Re: recent dovecot trouble

2019-05-20 Thread ghe
On 5/20/19 5:15 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > What'd the problem end up being? Password database went sideways? I'm not sure. Replacing the directory of config files with the dist config dir (and some mild futzing) fixed it. I'm guessing, like you suggest, that something or other in a secret password

Re: recent dovecot trouble

2019-05-20 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ghe wrote: > [...] > And dovecot has been declared a mixed blessing. There are more lines of > code in its eleventy million config files that there are in gcc. And SQL > databases? For an IMAP server? Makes it easy to setup "virtual email" (i.e. one

recent dovecot trouble

2019-05-19 Thread ghe
FWIW, IMAP is back. I copied the dovecot dist config folder to /etc/dovecot and turned plainText passwords back on, and everything came back to life. I have a big collection of email clients now: mutt, clawsMail, Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Geary... And dovecot has been declared a mixed blessing. Ther