Ali Erturk TURKER is maintaining a patch which restores to life the vpopmail-auth
driver for Dovecot
(more info here).
Patch and configure as follows. Be aware that an autoreconf
must be provided, as the configure.ac
has been modifed.
patch -p1 < dovecot_x.y.z_vpopmail_auth.patch autoreconf -f -i ./configure \ --other-options-here \ --with-vpopmail
Modifications of the Dovecot
configuration with respect to the sql
driver suggested in my guide (more info here):
File 10-master.conf
service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vpopmail group = vchkpw } user = vpopmail } service auth-worker { user = vpopmail unix_listener auth-worker { user = vpopmail group = vchkpw mode = 0660 } }
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Using the patch on Gentoo
Florian Faber October 1, 2023 12:36
Thanks for the excellent collection of all things around dovecot. I never understood why vpopmail support was removed.
To use vpopmail auth on gentoo, just:
1. mkdir -p /etc/portage/patches/net-mail/dovecot-2.3.20-r3; cd /etc/portage/patches/net-mail/dovecot-2.3.20-r3; wget https://notes.sagredo.eu/files/qmail/patches/vpopmail/dovecot_vpopmail-auth/dovecot_2.3.20_vpopmail_auth_rev01.patch
2. EXTRA_ECONF="--with-vpopmail" emerge -v dovecot
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Using the patch on Gentoo
Roberto Puzzanghera Florian Faber October 1, 2023 12:55
Thanks for sharing!
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