[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

Marc Perkel marc at perkel.com
Sun Aug 15 19:44:49 EEST 2010



On 8/15/2010 9:10 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull
>>
>> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary.
> I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 :
>
>   - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user setting.
>

might want to automatically add dovenull to the install script if 
possible. Perhaps a better error message than the one above that 
indicates the solution is to create the dovenull user.

Everything seems to be working. Is there a "what's new" feature list 
anywhere? Anything cool I might want to try?




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