I did the migration and all looks clear. A few notes from the experience...
The dovecot RPM installs the /etc/dovecot/toaster.conf file which has the following config by default: # Settings for 'stock' qmail-toaster ... protocols = imap pop3 ... This means that dovecot wants to work for imap and pop3 "out of the box." It wouldn't start until I commented out the pop3 part: ... protocols = imap #pop3 ... I have no problem using dovecot for both so I followed the qmailtoaster "Replacing Courier IMAP with Dovecot IMAP" wiki under "Dovecot POP3" (all of it, uncomment the "# pop3_uido_format = %f" line, clients won't like reloading 150 duplicate emails...), uncommented the pop3 protocol and restarted dovecot. Outlook POP3 clients had no errors but, Thunderbird, Android and iPhone mailers did. It's an easy (client) setting change to encrypt passwords through SSL or STARTTLS; maybe not a convenient hiccup but it is far better than plain text password authentication. The dovecot wiki has a workaround for Thunderbird but, mine is a small group of clients so it's no great shakes. I also "Timekeeping" cron job just for good measure... Thank you for all the help and work! I hope this also answers questions from others. Thomas M. Jaeger From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:11:49 -0400 Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: Dovecot migration failure, courier revert failure Thank you for all the help. Just to clarify, do I want the dovecot-2.2.7-0*.rpm or the dovecot-mysql*.rpm? I am using MySQL for passwords. Thanks. Thomas M. Jaeger > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:33:10 -0700 > Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: Dovecot migration failure, courier revert failure > > On 03/16/2014 03:20 PM, Thomas M Jaeger wrote: > > On 03/16/2014 05:23 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > >> > >> The dovecot package included with COS doesn't have the vpopmail option > >> included in the build, so it can't authenticate against vpopmail > >> accounts. I'm guessing that might have been your problem. > >> > >> Which dovecot version did you install? (or how did you install it?) > > > > I followed what I interpreted from the qmailtoaster wiki: > > ============================================= > > *Install *** > > > > RPMS are available for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64 in the QmailToaster-Plus > > (QTP) repository <http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/repos>. If your QMT is > > running an available distro/version/arch and you have > > qmailtoaster-plus.repo installed, you can use yum to install dovecot: > > > > # rpm -Uvhhttp://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/trac/downloads/1 > > # yum --enablerepo=qtp-CentOS install dovecot > > > > If your QMT is running on a different distro/version, you'll need to > > download the source rpm, then build and install the binary rpm for your > > distro/version, e.g: > > > > # cd /my/rpmbuild/SRPMS > > # wgethttp://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/repos/SRPMS/dovecot-2.0.11-2.qtp.src.rpm > > # rpmbuild --rebuild dovecot-*.src.rpm > > # rpm -ivh ../RPMS/*86*/dovecot-*.rpm > > > > That might not work exactly, but you get the idea. > > ============================================= > > > > > > /var/log/yum.log shows this dovecot version/package: > > > > ============================================= > > ... > > Mar 13 11:58:51 Installed: dovecot-1.0.7-8.el5_9.1.x86_64 > > Mar 14 14:55:09 Erased: dovecot > > ... > > ============================================= > > > > Checking the qtp.qmailtoaster.com link now...there seems to be an issue > > with the site? Is there a different server (that needs to be updated on > > the wiki)? > > > > I hope this is, otherwise, great news; that I can do the manual rebuild > > successfully. If there is an easier change for the CentOS REPO yum > > install (replacing or editing configure files), is that info somewhere > > here (in the mailing list)? Or do you have a different strategy to > > try? I didn't see a Dovecot install option in the qtp-menu. (Maybe I > > missed something...?) > > > > Thank you, again! > > > > -- > > > > Thomas M. Jaeger > > > > Sorry about QTP. Disk drive filled up. It's back now. > > Looks like you have an incompatible version of dovecot all right. > > I wouldn't bother building your own package. > > You can go with the qtp version, but that's a little old. > > I'd use the version here: > http://mirrors.qmailtoaster.com/testing/CentOS/5/x86_64/ > I have this version running in production on COS6/i386 with no problems. > It should be fine on COS5. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
