[Dovecot] Vpopmail support broken

[aledr]

I'm compiling vpopmail for openSUSE with this[1] patch for MySQL
support on 5.5.0.

[1]: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/265825

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:41 -0500, Matt Brookings wrote:
>
>> We have not received any reports for the 5.4 or 5.5 branch of vpopmail
>> causing crashes in Dovecot.  That being said, if there is a problem,
>> we would like to provide a fix.
>
> I guess the problem started when people started trying vpopmail 5.5:
>
> http://markmail.org/message/ylt62t2yyqqfc7dg
> http://markmail.org/message/ykb7qujikzlsvvbe
> http://markmail.org/message/3cjscs7wgvbj65dw
>
> I tried to fix 5.5 with this change:
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/597e18c0bc7e
>
> But I heard that it's now crashing when doing that call. (I'm not sure
> which ones of those above problems are with this change and which ones
> aren't.) And apparently that also completely broke 5.4.
>
> I'm not entirely sure about 5.4 problems. I think I remember someone
> saying that even when reverting the above change it didn't work.
>
>> Removing the "vpopmail support broken" line from the configure script,
>> compiling and running seemed to work short-term.  I was able to
>> authenticate against the vpopmail plugin.  I tested with vpopmail
>> 5.4.32 and 5.5.0 using the cdb authentication module.
>
> I guess the problem is with MySQL.
>
>
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