On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, felix wrote:
>Spot on!
>The problem was that I (wrongly) assumes that the # character could be 
>used to comment lines in the configuration files. Wrong, of course - 

The solution to this is that Binc should allow # as a comment character. 
I actually thought it did for a while, but it only supports C-style 
comments.

>and bincimap-up complained, and didn't read the config file to its end.
>Also, the logging parameter was set wrong - I set it to multilog but 
>didn't have multilog configured correctly, so I never saw the log 
>output. As soon as I changed log output to "syslog" I actually saw the 
>problems that were occurring. Aargh ;-)

The eternal problem of not being able to report log problems. Looking for
logs is usually a very good thing to start off with when tracking down a
problem.

>I'll write up a mini-HOWTO on my set-up soon, as promised.

Please add your experience to http://www.lifewithbincimap.org/ whereever
you find it belongs. We have a "help, it doesn't work!" section and a
troubleshooter section.

Andy :-)

-- 
Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."


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