On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:56:54PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:

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Makes me wonder. However my simple test code works fine. Something very fishy going on here.

Just as a datapoint. Here is 1.2.12 on opensolaris 2009.06

While that is very far away from production Solaris 8 it is a valid datapoint. However I did manage to find the ID-Ten-T error that I was having related to a CFLAGS switch of all things.

uname -a

SunOS titan 5.8 Generic_127722-03 i86pc i386 i86pc

/opt/csw/sbin/dovecot --version

1.2.12

/opt/csw/sbin/dovecot --build-options

Build options: ioloop=poll ipv6 openssl Mail storages: maildir mbox raw shared SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: passwd passwd-file prefetch static

If you wonder why it is compiled on a ten year old OS it is because of the Solaris ABI ( Application Binary Interface ) stability in which *anything* that compiles and runs on Solaris 8 will run everywhere else flawlessly. However, your dovecot compiled on that OpenSolaris beta release won't run anywhere else but on that machine. In fact, no promises on that[1] OpenSolaris release either. :-)

Dennis

[1] keep in mind that there ha never been a prod ready release of OpenSolaris. Maybe someday but Oracle isn't talking. :-(