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 p...@pcartwright.com, or whatever it is. It's required if bounces occur. It's the "from" address in any bounce messages Dovecot generates. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd8473c.9010...@hardwarefreak.com