[Dovecot] Quota_rules ignored

[A. Gideonse]

Pascal Volk wrote:
> On 06/18/2009 09:41 AM A. Gideonse wrote:
>> The old dovecot was installed using apt-get, so I tried installing the 
>> new version by downloading, compiling and installing (configure, make, 
>> make install), because I couldn't upgrade the package using apt-get. 
>> After reboot it now shows 1.1.16 for 'dovecot --version'. I can attempt 
>> to remove dovecot with apt-get and reinstall the compiled version again?
> 
> What was the prefix? /usr/local?
> Show: `which dovecot`
> 
> I believe the 'old' one is still running, started via the init script.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Pascal

I just did some research on the server and you are completely right. 
When I look at the /etc/init.d/dovecot script I see that the daemon is 
loaded at /usr/sbin/dovecot. If I request the version in that directory 
I indeed get the old version number. Now my problem is that I seem to 
have to installations of dovecot now, with the older one running and the 
newer one being idle. Is there an easy way to solve this issue? I tried 
stopping the service, then changing the DAEMON variable in the 
/etc/init.d/dovecot file and starting it again, but that didn't work. 
Any suggestions?

Please note: the older version was installed using 'apt-get', the newer 
version was installed by compiling from source. As additional 
information: the server is currently using the JEOS distribution (thus 
Ubuntu).

NB. Thank to Charles, this message will hopefully be posted inline now ;).