[gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[michael]

I'm having a problem with dovecot.  I upgraded dovecot yesterday to
0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14
Here's the info:

bullet ~ # /etc/init.d/dovecot start
 * Starting dovecot ...
 * [ ok ]bullet ~ # /etc/init.d/dovecot status
  * status:  started
bullet ~ # ps ax | grep 'dovecot'
  10223 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep dovecot
bullet ~ # netstat | grep '143'
bullet ~ # /etc/init.d/dovecot stop
   * Stopping dovecot ...
   * [ !! ]


I checked the logs for recent occurrences of "dovecot" and this is all I
found:  

Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

I don't know how to fix a broken pipe.  Any advice?  espersunited.com
addresses are still receiving mail, but in order to actually read it we
have to sshell over to bullet and use mutt, which is somewhat
inconvenient as our users are more accustomed to GUI mail clients...
-Michael Sullivan

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Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[Holly Bostick]

michael@espersunited.com schreef:
> I'm having a problem with dovecot.  I upgraded dovecot yesterday to 
> 0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14


I don't know how to fix your problem (sorry); just wanted to mention
that the reason that the version is still claimed to be 0.99.14 is
because it *is* 0.99.14-- usually revisions (-r#) relate to the *ebuild*
being revised, not the program.  If the program is itself revised,
upstream changes the version number most of the time; for example to
0.99.15, indicating a relatively minor release update. This is a good
thing, because if the source has changed, you will then have to download
a new tarball due to the new release number, whereas if Gentoo revised
an updated tarball with an -r1, you would probably miss the changes,
because the old tarball would still be in /distfiles/ and Portage would
not think it had to download a new one.

Good luck with solving the issue with the program itself.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:53 -0600, michael@espersunited.com wrote:

> I'm having a problem with dovecot.  I upgraded dovecot yesterday to
> 0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14

Dovecot is version 0.99.14, the r1 refers to the ebuild revision.

> Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

What version of dovecot were you running before. There was a config file
format change a while ago (on ~x86, I don't know when it affected
stable). The source of the error looks familiar, did you update the
config file after emerging the new version?


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Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:33 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:53 -0600, michael@espersunited.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm having a problem with dovecot.  I upgraded dovecot yesterday to
> > 0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14
> 
> Dovecot is version 0.99.14, the r1 refers to the ebuild revision.
> 
> > Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> > Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> > Nov 25 11:46:09 bullet pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> 
> What version of dovecot were you running before. There was a config file
> format change a while ago (on ~x86, I don't know when it affected
> stable). The source of the error looks familiar, did you update the
> config file after emerging the new version?

I guess I was using version 0.99.13 because I emerged that version of
dovecot and everything works fine now.  When I emerged v0.99.14-r1 and
told it to go ahead and replace /etc/dovecot.conf since I hadn't altered
the previous version.  In what way was I supposed to alter the config
file?

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Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:36:13 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> > What version of dovecot were you running before. There was a config
> > file format change a while ago (on ~x86, I don't know when it affected
> > stable). The source of the error looks familiar, did you update the
> > config file after emerging the new version?
> 
> I guess I was using version 0.99.13 because I emerged that version of
> dovecot and everything works fine now.  When I emerged v0.99.14-r1 and
> told it to go ahead and replace /etc/dovecot.conf since I hadn't altered
> the previous version.  In what way was I supposed to alter the config
> file?

Looking at the versions of dovecot available, that may not be the issue.
I see that I am running 1.0_alpha2 and have been since September, I had
0.99.14-r1 for the previous six months, so the config change was for
1.0_alpha.

Sorry your problem must be elsewhere, but I'd start by looking at the
pop3-login section of /etc/dovecot.conf.


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