[Dovecot] unix style mbox and vmail maildir on the same server

[Glen Lee Edwards]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:27 -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 16:10 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm new to dovecott.  Using version 1.0.rc15.
> > 
> > You'd be doing yourself a favor by upgrading first - this is a very 
> > old/buggy version...
> > 
> > The 1.1 release is imminent (at rc5 stage now), so personally I'd move 
> > to that.
> > 
> > You'll have to enable one of the at repositories, but it is available...
> > 
> 
> I'm afraid that's easier said than done.  Debian as a rule uses older
> packages in their stable version.  I just tried to install 1.1.rc5, but
> can't:
> 
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> configure: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not
> found
> 
> Directory: ~/downloads/dovecot-1.1.rc5
> $ locate libmysqlclient
> /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
> /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
> /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15
> /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
> 
> Long story short...I don't have the time to make individual
> customizations to the system so that one program will work only if I
> make wholesale changes to the sytem.  If this would have been a
> simple .configure, make, make-install, then I'd do it.  But it looks
> like I'm going to have to upgrade mysql, which will require other manual
> upgrades.
> 
> Glen

Guess I spoke too soon: apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev was all I
needed to do.

Glen