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...echnical or customer support line. (5) The following day, when you finally get a support rep on the line, immediately set your system to self-destruct mode with a 5-minute pre-detonation sequence: su touch /etc/nologin countdown 300; halt -D now (6) Commit harakiri. Make certain you perform this step such that neither your head nor your internal fluids hit the keyboard; that might cause the pre-detonation sequence to abort. Be sure to inform the support rep why you are committing harakiri. Offer to sing the rep a Barry Manilow tune...

...ng to setup a mailserver running postfix and dovecot with mysql as database backend. Postfix is already running and delivers mails just fine. Unfortunately, dovecot has great problems connecting to the database (using username + password). If I disable the password, everthing works fine. But, thats harakiri, security wise ;-) I tried dovecot-1.0-stable and the latest cvs-nightly (I think from August 9.). With both versions, I get the following error (there are little differences between the to versions, but the meaning ist the same...) dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to localhos...