[arch-general] imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch - Is this a bug, or do I just override with ignore?

[David C. Rankin]

On 03/10/2010 06:13 AM, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 10.03.2010 05:53, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> 	I'm finishing the mail server setup and I've run into a problem with dovecot.
>> It looks like one part of dovecot doesn't match the other??? Here is what
>> everything log says:
>>
>> Mar  9 22:48:37 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch:
>> Master is v1.2.10, login is v1.2.11 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes)
>> Mar  9 22:48:37 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch:
>> Master is v1.2.10, login is v1.2.11 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes)
>> Mar  9 22:48:52 nirvana dovecot: dovecot: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=18351
>> uid=0 code=kill)
>> Mar  9 22:48:54 nirvana dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.11 starting up (core dumps disabled)
>>
>> 	I just have the standard repositories enabled (no testing or community-testing)
>> for this box. Is there a package out of place that I need to report, or is it
>> just intended that we use 'version_ignore=yes' ?
>>
> 
> If you update dovecot you have to restart the running master daemon
> which is still the old one (/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart) otherwise it will
> try to run newer subprocesses when someone logs in and that fails
> without the mentioned config option. Restarting is better though because
> you could run into incompatibilities.
> It's a feature, not a bug.
> 

DUUUH! (smacks self)

	All is well. Dovecot, Squirrelmail, eGroupWare and Gallery2 all working with
IMAPS just fine.

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