On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

On Thursday 24 January 2008 18:23:49 Asheesh Laroia wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

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I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns

Can you try upgrading to a more recent Dovecot? 1.0.10 is the current stable release.

I'm new to CentOS and still finding my way around. It isn't being offered as an upgrade, but perhaps an FC6 package might work. I'll see what I can find out.

Packages in http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ work for CentOS 5.

on 1/24/2008 11:12 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:

On Thursday 24 January 2008 19:00:23 Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

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On Thursday 24 January 2008 18:23:49 Asheesh Laroia wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

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I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns Can you try upgrading to a more recent Dovecot? 1.0.10 is the current stable release. I'm new to CentOS and still finding my way around. It isn't being offered as an upgrade, but perhaps an FC6 package might work. I'll see what I can find out. Packages in http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ work for CentOS 5.

Hmm - I have some packages from rpmforge. IIRC I had problems in FC6 with atrpms conflicting with other repos. I wonder whether it is safe to use rpmforge and atrpms at the same time? I do remember Axel saying that he was working to try to improve the situation.

Anne You can either leave the repo disabled and only enable it for certain packages

"yum --enablerepo=atrpms-testing update dovecot" Or just download the rpm from the website and "rpm -Uvh"

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

Anne Wilson escribió:

On Thursday 24 January 2008 19:55:33 Scott Silva wrote:

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You can either leave the repo disabled and only enable it for certain packages

"yum --enablerepo=atrpms-testing update dovecot" Or just download the rpm from the website and "rpm -Uvh"

Yes, either is possible. I'm too tired to make a sensible decision, so I'll decide in the morning :-)

You can also: packages.

1. Install and configure yum-priorities plugin[1]
2. Add "includepkgs=dovecot dovecot-devel dovecot-sieve" to [atrpms] and [atrpms-testing] definitions if you want to use it only for dovecot

[1] http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

-- Angel Marin http://anmar.eu.org/

on 1/24/2008 10:47 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:

On Thursday 24 January 2008 18:23:49 Asheesh Laroia wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

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I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns Can you try upgrading to a more recent Dovecot? 1.0.10 is the current stable release.

I'm new to CentOS and still finding my way around. It isn't being offered as an upgrade, but perhaps an FC6 package might work. I'll see what I can find out.

Anne

Try the atrpms repo. http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote:

At 5:14 PM +0000 1/24/08, Anne Wilson imposed structure on a stream

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I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns

# /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

I can telnet localhost 143 and log in.

I have given kmail the address of the server and an Inbox has been created, but no option to create sub-folders. If I attempt to send a message kmail freezes. Clearly something's wrong.

I am using configuration files from the old server, modified only to the new server details. I have alias and transport hashes. What else should I be looking at?

Your MTA. Your references to alias and transport hashes makes me suspect that it is Postfix.

Dovecot has nothing to do with sending mail.

You're right, of course. Sorry - I was over-tired when I wrote that. You'll have seen that in my reply to mouss, the problem was in dovecot.conf. It's fixed now, thanks.

Anne