Scratch this because this was set in my dovecot.conf..... and had not made any difference .... Is the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf used anymore, because dovecot is not listening on any ports !

I've looked on the wiki and only Basic Configuration is noted so I don't know if I should use: service imap-login { chroot = login inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 3993

or some syntax. Any body?

Off topic, Debian does not include the documentation directory with its packages: # cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config -su: cd: /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config: No such file or directory

Regards, S

On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote:

Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:52

Hi,

Just noticed

mode = 0666

should be set for auth-userdb

however I see its not set in my converted dovecot.conf and think I should set this in the conf.d/10-master.conf, but I don't know which permissions should be secure and if secure permissions, then how should postfix interact with this or deliver to mail stores that are owned by xxx ?

On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote:

Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:44

Hi,

  I just upgraded from version 1 to version on Debian Squeeze using their backports.

Like I expected my dovecot1 config had to be converted using doveconf and this I did.

However, I see problems with files inside directory: drwxr-xr-x 4 dovenull root 4096 Feb 25 20:35 /var/run/dovecot

All of them were created owned by root:root rw.

I tried to changed, for example : chown postfix:dovecot /var/run/dovecot/auth-master but noticed when I restarted dovecot it reset the permissions back to root:root rw.

Here's the version: # dovecot --version 2.1.7

Here's my slightly redacted conf. # grep -v ^# dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$ auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 106 log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/xx/%d/%u/ mail_plugins = quota mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=262144:messages=20000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=282144:messages=23000 } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 3993 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 24 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 48 M } service pop3-login { chroot = login process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 24 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 48 M } ssl = required ssl_ca =

I really don't understand how I should make this work, and the after I read the docs on dovecot.org and googled I realised I was really lost getting this back up and runing :(

I should be really grateful if somebody would give me some advice.

Thanks, Soph'

Downgraded successfully and dovecot 1 works and I shan't use Dovecot 2 because this was too confused to upgrade to.

I think lots of you will think "Moron should have read the instructions RTFM" and well you're right but I could not find them :(

If anybody's interested for downgrading on Squeeze: apt-get purge dovecot-* ( like dovecot-common and all of her other bits) remove backports lines from sources.lst rm -r /etc/dovecot/* just to be sure. apt-get update apt-get install dovecot-common dovecot-imapd copy your dovecot version 1 confs into /etc/dovecot Done :)

On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote:

Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 17:14

Hi,

Looks like I've run out of time and have to roll back from version 2 to version 1 and stick with version 1.

I have dpkgs for version 1 and my orginal configuration files and think I'll have to stick with Debian Squeeze and never use Wheezy because that does not carry Dovecot 1.

Does any debian dovecot peeps know if this is all the packages I need?

dovecot-common_1.2.15-7_amd64.deb dovecot-dbg_1.2.15-7_amd64.deb dovecot-dev_1.2.15-7_amd64.deb dovecot-imapd_1.2.15-7_amd64.deb dovecot-pop3d_1.2.15-7_amd64.deb mysqmail-dovecot-logger_0.4.9-7_amd64.deb

On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote:

Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 17:06

Scratch this because this was set in my dovecot.conf.....  and had not made any difference .... Is the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf used anymore, because dovecot is not listening on any ports !

I've looked on the wiki and only Basic Configuration is noted so I don't know if I should use: service imap-login { chroot = login inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 3993

or some syntax.  Any body?

Off topic, Debian does not include the documentation directory with its packages: # cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config -su: cd: /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config: No such file or directory

Regards, S

On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote:

  Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:52 Hi, Just noticed mode = 0666 should be set for auth-userdb however I see its not set in my converted dovecot.conf and think I should set this in the conf.d/10-master.conf, but I don't know which permissions should be secure and if secure permissions, then how should postfix interact with this or deliver to mail stores that are owned by xxx ? -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L sloewent@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:44 Hi, I just upgraded from version 1 to version on Debian Squeeze using their backports. Like I expected my dovecot1 config had to be converted using doveconf and this I did. However, I see problems with files inside directory: drwxr-xr-x 4 dovenull root 4096 Feb 25 20:35 /var/run/dovecot All of them were created owned by root:root rw. I tried to changed, for example : chown postfix:dovecot /var/run/dovecot/auth-master but noticed when I restarted dovecot it reset the permissions back to root:root rw. Here's the version: # dovecot --version 2.1.7 Here's my slightly redacted conf. # grep -v ^# dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$ auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 106 log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/xx/%d/%u/ mail_plugins = quota mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=262144:messages=20000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=282144:messages=23000 } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 3993 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 24 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 48 M } service pop3-login { chroot = login process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 24 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 48 M } ssl = required ssl_ca =