January 2012 - Dovecot-news

FOSDEM
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

I'll be in FOSDEM giving a small lightning talk about Dovecot: http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/dovecot I'll also be around in FOSDEM the whole time, so if you're there and want to talk to me about anything, send me an email at some point. Poll to dovecot-news list people: Do you want to see these kind of news about my upcoming talks sent to the list? Probably happens a few times/year. A simple "yes" or "no" reply to this mail privately to me is enough.

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v2.1.rc5 released
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc5.tar.gz.sig I'm still lagging behind reading emails. v2.1.0 will be released after I've finished that. RC5 is already stable and used in production, but I want to make sure that I haven't missed anything important that was reported previously. Most of the recent fixed bugs existed also in v2.0 series. Changes since rc3: * Temporary authentication failures sent to IMAP/POP3 clients now includes the server's hostname and timestamp. This makes it easier to find the error message from logs. + auth: Implemented support for Postfix's "TCP map" sockets for user existence lookups. + auth: Idling auth worker processes are now stopped. This reduces error messages about MySQL disconnections. - director: With >2 directors ring syncing might have stalled during director connect/disconnect, causing logins to fail. - LMTP client/proxy: Fixed potential hanging when sending (big) mails - Compressed mails with external attachments (dbox + SIS + zlib) failed sometimes with bogus "cached message size wrong" errors. (I skipped rc4 release, because I accidentally tagged it too early in hg.)

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Dovecot Solutions company update
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, A small update: My Dovecot support company finally has web pages: http://www.dovecot.fi/ We've also started providing 24/7 support.

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v2.1.rc3 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz.sig Whops, rc2 was missing a file. I always run "make distcheck", which should catch these, but recently it has always failed due to clang static checking giving one "error" that I didn't really want to fix. Because of that the distcheck didn't finish and didn't check for the missing file. So, anyway, I've made clang happy again, and now that I see how bad idea it is to just ignore the failed distcheck, I won't do that again in future. :)

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v2.1.rc2 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc2.tar.gz.sig Lots of fixes since rc1. Some of the changes were larger than I wanted at RC stage, but they had to be done now.. Hopefully it's all over now, and we can have v2.1.0 soon. :) Some of the more important changes: * dsync was merged into doveadm. There is still "dsync" symlink pointing to "doveadm", which you can use the old way for now. The preferred ways to run dsync are "doveadm sync" (for old "dsync mirror") and "doveadm backup". + IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension to describe mailboxes + Added mailbox {} sections, which deprecate autocreate plugin + lib-fs: Added "mode" parameter to "posix" backend to specify mode for created files/dirs (for mail_attachment_dir). + inet_listener names are now used to figure out what type the socket is when useful. For example naming service auth { inet_listener } to auth-client vs. auth-userdb has different behavior. + Added pop3c (= POP3 client) storage backend. - LMTP proxying code was simplified, hopefully fixing its problems. - dsync: Don't remove user's subscriptions for subscriptions=no namespaces.

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v2.0.17 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.17.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.17.tar.gz.sig Among other changes: + Proxying now supports sending SSL client certificate to server with ssl_client_cert/key settings. + doveadm dump: Added support for dumping dbox headers/metadata. - Fixed memory leaks in login processes with SSL connections - vpopmail support was broken in v2.0.16

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