v2.2.30 released

[Timo Sirainen]

At least doveconf -n output would help. I guess related to authentication settings. Are there any errors in logs?

> On 1 Jun 2017, at 12.14, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 30 May 2017 at 21:16, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> 
>> https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.30.tar.gz
>> https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.30.tar.gz.sig
>> 
>> * auth: Use timing safe comparisons for everything related to
>>   passwords. It's unlikely that these could have been used for
>>   practical attacks, especially because Dovecot delays and flushes all
>>   failed authentications in 2 second intervals. Also it could have
>>   worked only when passwords were stored in plaintext in the passdb.
>> * master process sends SIGQUIT to all running children at shutdown,
>>   which instructs them to close all the socket listeners immediately.
>>   This way restarting Dovecot should no longer fail due to some
>>   processes keeping the listeners open for a long time.
>> 
>> + auth: Add passdb { mechanisms=none } to match separate passdb lookup
>> + auth: Add passdb { username_filter } to use passdb only if user
>>   matches the filter. See https://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase
>> + dsync: Add dsync_commit_msgs_interval setting. It attempts to commit
>>   the transaction after saving this many new messages. Because of the
>>   way dsync works, it may not always be possible if mails are copied
>>   or UIDs need to change.
>> + imapc: Support imapc_features=search without ESEARCH extension.
>> + imapc: Add imapc_features=fetch-bodystructure to pass through remote
>>   server's FETCH BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE.
>> + imapc: Add quota=imapc backend to use GETQUOTA/GETQUOTAROOT on the
>>   remote server.
>> + passdb imap: Add allow_invalid_cert and ssl_ca_file parameters.
>> + If dovecot.index.cache corruption is detected, reset only the one
>>   corrupted mail instead of the whole file.
>> + doveadm mailbox status: Add "firstsaved" field.
>> + director_flush_socket: Add old host's up/down and vhost count as
>> parameters
>> - More fixes to automatically fix corruption in dovecot.list.index
>> - dsync-server: Fix support for dsync_features=empty-header-workaround
>> - imapc: Various bugfixes, including infinite loops on some errors
>> - IMAP NOTIFY wasn't working for non-INBOX if IMAP client hadn't
>>   enabled modseq tracking via CONDSTORE/QRESYNC.
>> - fts-lucene: Fix it to work again with mbox format
>> - Some internal error messages may have contained garbage in v2.2.29
>> - mail-crypt: Re-encrypt when copying/moving mails and per-mailbox keys
>>   are used. Otherwise the copied mails can't be opened.
>> - vpopmail: Fix compiling
>> 
> 
> 
> Upgraded a 2.2.29 to this one and all hell broke loose! All users (MS
> Outlook!) were being prompted for mail password! They'd enter it, mail is
> fetched, and on the next check (even though the password had always been
> saved) they'd be prompted again. So I quickly reverted to 2.2.29 and peace
> prevailed.
> 
> Now I am just wondering what exactly is causing this and how to fix it if I
> am to come to 2.2.30.1
> 
> 
> 
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