I have successfully compiled HEAD on FreeBSD-7 and I hope I am not doing anything weird. ./configure
--cache-file=../cache_file
--prefix=/opt/dovecot2
--with-ioloop=kqueue
--with-notify=kqueue
--with-sql=yes
--with-mysql
--with-zlib
--with-bzlib
--with-ssl=openssl
--with-sql-drivers

FreeBSD-7# pwd /opt/dovecot2 FreeBSD-7# ls -al sbin/dovecot* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 132924 Apr 27 16:59 sbin/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 100452 Apr 27 16:59 sbin/dovecotpw FreeBSD-7# ./sbin/dovecot -n dovecot: illegal option -- n Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] [-p] [-n] [-a] [-cb <config binary path>] [--version] [--build-options] FreeBSD-7# ./bin/doveconf doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /opt/dovecot2/etc/dovecot.conf line 1048: Unknown setting: user

PS: This is the default config it shipped with. Nothing changed so far.

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