On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:34:11PM -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:43, Dennis Guhl <d...@dguhl.org> wrote: > > > Ubuntu is using dovecot-postfix.conf as the working config file if you > > install the package 'dovecot-postfix' from the Ubuntu server team. But > > if you install the seperate packages 'dovecot-[common|imapd|pop3d]' > > dovecot.conf will be used. > > > > This is what I have installed:
[..] > So, dovecot-postfix is intended as an alternative for all the others? I don't use Ubuntu, but Debian. I think dovecot-postfix might be a pseudo-package to omit installing all single packages but one which 'contains' everything. > > And it might be, that your master.cf does not call dovecot deliver > > with '-c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf' as part of argv=. > > > > Thanks, I'll have to check that, too. I did not know it also needed to be > in master.cf. I have a reference in main.cf but it doesn't have args. > > smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot > smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth > mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver You can also give the full command here instead a transport name defined in the master.cf. And you append all parameters directly behind the command. Also have a look here: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_command Dennis