On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 22:37, Willem Riede wrote:
On 01/19/2006 05:11:30 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
I think that maybe I should uninstall it and start again.
Now that you're running Fedora you should use a RPM to install dovecot. I can help you with that by getting you my working beta1 src.rpm to rebuild, if you like.
Hi, William. Thanks for the offer. I'm a bit puzzled at the moment as to where I've actually got to. This is what's happened:
I had original made an rpm with checkinstall, so I removed the dovecot user, so that a new install would set it up with the expected UID and GID, and removed the rpm.
My 'bright' idea was that I would install the official Fedora 0.99.14, then install 1.0bet1 over it. I had been assured earlier that it would install over the executables, so it seemed reasonable.
I got 0.99.14 on, but could not find the dovecot.conf.example or dovecot.conf to check paths, which worried me a bit, so I thought that if I attempted a login it would give me errors that would define a path. For the first time ever, it logged in! What's more, I can see my imap directories on another box.
The only dovecot.conf that I know about is the copy that was in /home/anne. What do you think is happening?
If all is working I will leave well alone. This is to be a temporary mail server while I do an upgrade. I don't want to do any more work on it than I need to, because I will be doing it over again, for a permanent install, on the upgraded box in a week or so.
Anne
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