On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM Curtis J Blank via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
I just did a Tumbleweed upgrade. then I had to fix dovecot. No warning that dovecot was going to break what so ever. Below is all the things I had to fix. And then I could not read my email in Thunderbird because you changed:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u to mail_driver = mbox mail_path = ~/mail mail_inbox_path = /var/spool/mail/%{user}
and the "%u" to "%{user}" was the showstopper.
What a crock of BS! I spent 3 hours determining the problem and then fixing dovecot because you decided to make major changes for no good reason. It worked just fine the way it was. You could have automated the changes by providing a utility that would make the changes the first time it started up after the upgrade.
All this ranting while you did not read the release announcement? Oh Lord of Mercy :-)
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:11PM Curtis J Blank via dovecot <[1]dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
I just did a Tumbleweed upgrade. then I had to fix dovecot. No warning
that dovecot was going to break what so ever. Below is all the things I
had to fix. And then I could not read my email in Thunderbird because
you changed:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
to
mail_driver = mbox
mail_path = ~/mail
mail_inbox_path = /var/spool/mail/%{user}
and the "%u" to "%{user}" was the showstopper.
What a crock of BS! I spent 3 hours determining the problem and then
fixing dovecot because you decided to make major changes for no good
reason. It worked just fine the way it was. You could have automated the
changes by providing a utility that would make the changes the first
time it started up after the upgrade.All this ranting while you did not read the release announcement? Oh Lord of Mercy :-)
Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\_(Tu)_/- :-) [How to ask smart questions: [2]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
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