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Jan
18
2010

Upgraded Dovecot on FreeBSD and Sieve stopped working (Fixed)

I recently upgraded Dovecot (1.1x to 1.2(.8)) on FreeBSD (7.2) and had a slew of issues.
Postfix wasn’t delivering messages
This was because Dovecot wasn’t starting and Postfix couldn’t get the SASL connection that it needed. The fix was to upgrade/install both dovecot and dovecot-sieve ( I use Dovecot’s deliver as my Local Delivery Agent (LDA) ). [...]

Nov
17
2009

one .profile to rule them all

I got sick of having to try to copy and make major modifications for each environment that I was in. As a consultant I sometimes have to deal with ridiculous policy driven constraints as to what software I can or cannot use. Sometimes it’s simply ignorance (like when the CTO of a company said that I could only script in a “…standard shell like BASH…” nothing obscure like KSH) but what ever the case it’s a pain when you’ve grown accustom to something as personal as your shell settings. Now I have a solution.