So what do you have for passdb and userdb?
They should look something like
auth default { mechanisms = plain
passdb shadow { }
userdb passwd { }
...
(Earlier versions of 1.0, e.g. 1.0-stable, have just
passdb shadow userdb passwd
)
Chris Cliff Hayes wrote:
Chris,
Believe it or not, I did all that. I read the upgrading doc. There really isn't anything there that applies to me. Also, before I even emailed you, I did as instructed and used the sample file as a base, altering it based on my previous conf file.
Furthermore, I looked in the conf file itself for help. Did everything that I thought applied to me (changes shown in original email below).
Pardon my frustration, but the front page of dovecot.org says this...
Dovecot is easy to set up and doesn't require special maintenance. Only thing you need is to get the authentication working properly - if your users are in /etc/passwd there's hardly anything you have to do.
...which is exactly what I have. Yet I have had enormous problems with set up the first time, now I get to start all over again. I couldn't get it to work the first time until you gave me this for the .conf file:
default_mail_env = mbox:/tmp:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
Now, with the new version, does that change?
Oh, by the way, here's my ./configure options:
./configure --with-pop3d --with-passwd --with-shadow
Cliff
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