Hello!

Let me smuggle 2 questions in 1 email:

1. I upgraded from 1.1.7 to 2.0.1, but couldn't get it to work, because the 'dovecot + postfix sasl howto' doesn't seem to be updated and the old sasl settings are incompatible with new version. How do I set up sasl with dovecot2 ? Is there any updated howto available?
2. In dovecot 1.1.7: my expire_plugin seems to work fine, new entries are correctly added to the dictionary, but the messages don't actually get expunged. expire_tool says: dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/lib/dovecot/expire-tool --test Info: maildir: data=~/Maildir Info: maildir++: root=/home/virtual/<domain>/<user>/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/virtual/<domain>/<user>/Maildir Info: <user>@<domain>/Trash: timestamp 1285005106 (Mon Sep 20 18:51:46 2010
3. -> 1290102903 (Mon Sep 20 18:51:46 2010
4. Info: <user2>@<domain>/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Sat Nov  6 18:33:12 2010

Messages are only updated in the dictionary, but nothing is ever expunged. Any idea why?

Output of dovecot -n:

# 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.7-9-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/startssl.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/startssl.pem verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire autocreate mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire autocreate mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot2 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 expire: Trash 60 Trash.* 60 Spam 365 expire_dict: proxy::expire autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Spam dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf

Create dict. table query:

 CREATE TABLE expires ( mailbox varchar(255) NOT NULL, expire_stamp int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY  (mailbox) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

expire dict. conf:

table = expires select_field = expire_stamp where_field = mailbox username_field = not_used

And is there a point in using expire plugin without autocreate plugin? Because trash can be called wastebasket for example, and then it doesn't work. Spam can be called Junk, and again, it doesn't work.

Any response to these queries would be greatly appreciated.

Tadeusz Stelmach