Date:  Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:39:50 +0200
From:  Jes Kasper Klittum <jes (at mark) enavn.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:09353] Re: Dovecot problem after update
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Brian,

Brian N. Smith skrev:
> 
> I have had over 1000 downloads and not a single complaint at all.  Very 
> strange!  It shouldn't have over written your configuration file.
> 

I actually did find some problems in the install. These are the things I 
learned:

When updating dovecot, my dovecot.conf is actually keps and the new conf 
  is savd as .rpmnew - however, I had some configuration variables in 
the file, that were not valid any more - forgot which one thoughh, but 
is was in relation to login_max something.

So, I tried taking the rpmnew conf instead - this made doveconf start up 
but pop3 and pop3s failed altogether. It turned out that this line in my 
old conf:

protocols =  imap imaps pop3 pop3s

in this conf was reduced to:

protocols =  imap imaps

Okay - I changed that, and now I was able to pop the account, however, 
upon entering my username  I got an error that plaintext login was not 
allowed, so I changed:

#disable_plaintext_auth = yes

to

disable_plaintext_auth = no

I bet a ot of other BQ users also use plaintext logins !

Now I could login, but was kicked immediately with some pop3_uid error 
in maillog.

So I changed:

# pop3_uidl_format =

to:

pop3_uidl_format = %u

Now I was able to login to an account, type commands and all, but my 
mails vere not visible. I found that this had slipped. In the new conf 
this variable is not set:

#mail_location =

I changed this to:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=mbox

And now I was able to see my mails - I guess this should be default on BQ.

Hope you are able to change this, and other users may use this to get 
their mail working with the new conf.

/Jes

	
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