set to localhost if database is om > # the same host as dbmail and you want to use a local socket > # for connecting. > > (add newline after localhost) > dbmail-imapd is runing > > So, are there errors in parsing config file? > or comments _must_ begin with newline?
The problem was that you didn't have the two config items TRACE_SYSLOG and TRACE_STDERR. I thoughlessly made those mandatory with a stupid fatal error message. Aaron