dovecot - Mar 2018 - Debian: Dovecot 2.3.0.1 won't start if dovecot-pop3d is missing

Aki Tuomi, Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:06:35 +0200:
> the problem is default
> ?protocols = imap pop3?
Ah, OK. I wasn't aware that the default had changed. It seems to be
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp
now.
> packaging should use
> protocols > protocols = $protocols imap
Yep, explicitly setting
protocols before
!include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
helps.

IMO Something like that should be changed in the official packages too.

-- 
Regards
  mks

Op 3/2/2018 om 8:58 PM schreef Markus Sch?nhaber:
> Aki Tuomi, Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:06:35 +0200:
>
>> the problem is default
>> ?protocols = imap pop3?
> Ah, OK. I wasn't aware that the default had changed. It seems to be
> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp
> now.
>
>> packaging should use
>> protocols >> protocols = $protocols imap
> Yep, explicitly setting
> protocols > before
> !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
> helps.
>
> IMO Something like that should be changed in the official packages too.
The official packages patch Dovecot to set the protocols to none in the
defaul config.

Regards,

Stephan.

Stephan Bosch, Sat, 3 Mar 2018 08:59:16 +0100:
> Op 3/2/2018 om 8:58 PM schreef Markus Sch?nhaber:
>> Yep, explicitly setting
>> protocols >> before
>> !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
>> helps.
>>
>> IMO Something like that should be changed in the official packages too.
> 
> The official packages patch Dovecot to set the protocols to none in the
> defaul config.
First: Many thanks for providing the package repository!

WRT the default config: doesn't seem so.
I purged all Dovecot packages, removed /etc/dovecot and did
> apt -V install dovecot-imapd dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-managesieved
dovecot-mysql dovecot-sqlite dovecot-solr dovecot-lucene
but the freshly installed dovecot won't start because
/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 is not there.
> # doveconf protocols
> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp imap lmtp sieve
> # LANG=C apt-cache policy dovecot-core 
> dovecot-core:
>   Installed: 2:2.3.0.1-6
>   Candidate: 2:2.3.0.1-6
>   Version table:
>  *** 2:2.3.0.1-6 500
>         500 http://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch
stretch/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2:2.3.0-4 500
>         500 http://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch
stretch/main amd64 Packages
>      2:2.3.0-3 500
>         500 http://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch
stretch/main amd64 Packages
>      2:2.3.0-2 500
>         500 http://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch
stretch/main amd64 Packages
>      2:2.2.34-1~ddt1 500
>         500 http://ddt-web5/stretch stretch/main amd64 Packages
>      1:2.2.27-3+deb9u2 500
>         500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
>      1:2.2.27-3+deb9u1 500
>         500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
> # doveconf -n
> # 2.3.0.1 (ffd8a29): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.0.1 (d33dca2)
> # OS: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.3 
> doveconf: Error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed:
readlink() failed: No such file or directory
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character
vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy
include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate
mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location = 
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix = 
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
> }
> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp imap lmtp sieve
> ssl = no
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }

-- 
Regards
  mks