This morning I portupgraded dovecot 0.99.14 to 1.0.a3 on two of my FreeBSD
servers and found that the new dovecot refused to start on FreeBSD 5.21
server.  However, it works ok on FreeBSD 5.4.  Please help me with the
FreeBSD 5.21 one.

#uname -a
FreeBSD fileserver.xxx.local 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-
p14 #3: Sun Aug  7 13:24:38 CST 2005     xxx@xxx.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATEWAY  i386

## /etc/rc.conf
dovecot_enable="YES"

## /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
ssl_disable = yes
(I only changed the above line in dovecot.conf.sample.)

## ports
fileserver# make clean
===>  Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_1
===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.5.20
===>  Cleaning for perl-5.8.7
===>  Cleaning for cyrus-sasl-2.1.21
===>  Cleaning for openssl-0.9.8_1
===>  Cleaning for dovecot-1.0.a3

## error messages
Oct  9 11:50:01 fileserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up
Oct  9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting
down
Oct  9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42837 (login) returned error 89
Oct  9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42836 (login) returned error 89
Oct  9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42838 (login) returned error 89
Oct  9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42835 (auth) returned error 89

Thanks in advance for your help.

Adamson Huang