dovecot - Jan 2006 - vpopmail authentification broken in dovecot 1.0beta

hello, i got

*  net-mail/dovecot
       Latest version available: 1.0_beta2
       Latest version installed: 1.0_beta2
       Size of files: 1,309 kB
       Homepage:      http://dovecot.org/
       Description:   An IMAP and POP3 server written with security 
primarily in mind
       License:       LGPL-2.1

and since dovecot-0.99.14-r1 authentification doesnt work no more.
i posted something similar with dovecot-1.0_alpha5 but all the answers
i got were like "it isnt dovecot's fault, its vpopmails".
bummer, my vpopmail did not changed , but dovecot versions yes.

so i think dovecot is broken with vpopmail auth.

i edited dovecot.conf and enabled all the parts related to vpopmail 
correctly like in old dovecot.conf

here's what i receive in the log:

dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1 
PLAIN   service=POP3    lip=81.18.x.x  rip=81.18.x.x        respdovecot: Jan 31
14:51:28 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT  1
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:28 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT   1 
AGRhbmlAbGlgudXhzb2x1fdGlvbnMucmh8AcG9jcG9j
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:28 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: 
MySQL server has gone away
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:28 Info: auth(default): 
vpopmail(dani@domain.ro,81.18.x.x): unknown user
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:29 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL  1 
user=dani@domain.ro
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:29 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   2 
PLAIN   service=POP3    lip=81.18.x.x  rip=81.18.x.x 
resp=AGRhbmlAbGlgudXhzb2x1fdGlvbnMucmh8AcG9jcG9j
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:29 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: 
MySQL server has gone away
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:29 Info: auth(default): 
vpopmail(dani@domain.ro,81.18.x.x): unknown user
dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:31 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL  2 
user=dani@domain.ro

i tried compiling dovecot with and without mysql support and the log
is the same. vpopmail support is compiled in.

so i use only vpopmail auth, no passdb, no mysql, no ssl.

anyone can help with this error? coz dovecot seems such a nice imap/pop3 
daemon but so much broken since last 0.9 version which is a shame..

thank you.

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On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:53 +0200, daniel petre wrote:
> and since dovecot-0.99.14-r1 authentification doesnt work no more.
> i posted something similar with dovecot-1.0_alpha5 but all the answers
> i got were like "it isnt dovecot's fault, its vpopmails".
> bummer, my vpopmail did not changed , but dovecot versions yes.
> 
> so i think dovecot is broken with vpopmail auth.
vpopmail auth works for some people, so it's not completely broken. It's
possible that 1.0beta does something differently than 0.99.x which
breaks it for you.
> dovecot: Jan 31 14:51:28 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: 
> MySQL server has gone away
But I don't know what I could do for this in Dovecot's side. It clearly
happens in vpopmail's side, so it would require debugging vpopmail code
as well.

Wouldn't it also work if you just made Dovecot directly authenticate
with mysql, and just changed the SQL queries so that they would be
compatible with vpopmail's database?

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