[Dovecot] dovecot mysql support

[jan gestre]

On Nov 19, 2007 2:05 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:15:24PM -0800, jan gestre wrote:
> > >>I'm using CentOS 4.5, is the dovecot default rpm comes with mysql
> > >>support? Do I need to rebuild it?
> > >
> > >The packages at ATrpms already come with mysql support. Did you try them?
> >
> > Do they also have 'inotify' support? I seem to recall trouble with the
> > ATrpms version of dovecot. The particular CentOS 4.5 box I was using still
> > had a 2.4 kernel, since it'd been recently upgraded from RHEL3. (We didn't
> > want to upgrade the kernel on the remote box since it was working fine for
> > our purposes).
>
> No, on RHEL4 (and therefore CentOS4 as well) inotify has been
> disabled. Although I didn't document the reason good enough, so maybe
> it is worth while checking if a rebuild would be OK (simply rebuilding
> the package will enable inotify). Would you like to test it and report
> back?
>
> As for a 2.4 kernel on RHEL4 & clones: The kernel will not provide the
> neccessary inotify functions, but I hope dovecot will just notice that
> and not fail on it (e.g. just disable inotify support). But I haven't
> tested that combo.
>
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>

As it turned out the rebuild also created a newer dovecot.conf which I
failed to notice, I guess the old config won't work with version 1.0.7