Re: [exim] option "maildir_format" unknown

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Auteur: W B Hacker
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Aan: exim users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] option "maildir_format" unknown
Bryan Rawlins wrote:
> Emmanuel Salinas wrote:
>> hi there..
>>
>> Im trying to install exim , dovecot, spamd, clamav with a virtual domain on Mysql and my Distro is Slackware 11
>>
>> and when I start exim say:
>>     2007-11-06 12:10:55 Exim configuration error in line 879 of /etc/exim/exim.conf:
>>       option "maildir_format" unknown
>>     exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above

>>
>> Any idea of what's wrong???
>>
> It appears that your copy of exim was not compiled with maildir support.
>
> You'll have to recompile with that transport enabled in the local Makefile
>

Duhh... my bad!

'If necesity is the mother of invention, then assumption is the mother of all f'ups'

BTW - the OP may also need to create a dir and touch /var/log/exim/paniclog,
~/rejectlog, and ~/mainlog then chown and chmod 'em.

or wherever Linux hides 'em...

Bill