[Dovecot] v1.1.beta11 released (Problems)

[Jerry Yeager]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:48 PM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:
>
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:29:49 +0200
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta11 released
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
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> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta11.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta11.tar.gz.sig
>
> This one should be the last beta release before the first v1.1 release
> candidate.
>
> I'll try to stay away from this list and Dovecot in general for the  
> next
> 1,5 weeks. I've several exams coming up and I should have started
> studying for them days ago already.. :)
>

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I ran into a problem moving from v 1.1 beta 10 to v 1.1 beta 11,

the logs show:

Dec  9 16:03:49 ns1 dovecot[331]: Dovecot v1.1.beta11 starting up
Dec  9 16:03:50 ns1 dovecot[331]: imap-login: We couldn't drop root  
group privileges (wanted=150, gid=150, egid=0)
Dec  9 16:03:50 ns1 dovecot[331]: Temporary failure in creating login  
processes, slowing down for now


The last two messages then begin repeating until Dovecot is shut down.

obviously, no one can log in. I tried changing the following

# System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple,  
userdb
# can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use  
either numbers
# or names. <doc/wiki/UserIds>
#mail_uid =
#mail_gid =

to explicitly specifying

# System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple,  
userdb
# can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use  
either numbers
# or names. <doc/wiki/UserIds>

mail_uid = Dovecot
mail_gid = Dovecot


As well as setting the setuid bit in

login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

to no avail.

Dropping back to v 1.1 beta 10 fixed things for the moment. I did a  
quick scan of the example conf file and the wiki docs but could not  
find anything relevant.

dovecot -n shows (essentially the same for both versions)

# 1.1.beta11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imaps
ssl_listen: *:993
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user: Dovecot
login_greeting: Hello, Dovecot is ready.
valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vmail/
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/spool/vmail/ 
%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n
mail_debug: yes
lock_method: flock
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   passdb:
     driver: passwd-file
     args: scheme=plain-md5 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd
   userdb:
     driver: static
     args: uid=virtual gid=virtual home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n
   socket:
     type: listen
     client:
       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
       user: postfix
       group: postfix
     master:
       path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
       user: virtual
       group: virtual



This is running on OS X 10.5.1
???
		Jerry

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