[Dovecot] Problems with upgrade 2.0.16 -> 2.1.3

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 11:36:33 EET 2012


On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 23.3.2012, at 12.58, Joseph Tam wrote:
>
>> I ran into two issues trying to upgrade our dovecot installation (Solaris 10).
>>
>> 1) Does not compile with OpenSSL 0.9.7
>>
>> 	Not a big deal, as I was able to successfully against OpenSSL 0.9.8,
>> 	but does dovecot require OpenSSL >= 0.9.8 now?
>
> Hm.  Maybe it's time by now? :) It could be fixed with some more
> #ifdefs but those make code more unreadable.

It might still compile with OpenSSL 0.9.7 if it is built with engine
support (the default), but yeah, it's time to move to 0.9.8 or 1.0.0.

>> 2) Dovecot's LDA does not work
>>
>> 	After stopping the the old dovecot, and starting dovecot 2.1.3 using the
>> 	exact same config file, local mail delivery tempfails:
>>
>> 	Mar 23 02:51:51 server dovecot: auth: Error: getpeerucred() failed: Bad address
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/98fd46f8d1ab fixes this?

Spot on, as usual.  Thanks.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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