From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Dovecot comes without vpopmail authentication compiled in binary provided by the rpm package. When dovecot is compiled from source with default configure options vpopmail authentication mechanism is included. What are the reasons Fedora rpm to come without it? Can it be included in next update? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dovecot-0.99.10.4-4 and the dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC1 update How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dovecot rpm 2. Edit /etc/dovecot.conf to use vpopmail authentication 3. Start dovecot (/etc/init.d/dovecot start) Actual Results: snippet from maillog: --- Jun 21 12:42:18 mail dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jun 21 12:42:20 mail dovecot-auth: Unknown userdb type 'vpopmail' Jun 21 12:42:20 mail dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 21 12:42:20 mail dovecot: child 18802 (auth) returned error 89 Jun 21 12:42:20 mail imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Jun 21 12:42:20 mail last message repeated 2 times --- Additional info:
We cannot fix this without including vpopmail in the Fedora distribution, which will not happen. The best you can do is rebuild the SRPM when vpopmail is installed on your system. WONTFIX... unless Timo can do something upstream, but that is doubtful.