On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:48 PM, dovecot-request@dovecot.org wrote:
Message: 7 Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:29:49 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi Subject: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta11 released To: dovecot@dovecot.org Message-ID: 1197224989.922.405.camel@hurina Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta11.tar.gz.sig
This one should be the last beta release before the first v1.1 release candidate.
I'll try to stay away from this list and Dovecot in general for the
next 1,5 weeks. I've several exams coming up and I should have started studying for them days ago already.. :)
stuff cut out
End of dovecot Digest, Vol 56, Issue 26
I ran into a problem moving from v 1.1 beta 10 to v 1.1 beta 11,
the logs show:
Dec 9 16:03:49 ns1 dovecot[331]: Dovecot v1.1.beta11 starting up
Dec 9 16:03:50 ns1 dovecot[331]: imap-login: We couldn't drop root
group privileges (wanted=150, gid=150, egid=0)
Dec 9 16:03:50 ns1 dovecot[331]: Temporary failure in creating login
processes, slowing down for now
The last two messages then begin repeating until Dovecot is shut down.
obviously, no one can log in. I tried changing the following
# System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple,
userdb
# can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use
either numbers
# or names.
to explicitly specifying
# System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple,
userdb
# can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use
either numbers
# or names.
mail_uid = Dovecot mail_gid = Dovecot
As well as setting the setuid bit in
login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
to no avail.
Dropping back to v 1.1 beta 10 fixed things for the moment. I did a
quick scan of the example conf file and the wiki docs but could not
find anything relevant.
dovecot -n shows (essentially the same for both versions)
# 1.1.beta11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imaps ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: Dovecot login_greeting: Hello, Dovecot is ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vmail/ mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/spool/vmail/ %d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes lock_method: flock auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: passwd-file args: scheme=plain-md5 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=virtual gid=virtual home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master user: virtual group: virtual
This is running on OS X 10.5.1 ??? Jerry