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Unable to run dovecot w/ non-opaque configuration

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Bake Timmons <b3timmons <at> speedymail.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> igalia.com>, 25802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, clement <at> lassieur.org
Subject: Re: bug#25802: Unable to run dovecot w/ non-opaque configuration
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:37:44 +0200

Hi Bake,

Bake Timmons <b3timmons <at> speedymail.org> skribis:

> Trying to reconfigure my system running guix 0.12.0 for dovecot with
> the default configuration object created by '(dovecot-configuration)'
> results in:
>
> guix system: error: exception thrown: #<condition %compound [message: "Invalid value for field path: \"lmtp\""] 4a6a140>
>
> Adding a services list to the above works around the above error and
> allows 'guix system reconfigure' to complete successfully.  However,
> the generated dovecot.conf is rejected by doveconf:
>
> doveconf: Error in configuration file /gnu/store...dove.cot.conf line 1: Expecting '{'
>
>>From my limited acquaintance with dovecot, the guix-generated syntax of, say,
> ImapMaxLineLength 64000
>
> disagrees with what I gather to be the normal dovecot.conf syntax of
> imap_max_line_length = 64000

Clément, Andy: WDYT?  :-)

I suspect commit 56aef188a2a014e254d3c93c8a79cd1fb5a1ece6 by Clément
might have fixed the syntax issue reported here.

Ludo’.

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