Dovecot2 and Lion won't start

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:42 AM, André Schulze wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> does anybody else have problems starting dovecot2 on Lion?
> In dovecot.conf i had to add the line
> 
> default_internal_user = _dovecot
> 
> to make launchd stop complaining like this:
> 
> dovecot[60113]: master: Fatal: service(dns_client) User doesn't exist: dovecot (See default_internal_user setting)


Did you migrate to dovecot2 from dovecot1 and convert from a dovecot1 dovecot.conf file?

Dovecot2 adds a etc/dovecot/conf.d directory with the idea of breaking up the one dovecot.conf file into multiple smaller files.

The dovecot2 "default_internal_user" has been set to "_dovecot" from the outset.
Look here:
${prefix}/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/conf.d/10-master.conf


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)