I have a couple of questions regarding the default dovecot packaged with RedHat ES 4. The dovecot version is 0.99.11-2.EL4.1 which I assume is considerably behind the current stable version of 0.99.14. Is it the fact that I am using an older version of dovecot that SSHA passwords in an openldap directory are not recognized and give the following error:

dovecot-auth: Unknown password scheme SMD5

?

LDAP is working as expected for NFS maildirs.

I have dovecot 0.99.13 working on fedora core 3, but the stability of fedora leaves much to be desired and would like to get a stable, low maintenance install of dovecot on an enterprise supported linux.

Redhat does not have packages for 0.99.14 and I would rather compile from source if possible. I've specified --with-ldap as part of the configure script, but am wondering if there is anything more to add to support SSHA passwords.

Until dovecot 1.0 is proven in the field, it is not a consideration for the production environment this server is being used for.

Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Mel Llaguno