[Dovecot] Dovecot on Solaris x86?

[Bart Smaalders]

Tim Skirvin wrote:
>         I'm trying to get dovecot working on Solaris x86.  I've got it
> working just fine on RH Desktop 4; and while I have a built, limping
> version on solx86, it's not actually usable except from other solx86
> systems.
> 
>         Basic details:
> 
>         Version         1.0rc23
>         OS              Solaris x86 (64 bit)
>         CPU             Opteron
>         Filesystem      NFS (but it's not getting that far)
> 
>         The general problem is apparently SSL-related.  I can connect
> properly from another Solaris x86 machine, using either mutt or straight
> openssl; but when I try mutt from a Solaris or Linux machine, I get the
> error "SSL failed: I/O error" and it fails, and when I use openssl from a
> Linux machine, I get something like this:
> 
> victor ~> stelnet xxxxxxxx.ks.uiuc.edu 993
> + openssl s_client -connect xxxxxxxx.ks.uiuc.edu:993 -verify -debug
> verify depth is 0
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> depth=0 /C=US/ST=Illinois/L=Urbana/O=UIUC/OU=[...]
> verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
> verify return:1
> depth=0 /C=US/ST=Illinois/L=Urbana/O=UIUC/OU=[...]
> verify return:1
> 24748:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:226:
> 
>         Annoyingly, the same command run from a Solaris machine connects,
> even though mutt doesn't.  (I'm using 'mutt -f imaps://xxxx/', which I
> know works elsewhere; and the Linux mutt is the system default one, so I
> don't suspect that it is the source of the problem.)
> 
>         The logs have been remarkably un-useful:
> 
> dovecot: Feb 21 09:41:21 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=[...], lip=[...] TLS handshake
> 
>         The software was built in all cases with:
> 
>          ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap/dovecot-1.0rc23.1
> 
>         I've tried with both Sun's native cc and gcc compilers.  I have
> also tried building on SPARC Solaris with the native cc compiler, to the
> same (negative) effect.  (I used to have v0.99.14 running just fine on
> this SPARC machine, so this worries me... but I only checked it just now
> as an after-thought.)
> 
>         Any suggestions?
> 
>                             - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin at ks.uiuc.edu)

I updated the dovecot wiki a few weeks ago with the details of
the problem.

Here's a link: http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource

- Bart