[Dovecot] login w/ IMAP & LDAP

[Bob Hall]

Dovecot now works perfectly. In spite of having a homeDirectory 
value for my test LDAP entry, I still needed the LDAP patch. For 
any foolish beginners like myself, the procedure for patch-less
patching in FBSD is:
# cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot
If you have dovecot currently installed, then
# make deinstall
If you have a work directory, then
# make distclean
The next step reinstalls the work directory and any and all files that 
a patch might be applied to.
# make patch
Move to the directory with the file you want to patch.
# cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-0.99.10/src/auth
Copy the patch file to the directory.
# cp /path-to-patch-file/auth-no-homedir.patch .
Do something that allows you to view both the patch file and the 
file to be patched. In my case, that's 
# vim -o master-connection.c auth-no-homedir.patch
Find the line in the file to be patched that matches the line in 
the patch file marked with an "-". Replace it with the line in the 
patch file marked with a "+". Make absolutely sure that you have 
deleted only what should be deleted and have added everything that 
should be added, and in the correct location. Save and close.
# cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot
# make install

Thank you Marco, and thank you very very much Timo for your time and 
effort.  

Bob Hall