I made yet another new wiki page documenting the mail configuration
file. Looks really nice. We can all start working on improving the docs
in this file and eventually merge the docs here back into the example
config file.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MainConfig
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What would be extremely helpful is a really clean explanation of how to set up connections for MySQL. It would have to start with basic information and some real-world examples that make no assumptions, and clearly spell it out without confusion. In fact good examples reduce the need to subscribe to mailing lists and ask dumb questions! The current assumptions in the docs to date are that somehow non-geeks and those of us who have learned far more about email servers than we ever wanted to will somehow "get it" without decent examples. This has got to be the biggest problem using Dovecot. I've tried just about every pop-server I can find and I am about to give up on Dovecot if I can't get the connection to MySQL to work. I just want decent pop server that understands Maildir, now that I went through Cyrus SASL hell and got that working--again with incredibly poor documentation. And I don't give a rats-ass about IMAP, just need a pop server. Maybe IMAP later, for now just a pop server that understands Maildir and comes from open source. I'm using Postfix but it shouldn't matter. So far I've tried the following pop servers: nupop-1.3.9 -- can't compile qmail-1.03 -- a f**ing nightmare cyrus-imap/pop -- poor-to-no docs for pop server -- another nightmare vm-pop3d-1.1.6 -- works only on mbox flexpop-1.0.1 -- no docs , doesn't compile popular-1.5.5 -- docs are too sketchy for installation, too complicated and doesn't work I thought Dovecot would be the last one I have to screw with, but maybe I'm wrong... Thanks, Tim
Thanks but that was of absolutely no help.
Evidently the 1.0alpha version syntax is completely different from the
.99 release.
The 1.0 syntax for setting up dovecot.conf uses brackets "{}" for auth
and other drastic differences, so most of the documentation is either
vacant or out of date.
I tried using the syntax used in the Wiki only to have it die.
There are NO docs for the 1.0 release to help understand how to make
MySQL work with Dovecot.
I've hacked my way along and stumbled into some success, but overall I'd
have to say there is a bug in the software that is preventing it from
connecting. I do not know where else to look or what else to do other
than start to hunt again for yet another pop server. I've spent the
past week downloading, compiling, and trying to get various POP servers
to work, only to have the wheels fall off at one point or another. I'm
so fu**ing close to getting Dovecot to work, but may have to walk away
from yet another disappointing software product. I might downshift to
the .99 release and see if I can get that one to work.
But thanks anyway for your desire to help, it prevented me from leaving
a note and then pulling the trigger.
:-)
Tim