Re: Dovecot problem after last sid update

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 22:22:06 debian-user-digest-
request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the
> > contents of any emails
> >
> > I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I
> > don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it
> > to go in the first place.
> >
> > Here is the output of dovecot -n
> >
> > # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > # OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 i686 Debian 5.0
> > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> > disable_plaintext_auth: no
> > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> > login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> > mail_location: ~/Maildir
> > auth default:
> >  passdb:
> >    driver: passwd-file
> >    args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
> >  userdb:
> >    driver: passwd
> >
> >
> > TIA for any clues as what to do next.
>
> Anything in /var/log/syslog?
>
> Also, have you tried writing a small Perl/Python script to peek into
> the IMAP store?

Nothing of any information anywhere. So one must .... listen!

I had mine listening to [..], that is ipv6 and maybe some ipv4 as cited in the 
conf file's copius comments. Well, those "some" ipv4, alas has flown away.
Listening to *,[..] (in other words both ipv4 and ipv6, covering all bases) 
fixed it. Feuwwww!