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News
News
Fri Aug 6 13:48:05 CEST 2021
Released Dovecot v2.3.16 and Pigeonhole v0.5.16.
Mon Jan 4 14:03:16 EET 2021
We have disclosed three new vulnerabilities in dovecot, please see CVE-2020-28200, CVE-2021-29157 and CVE-2021-33515.
Mon Jun 21 14:20:13 EEST 2021
Released Dovecot v2.3.15 and Pigeonhole v0.5.15. Also released a fixes-only v2.3.14.1.
Thu Mar 4 12:21:50 EET 2021
Released Pigeonhole v0.5.14.
Thu Mar 4 12:21:48 EET 2021
Released Dovecot v2.3.14.
Wed Feb 17 16:38:09 EET 2021
Released Pigeonhole v0.5.14.rc1.
Wed Feb 17 16:38:08 EET 2021
Released Dovecot v2.3.14.rc1.
Mon Jan 4 14:02:10 EET 2021
Released v0.5.13.
Mon Jan 4 14:02:10 EET 2021
Released v2.3.13.
Mon Jan 4 14:03:16 EET 2021
We have disclosed two new vulnerabilities in dovecot, please see CVE-2020-25275 and CVE-2020-24386.
Wed Aug 12 16:25:42 EEST 2020
We are happy to announce that we have CentOS 8 packages available starting from v2.3.11.3. You can find these packages at https://repo.dovecot.org/.
Wed Aug 12 16:14:49 EEST 2020
We have disclosed three new vulnerabilities in dovecot, please see CVE-2020-12100, CVE-2020-12673 and CVE-2020-12674.
Wed Aug 12 16:02:20 EEST 2020
Released v2.3.11.3
Mon May 18 15:03:31 EEST 2020
Multiple vulnerabilities in Dovecot
Mon May 18 15:03:06 EEST 2020
Released v2.3.10.1
Fri Mar 6 12:53:51 EET 2020
Released v2.3.10
Wed Feb 12 14:04:52 EET 2020
Released v2.3.9.3
Fri Dec 13 16:16:56 EET 2019
Released v2.3.9.2
Fri Dec 13 12:44:25 EET 2019
Released v2.3.9.1
Wed Dec 4 12:34:24 EET 2019
Released v2.3.9
Wed Oct 9 09:01:32 EEST 2019
Tue Oct 8 14:18:14 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.8
Wed Aug 28 15:05:36 EEST 2019
Released v2.2.36.4.
Wed Aug 28 15:05:36 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.7.2.
Tue Jul 23 16:09:41 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.7.1.
Fri Jul 12 15:29:41 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.7.
Tue Apr 30 16:21:01 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.6.
Thu Apr 18 12:05:43 EEST 2019
Released v2.3.5.2.
Thu Mar 28 13:41:08 EET 2019
Released v2.2.36.3.
Thu Mar 28 13:41:05 EET 2019
Released v2.3.5.1.
Tue Mar 5 18:26:27 EET 2019
Released v2.3.5.
Tue Feb 5 15:08:35 EET 2019
Released v2.3.4.1.
Tue Feb 5 15:10:06 EET 2019
Released v2.2.36.1.
Fri Nov 23 14:30:12 EET 2018
Released v2.3.4.
Mon Oct 1 19:14:18 EEST 2018
Released v2.3.3.
Thu Mar 28 13:41:08 EET 2018
Released v2.3.3 release candidate
Features
Flexible authentication
Dovecot’s user authentication is extremely flexible and feature-rich, supporting many different authentication databases and mechanisms.
Standards compliant
Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot v1.1 passes all IMAP server standard compliancy tests while most other servers fail many of them.
Self-optimizing
Dovecot’s indexes are self-optimizing. They contain exactly what the user’s client commonly needs, no more and no less.
Easy migration
Dovecot supports easy migration from many existing IMAP and POP3 servers, allowing the change to be transparent to existing users.
Self-healing
Dovecot is self-healing. It tries to fix most of the problems it notices by itself, such as broken index files. The problems are however logged so the administrator can later try to figure out what caused them.
Workarounds support
Dovecot supports workarounds for several bugs in IMAP and POP3 clients. Since the workarounds may cause the protocol exchange to be suboptimal, you can enable only the workarounds you need.
Admin-friendly
Dovecot tries to be admin-friendly. Common error messages are made as easily understandable as possible. Any crash, no matter how it happened, is considered a bug that will be fixed.
Security
Dovecot’s design and implementation is highly focused on security. Rather than taking the traditional road of just fixing vulnerabilities whenever someone happens to report them, I offer 1000 EUR of my own money to the first person to find a security hole from Dovecot.
Clustered filesystems compatibilty
Dovecot allows mailboxes and their indexes to be modified by multiple computers at the same time, while still performing well. This means that Dovecot works well with clustered filesystems. NFS has caching problems, but you can work around them with director proxies.
Easily Extensible
Dovecot is easily extensible. Plugins can add new commands, modify existing behavior, add their own data into index files or even add support for new mailbox formats. For example quota and ACL support are completely implemented as plugins.
Status
- Complete IMAP4rev1 and POP3 support. IPv6, SSL and TLS are supported.
- Supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE.
- Shared mailboxes are fully supported in v1.2+. Older versions also support admin-configurable ACL files.
- Maildir++ quota is supported, but hard filesystem quota can be problematic.
- Dovecot is commonly used with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X. See the Wiki page about OS compatibility for more.
Contact Info
Please use the the Dovecot mailing list for questions about Dovecot. You don`t have to subscribe to it
Primary author: Timo Sirainen, tss@iki.fi (Sorry, I don’t have time anymore to answer Dovecot questions privately. If you send me a mail, there’s a good chance you won’t get any answer.)
Commercial licenses provided by Open-Xchange. Commercial support is available from Open-Xchange and others.
Credits
The following companies have helped Dovecot:
- PT.COM / SAPO has sponsored the development of many new features and perfomance improvements.
- Rackspace Email Hosting has sponsored the development of many new features and perfomance improvements.
- Directi has sponsored the development of many new features and perfomance improvements.
There have been many code contributors from other individuals also.