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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.15.rc1 for Dovecot v2.2.25.rc1.
by Stephan Bosch 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Hello Dovecot users, This upcoming release is all about bug fixes, of which only one is really important. It affects the new imapsieve plugin. Changelog v0.4.15: - imapsieve plugin: For any mail transaction, the mailbox was opened a second time, even if no mailbox rule matched. This was unintentional, useless and caused problems when the imapsieve plugin was used with other plugins like acl. - extprograms plugin: Significantly improved error handling. No stream errors were logged. - Several small fixes based on static analysis. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.15… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.15… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release candidate and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v2.2.25 release candidate released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.25.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.25.rc1.tar.gz.sig Quite a lot of changes. Please test out before the final v2.2.25 release, which I'm planning for tomorrow. Especially the new lib-dcrypt might have compiling problems with some OpenSSL versions. * lmtp: Start tracking lmtp_user_concurrency_limit and reject already at RCPT TO stage. This avoids MTA unnecessarily completing DATA only to get an error. * doveadm: Previously only mail settings were read from protocol doveadm { .. } section. Now all settings are. + quota: Added quota_over_flag_lazy_check setting. It avoids checking quota_over_flag always at startup. Instead it's checked only when quota is being read for some other purpose. + auth: Added a new auth policy service: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Policy + auth: Added PBKDF2 password scheme + auth: Added %{auth_user}, %{auth_username} and %{auth_domain} + auth: Added ":remove" suffix to extra field names to remove them. + auth: Added "delay_until=<timestamp>[+<max random secs>]" passdb extra field. The auth will wait until <timestamp> and optionally some randomness and then return success. + dict proxy: Added idle_msecs=<n> parameter. Support async operations. + Performance improvements for handling large mailboxes. + Added lib-dcrypt API for providing cryptographic functions. + Added "doveadm mailbox update" command + imap commands' output now includes timing spent on the "syncing" stage if it's larger than 0. + cassandra: Added metrics=<path> to connect setting to output internal statistics in JSON format every second to <path>. + doveadm mailbox delete: Added -e parameter to delete only empty mailboxes. Added --unsafe option to quickly delete a mailbox, bypassing lazy_expunge and quota plugins. + doveadm user & auth cache flush are now available via doveadm-server. + doveadm service stop <services> will stop specified services while leaving the rest of Dovecot running. + quota optimization: Avoid reading mail sizes for backends which don't need them (count, fs, dirsize) + Added mailbox { autoexpunge_max_mails=<n> } setting. + Added welcome plugin: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Welcome + fts: Added fts_autoindex_exclude setting. - v2.2.24's MIME parser was assert-crashing on mails having truncated MIME headers. - auth: With multiple userdbs the final success/failure result wasn't always correct. The last userdb's result was always used. - doveadm backup was sometimes deleting entire mailboxes unnecessarily. - doveadm: Command -parameters weren't being sent to doveadm-server. - If dovecot.index read failed e.g. because mmap() reached VSZ limit, an empty index could have been opened instead, corrupting the mailbox state. - imapc: Fixed EXPUNGE handling when imapc_features didn't have modseq. - lazy-expunge: Fixed a crash when copying failed. Various other fixes. - fts-lucene: Fixed crash on index rescan. - auth_stats=yes produced broken output - dict-ldap: Various fixes - dict-sql: NULL values crashed. Now they're treated as "not found".

