dovecot update warning

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Aug 21 22:33:16 UTC 2009


Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just a warning to anyone running dovecot and cmusieve.
> 
> The new dovecot-1.2.3-1.fc11.x86_64 I just updated to
> includes a native sieve plugin and the dovecot-sieve rpm
> includes nothing that resembles a cmusieve plugin.
> 
> This mean that unless you have softbounce turned on
> (from previous bad experiences :-), you'll basically
> lose all incoming mail till you fix things.
> 
> Fortunately, the fix is pretty simple: Change the
> plugin name "cmusieve" in the /etc/dovecot.conf file
> to just "sieve".
> 
> Details at:
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve
> 
You should report this as a bug. Appreciate the warning, but lots of people 
don't follow this list.

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