Recently in debian sid version 2.4 appeared and I tried to migrate. it (mostly working) but Neither dovecot-lda nor doveadm does not see current system user context i.e.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- %doveadm mailbox list
Fatal: One of -u, -F, -A or --no-userdb-lookup must be provided --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

from lda logs --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Fatal: Namespace root: mail_storage settings: Failed to parse configuration: Invalid setting mail_path=~/Mail/0/: mail_path setting used home directory (~/) but there is no mail_home and userdb didn't return it --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- for dovecot-lda setting "mail_home = /home/%{user|username}" helped but still ...

doveadm mailbox list -u kjonca and "-d" option helped in both cases

Moreover I found that doveadm does not work when dovecot is stoped (but used to work in 2.3.x)

Another thing is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

in 2.3.x configuration it created line like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 2025-04-27T02:08:31.925845+02:00 alfa dovecot: LDA(kjonca): sieve: msgid=<fd248603-b186-4ee2-9e76-b9b9c0fe7a87@alfa>: fileinto action: stored mail into mailbox 'RSS' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- but now it does not work (what is strange I cannot find %$ description and %m is described as "mechanism" not message id ...)

So how can I have old loggin and authentication mechanisms? KJ

2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f)

OS: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 x86_64 Debian trixie/sid

...

4 default setting change

dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 acl_driver = vfile auth_allow_cleartext = yes auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login auth_username_format = %{user | username } auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 1024M dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED/ lazy_expunge_only_last_instance = yes listen = alfa mail_driver = maildir mail_inbox_path = ~/Mail/0/INBOX mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change save mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mail_log_prefix = "%{protocol}(%{user}): " mail_path = ~/Mail/0/ mail_plugins { acl = yes lazy_expunge = yes } postmaster_address = root@localhost protocols { imap = yes } sieve_execute_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_execute_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_extensions { fileinto = yes reject = yes envelope = yes encoded-character = yes vacation = yes subaddress = yes comparator-i;ascii-numeric = yes relational = yes regex = yes imap4flags = yes copy = yes include = yes body = yes variables = yes enotify = yes environment = yes mailbox = yes date = yes index = yes ihave = yes duplicate = yes mime = yes foreverypart = yes extracttext = yes vnd.dovecot.pipe = yes vnd.dovecot.execute = yes vnd.dovecot.filter = yes vnd.dovecot.debug = yes editheader = yes } sieve_filter_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_filter_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_pipe_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_pipe_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_plugins { sieve_extprograms = yes } ssl = no service auth { user = root unix_listener auth-userdb { } } passdb alfa { default_password_scheme = PLAIN driver = passwd-file passwd_file_path = /etc/security/dovecot.pwd } userdb alfa { passwd_file_path = /etc/security/dovecot.pwd driver = passwd-file } namespace root { inbox = yes separator = / } namespace expunged { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = ~/Mail/expunged/ hidden = yes inbox = no list = no prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } } service imap { } service auth-worker { user = dovecot } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ info_log_path = syslog log_path = syslog mail_plugins { sieve = yes } syslog_facility = mail } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins { mail_log = yes notify = yes acl = yes imap_acl = yes lazy_expunge = yes } } sieve_script personal { path = ~/.dovecot.sieve } sieve_script before { path = /etc/dovecot/sieve }

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