[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.beta6 dies when I try to delete a folder with thunderbird

Sven Kirmess sven.kirmess at kzone.ch
Sat Jul 10 17:34:21 EEST 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 14:12, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 21:57 +0200, Sven Kirmess wrote:
>
>> doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in
>> /etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot.conf:86: mail_drop_priv_before_exec
>> has been replaced by service { drop_priv_before_exec }
>> doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file
>> /etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 86: Unknown setting:
>> drop_priv_before_exec
>
> I'd like to figure out the cause of this too.. If you do:
>
> cat > test.conf <<EOF
> mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes
> ssl = no
> EOF
> doveconf -c test.conf > /dev/null
>
> Does it still show you the Fatal: error? It should only log the first
> warning.


Sorry for the slow reply. The heat is killing me. :)


ROOT at azati:dovecot> cat test.conf
mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes
ssl = no
ROOT at azati:dovecot> /opt/dovecot/bin/doveconf -c test.conf >/dev/null
doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in test.conf:1:
mail_drop_priv_before_exec has been replaced by service {
drop_priv_before_exec }
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file test.conf line 1: Unknown
setting: drop_priv_before_exec
ROOT at azati:dovecot> uname -a
SunOS azati 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
ROOT at azati:dovecot>

Yes, still loggs the error. (This is beta 6 btw).


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