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Date:  Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:55:00 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:09354] Re: Dovecot problem after update
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <02d001c771e8$51279b50$3701a8c0@lapxp>
In-Reply-To:  <460B7B56.2070301 (at mark) enavn.com>
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> > 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.

Thanks, Jes!

The only setting I missed was pop3_uidl_format ...
Now the new conf works,


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

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