[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org
Sun Aug 15 19:14:17 EEST 2010


> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist:
>> dovenull
>>
>> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why
>> it is necessary.
>
> I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 :
>
>  - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot.
> You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user
> setting.
>

Dovecot 2.x seems to be very close to release grade. Could you provide a
guess as to when it will be released so that I can plan downtime for the
upgrade on my production servers?


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Dennis Clarke
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