Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>:

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 08:47 -0700, Joe @ 3ZZZ wrote:

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configure: error: vpopmail support is broken. fix it or access its db another way.

however, vpopmail seems to be working fine, i can add domains from vpopmail/bin/vadddomain and they show up in the database just fine. So why do I receive this error and how can i troubleshoot?

It means that people kept telling me all the time that running Dovecot with vpopmail crashes, so I got tired of it and just disabled it entirely until someone figures out what to do to fix it.

Thanks for your reply Timo!

Does this apply only to dovecot 2.x or also 1.x ?

It seems to be working well for me (so far) on the 1.2.1 installation
with vpopmail, but i've only been using it in production just over a
month (despite installing it quite some time ago). Is there something
I should be worried about or looking for?

thanks again! Joe

Joe @ 3ZZZ put forth on 9/20/2010 12:47 PM:

I'm now installing dovecot 1.2.14 on my new server for use with vpopmail

• is this inadvisable; should I seek an alternative to dovecot if I want to stay with vpopmail?

Sure, switch (back?) to Courier, Cyrus, or UW-IMAP, assuming vpopmail works with all of their current versions. There are but a handful of decent *nix open source IMAP servers. There are a gazillion open source virtual user/domain management utilities.

If you are so faithfully wed to vpopmail out of said gazillion other options, which by your own admission you've only been using for a month, please, by all means, chuck Dovecot and convert all your mail to one of the other handful of *nix FOSS IMAP servers. It will be a much easier migration than grabbing 20 other management frontends, importing your user/domain data, and picking one you like that works with Dovecot 2.x.

/sarcasm

Veiled, idle, meaningless 'threats' often prompt sarcastic (or worse) replies. Sometimes none at all, as it's not worth some folks time. I had a few minutes. ;)

Hike up your skirt, Grab another front end from the gazillion of them out there, and get to work setting it up, instead of complaining that Dovecot doesn't work with 1 out of 1 gazillion management front ends.

-- Stan

On 2010-09-20 13:44:01 -0700, Joe @ Omniweb wrote:

I love everything I've seen about dovecot so far - is there a particular frontend you'd suggest?

i run with postfixadmin[1]+mysql+dovecot+postfix

but it kinda depends how your vpopmail stuff is stored.

darix

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/

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On 20.9.2010, at 18.47, Joe @ 3ZZZ wrote:

I'm now installing dovecot 1.2.14 on my new server for use with vpopmail - is this inadvisable; should I seek an alternative to dovecot if I want to stay with vpopmail?

If your vpopmail data is in SQL, you should be able to continue using it with Dovecot's passdb sql and userdb sql. I'm not aware of anyone having posted how exactly to do that, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

On 2010-09-21 10:26:49 +0200, mailing@securitylabs.it wrote:

Dovecot 1.2.14 + Vpopmail 5.4.30 it's fine here.

and now try it with 5.5;)

darix

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