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.14 for Dovecot v2.2.24.
by Stephan Bosch 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hello Dovecot users, The most important feature that this new release adds is the IMAPSIEVE capability, which allows executing Sieve scripts at IMAP events. It also adds the ability to obtain trace logs from Sieve execution at actual delivery (or from IMAP), rather than only using the sieve-test command line tool. This release also fixes a bug in the Sieve extprograms plugin that has been bothering a few people for a while now. Changelog v0.4.14: * The address test now allows specifying the X-Original-To header. + Implemented the Sieve imapsieve extension and its IMAP counterpart (RFC 6785) as a set of plugins. This allows running Sieve scripts at IMAP activity, rather than at delivery. There are also facilities for the familiar sieve_before/sieve_after administrator scripts. A user script is defined for a mailbox using an IMAP METADATA entry, whereas administrator scripts are configured using mailbox matching rules defined in the plugin settings. + Adjusted the Sieve ihave extension to allow capability tests to be performed at runtime. This way, scripts can be written that work both at delivery and from IMAP. + Implemented support for runtime trace debugging. This means that detailed information about which commands, actions and tests are performed is written to a file. That file is created in the configured directory, but only if that directory exists. This way, a particular user can be easily singled out for debugging. This works much like the Dovecot rawlog facility. The trace output is identical to what is produced using sieve-test with its "-t" command line option. + Added a "sieve_user_email" setting that configures the user's primary email address. This is mainly useful to have a user email address available in IMAP, where envelope data is unavailable. + Implemented the dovecot-specific "vnd.dovecot.report" extension. This allows sending report messages in the Message Abuse Reporting Format (RFC 5965). - extprograms plugin: Fixed epoll() panic caused by closing the output FD before the output stream. - Made sure that the local part of a mail address is encoded properly using quoted string syntax when it is not a dot-atom. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.14.ta… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.14.ta… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v2.2.24 released
by Timo Sirainen 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.24.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.24.tar.gz.sig This should be a good release. :) * doveconf now warns if it sees a global setting being changed when the same setting was already set inside some filters. (A common mistake has been adding more plugins to a global mail_plugins setting after it was already set inside protocol { .. }, which caused the global setting to be ignored for that protocol.) * LMTP proxy: Increased default timeout 30s -> 125s. This makes it less likely to reach the timeout and cause duplicate deliveries. * LMTP and indexer now append ":suffix" to session IDs to make it unique for the specific user's delivery. (Fixes duplicate session ID warnings in stats process.) + Added dict-ldap for performing read-only LDAP dict lookups. + lazy-expunge: All mails can be saved to a single specified mailbox. + mailbox { autoexpunge } supports now wildcards in mailbox names. + doveadm HTTP API: Added support for proxy commands + imapc: Reconnect when getting disconnected in non-selected state. + imapc: Added imapc_features=modseq to access MODSEQs/HIGHESTMODSEQ. This is especially useful for incremental dsync. + doveadm auth/user: Auth lookup performs debug logging if -o auth_debug=yes is given to doveadm. + Added passdb/userdb { auth_verbose=yes|no } setting. + Cassandra: Added user, password, num_threads, connect_timeout and request_timeout settings. + doveadm user -e <value>: Print <value> with %variables expanded. - Huge header lines could have caused Dovecot to use too much memory (depending on config and used IMAP commands). (Typically this would result in only the single user's process dying with out of memory due to reaching service { vsz_limit } - not a global DoS). - dsync: Detect and handle invalid/stale -s state string better. - dsync: Fixed crash caused by specific mailbox renames - auth: Auth cache is now disabled passwd-file. It was unnecessary and it broke %variables in extra fields. - fts-tika: Don't crash if it returns 500 error - dict-redis: Fixed timeout handling - SEARCH INTHREAD was crashing - stats: Only a single fifo_listeners was supported, making it impossible to use both auth_stats=yes and mail stats plugin. - SSL errors were logged in separate "Stacked error" log lines instead of as part of the disconnection reason. - MIME body parser didn't handle properly when a child MIME part's --boundary had the same prefix as the parent.

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v2.3 development tree forked in git
by Timo Sirainen 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

The git master branch starts tracking Dovecot v2.3 development from now on. There are soon going to be several API changes there that might break plugins. If you wish to keep tracking latest v2.2.x development instead, switch to master-2.2 branch. The nightly releases at http://dovecot.org/nightly/ will also track v2.3 tree.

