OK, who did what to dovecot?

[Neal Becker]

Tom Horsley wrote:

> Using dovecot's "deliver" agent in my ~/.forward file was working fine
> till I installed updates last night, then found all my mail had
> bounced into the aether this morning because deliver could no
> longer read /etc/dovecot.conf to get mailbox and filter settings.
> 
> I found an /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew file and I also found that
> my /etc/dovecot.conf file had changed from 644 to 640. I changed
> it back to 644, but all the mail that came in during the night
> apparent completely disappeared (which did at least lead me to
> discover postfix's "soft_bounce" option, which is, as of this
> morning, set to "yes" instead of "no" :-).
> 
> Anyone know what is actually supposed to be going on with this
> stuff? I don't want every dovecot update to break things again.
> 

I noticed that dovecot stopped accepting ~/ to specify maildir - I changed to %h.  Look in /var/log/maillog iirc.