[ATrpms-users] Dovecot-1.1.3-0_80.fc8

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:09:36AM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> I updated to this version of dovecot today.  Then I started having 
>> problems sending emails, and I found the following in my 
>> /var/log/maillog file:
>>
>>> Sep  5 00:01:18 kjc386 dovecot: auth-worker(default): Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.1.2, dovecot-auth is v1.1.3 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes)
>> So I added the following line to my /etc/dovecot.conf file:
>>
>> version_ignore = yes
>>
>> Why is this necessary?  Maybe I should be asking why didn't the Master 
>> version change to 1.1.3 as well?
> 
> I can think of two things:
> 
> o not all of dovecot was restarted (or none at all?). Try restarting
>   dovecot or even rebooting.

I did the install at:

Sep 04 23:20:49 Updated: dovecot - 1:1.1.3-0_80.fc8.i386

Doesn't doing the "yum update" do a "service dovecot restart" 
afterwards?  If not, that was my problem.

Yeup, that was my problem.  I just checked my /var/log/maillog, and 
apparently, after editing my dovecot.conf, I did a restart myself.

Strange, I don't remember running into this before.  Maybe I just have a 
bad memory....

> o You have another (1.1.2) copy of dovecot under /usr/local perhaps?
>   Did you ever build dovecot yourself? Or maybe copied the binaries
>   around?

Nope.   B^)

> I can't imagine that the source code has two different variables for
> dovecot's version, so that the author may forget to update one. But
> that may then also be the case if there is no trace of 1.1.2 anymore
> on your system (disk or memory/running).
> 
> In that case it needs to be reported upstream.

Thanks for the quick response.

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