[Dovecot] Vpopmail support broken

[aledr]

I forgot to mention that it is with 1.2.x series and also needed
"-DENABLE_AUTH_LOGGING" for vpopmail's CFLAGS.
I'm running some servers smoothly for a few months (all using MySQL backends)...

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, aledr <matrixworkstation at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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