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v2.2.23 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.23.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.23.tar.gz.sig This is a bugfix-only release with various important fixes on top of v2.2.22. - Various fixes to doveadm. Especially running commands via doveadm-server was broken. - director: Fixed user weakness getting stuck in some situations - director: Fixed a situation where directors keep re-sending different states to each others and never becoming synced. - director: Fixed assert-crash related to a slow "user killed" reply - Fixed assert-crash related to istream-concat, which could have been triggered at least by a Sieve script.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.13 for Dovecot v2.2.22.
by Stephan Bosch 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Hello Dovecot users, Here is the final v0.4.13 release of Pigeonhole for Dovecot v2.2.22. Nothing changed since the RC. Changelog v0.4.13: * redirect action: Added the list-id header to the duplicate ID for mail loop prevention. This means that the message sent directly to the user and the message coming through the mailing list itself are treated as different messages by the loop detection of the redirect command, even though their Message-ID may be identical. * Changed the Sieve number type to uint64_t, which means that Sieve numbers can now technically range up to 2^64. Some other Sieve implementation allowed this, making this change necessary for successful migration. + Implemented the sieve_implicit_extensions setting. The extensions listed in this setting do not need to be enabled explicitly using the Sieve "require" command. This behavior directkly violates the standard, but can be necessary for compatibility with some existing implementations of Sieve. Do not use this setting unless you really need to! - redirect action: Made mail loop detection more robust by forcibly adding a Message-ID header if it is missing. - Prevent logging a useless "script not found" error message for LDAP scripts for which the entry exists but no attribute containing a script. This is not necessarily an error. - extprograms plugin: Changed the communication channel between parent and child process for a directly forked program from a socketpair to a double pipe. Linux does not support /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and friends for sockets. For some shell program authors this may be confusing, so that is why it is changed. When using the script service, these device nodes are still not usable though. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13.ta… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13.ta… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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Xi has a new home
by Stephan Bosch 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi, The automatic package builder Xi has moved to system within the Dovecot infrastructure. This also means that the repositories are available at a new host name: xi.dovecot.fi. The old host name still works and is a CNAME pointing to the new venue. I expect the old domain to be active for years to come. So, there is no need to update your /etc/apt/sources.list right away. Still, it is a good idea to do so. I've updated the wiki accordingly. Regards, Stephan.

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v2.2.22 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.22.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.22.tar.gz.sig + Added doveadm HTTP API: See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol/HTTP + virtual plugin: Mailbox filtering can now be done based on the mailbox metadata. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual + stats: Added doveadm stats reset to reset global stats. + stats: Added authentication statistics if auth_stats=yes. + dsync, imapc, pop3c & pop3-migration: Many optimizations, improvements and error handling fixes. + doveadm: Most commands now stop soon after SIGINT/SIGTERM. - auth: Auth caching was done too aggressively when %variables were used in default_fields, override_fields or LDAP pass/user_attrs. userdb result_* were also ignored when user was found from cache. - imap: Fixed various assert-crashes caused v2.2.20+. Some of them caught actual hangs or otherwise unwanted behavior towards IMAP clients. - Expunges were forgotten in some situations, for example when pipelining multiple IMAP MOVE commands. - quota: Per-namespaces quota were broken for dict and count backends in v2.2.20+ - fts-solr: Search queries were using OR instead of AND as the separator for multi-token search queries in v2.2.20+. - Single instance storage support wasn't really working in v2.2.16+ - dbox: POP3 message ordering wasn't working correctly. - virtual plugin: Fixed crashes related to backend mailbox deletions.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.13.rc1 for Dovecot v2.2.22.rc1.
by Stephan Bosch 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole v0.4.12 still compiles against Dovecot v2.2.22.rc1, but only with warnings. That is the primary reason for this new release. However, there are also a few significant changes as listed below. When no significant problems are reported, a definitive release will follow closely after Dovecot v2.2.22 is released. Changelog v0.4.13: * redirect action: Added the list-id header to the duplicate ID for mail loop prevention. This means that the message sent directly to the user and the message coming through the mailing list itself are treated as different messages by the loop detection of the redirect command, even though their Message-ID may be identical. * Changed the Sieve number type to uint64_t, which means that Sieve numbers can now technically range up to 2^64. Some other Sieve implementation allowed this, making this change necessary for successful migration. + Implemented the sieve_implicit_extensions setting. The extensions listed in this setting do not need to be enabled explicitly using the Sieve "require" command. This behavior directkly violates the standard, but can be necessary for compatibility with some existing implementations of Sieve. Do not use this setting unless you really need to! - redirect action: Made mail loop detection more robust by forcibly adding a Message-ID header if it is missing. - Prevent logging a useless "script not found" error message for LDAP scripts for which the entry exists but no attribute containing a script. This is not necessarily an error. - extprograms plugin: Changed the communication channel between parent and child process for a directly forked program from a socketpair to a double pipe. Linux does not support /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and friends for sockets. For some shell program authors this may be confusing, so that is why it is changed. When using the script service, these device nodes are still not usable though. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release candidate and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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