[Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..

[daniel petre]

i dont think its vpopmail's fault, since THIS running version is OKAY:

delfix ~ # emerge -s dovecot
Searching...
[ Results for search key : dovecot ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  net-mail/dovecot
       Latest version available: 1.0_alpha5
       Latest version installed: 0.99.14-r1
       Size of downloaded files: 1,236 kB
       Homepage:    http://dovecot.org/
       Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security 
primarily in mind
       License:     LGPL-2.1



Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 02:52 +0200, daniel petre wrote:
> 
>>dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: 
>>MySQL server has gone away
> 
> ..
> 
>>anyone encountered this?
>>mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully.
>>what am i missing?
> 
> 
> That error message is coming from vpopmail libraries, and it looks like
> it at least thinks it can't connect to MySQL. Looks to me like the
> problem is in vpopmail's side. There isn't really anything that can be
> configured for vpopmail from Dovecot's side.
> 
> 
> 


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