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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.8.rc3 for Dovecot v2.2.17
by Stephan Bosch 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hello Dovecot users, RC2 had one more important bug caused by the new sieve_default_name feature. To prevent causing more of such rather stupid bugs in the future, I created an external shell-based test suite to test dovecot-lda delivery, the doveadm sieve tools and ManageSieve. These kind of tests aren't possible with the current Sieve-based test suite that is included in the Pigeonhole tarball. Now I can test most basic top-level Pigeonhole functionality in one go. Additionally, I created one new feature for ManageSieve. It allows logging various statistics at client disconnect, much like POP3 currently supports. This is e.g. useful for debugging. In the process, I fixed a few ManageSieve bugs as well. If RC3 doesn't cause any more issues, I will release 0.4.8 this Friday. Changelog v0.4.8 (updated): * LDA Sieve plugin: Dovecot changed the deliver_log_format setting to include %{delivery_time}. This prompted changes in Pigeonhole that make this release dependent on Dovecot v2.2.17. + Implemented magic to make sieve_default script visible from ManageSieve under a configurable name. This way, users can see the default rules, edit them and store a private adjusted version. This could also be achieved by copying the default script into the user's script storage, but updates to the global sieve_default script would be ignored that way. + ManageSieve: Implemented support for reporting command statistics at disconnect. Statistics include the number of bytes and scripts uploaded/downloaded/checked and the number of scripts deleted/renamed. - Fixed problem in address test: erroneously decoded mime-encoded words in address headers. - extprograms plugin: Fixed failure occurring when connecting to script service without the need to read back the output from the external program. - Fixed bug in script storage path normalization occurring with relative symbolic links below root. - Fixed and updated various parts of the documentation - ManageSieve: Used "managesieve" rather than "sieve" as login service name, which means that all managesieve-specific settings where ignored. - Managesieve: Storage quota was not always enforced properly for scripts uploaded as quoted string. Nobody uses that, but it is allowed in the specification and we support it, so it should work properly. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc3… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc3… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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v2.2.17 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 May '15

13 May '15

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.17.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.17.tar.gz.sig A few director improvements since RC2, some fixes and a new plugin: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/QuotaClone * Dovecot no longer checks or warns if a mountpoint is removed. This was causing more trouble than it was worth. Make sure that all the mountpoints that Dovecot accesses aren't writable by mail processes when they're unmounted. * dict server wasn't properly escaping/unescaping data. Fixing this broke backwards compatibility with data that contains line feeds. This hopefully affects only very few installations. If you're using dict to save multiline data (Sieve scripts to SQL), you may be affected. * imap: SPECIAL-USE capability is no longer advertised if there are no special_use flags specified for any mailboxes. + lmtp: Added lmtp_hdr_delivery_address setting to specify whether to include email address in Delivered-To: and Received: headers. + Added initial version of full text search library, which includes language-specific text normalization and filtering. This is still in development, but it's already possible to use for testing with fts-lucene and fts-solr. + lda, lmtp: deliver_log_format can now include %{delivery_time}, which expands to how many milliseconds it took to deliver the mail. With LMTP %{session_time} also expands to how many milliseconds the LMTP session took, not including the delivery time. + lmtp proxy: Mail delivery logging includes timing information. + imap: Most IMAP commands now include in the tagged reply how many milliseconds it took to run the command (not counting the time spent on waiting for the IMAP client to read/write data). + director: Implemented director_proxy_maybe passdb extra field to be able to run director and backend in the same Dovecot instance. (LMTP doesn't support mixed proxy/non-proxy destinations currently.) + doveadm: Added -F <file> parameter to read a list of users from the given file and run the command for all the users. This is similar to -A parameter reading the list of users from userdb lookup. + Implemented initial Cassandra CQL support as lib-sql backend. It's only usable as dict backend currently. + Added quota-clone plugin to copy current quota usage to a dict. - auth: If auth_master_user_separator was set, auth process could be crashed by trying to log in with empty master username. - imap-login, pop3-login: Fixed crash on handshake failures with new OpenSSL versions (v1.0.2) when SSLv3 was disabled. - auth: If one passdb fails allow_nets check, it shouldn't have failed all the other passdb checks later on. - imap: Server METADATA couldn't be accessed - imapc: Fixed \Muted label handling in gmail-migration. - imapc: Various bugfixes and improvements. - Trash plugin fixes by Alexei Gradinari - mbox: Fixed crash/corruption in some situations

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v2.2.17 release candidate 2 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 May '15

13 May '15

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.17.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.17.rc2.tar.gz.sig Changes since rc1: - Compiling fix for fs-compress in Solaris and maybe others. - Implemented Cassandra CQL support as lib-sql backend. This is mainly usable as dict-sql backend. - lib-fts fixes and improvements - Some other small random changes If no new issues are found, v2.2.17 final should be out in a day or two. (Actually looks like I have a few more bugs that probably will be fixed for it.) Changes since v2.2.16: * Dovecot no longer checks or warns if a mountpoint is removed. This was causing more trouble than it was worth. Make sure that all the mountpoints that Dovecot accesses aren't writable by mail processes when they're unmounted. * dict server wasn't properly escaping/unescaping data. Fixing this broke backwards compatibility with data that contains line feeds. This hopefully affects only very few installations. If you're using dict to save multiline data (Sieve scripts to SQL), you may be affected. * imap: SPECIAL-USE capability is no longer advertised if there are no special_use flags specified for any mailboxes. + lmtp: Added lmtp_hdr_delivery_address setting to specify whether to include email address in Delivered-To: and Received: headers. + Added initial version of full text search library, which includes language-specific text normalization and filtering. This is still in development, but it's already possible to use for testing with fts-lucene and fts-solr. + lda, lmtp: deliver_log_format can now include %{delivery_time}, which expands to how many milliseconds it took to deliver the mail. With LMTP %{session_time} also expands to how many milliseconds the LMTP session took, not including the delivery time. + lmtp proxy: Mail delivery logging includes timing information. + imap: Most IMAP commands now include in the tagged reply how many milliseconds it took to run the command (not counting the time spent on waiting for the IMAP client to read/write data). + director: Implemented director_proxy_maybe passdb extra field to be able to run director and backend in the same Dovecot instance. (LMTP doesn't support mixed proxy/non-proxy destinations currently.) + doveadm: Added -F <file> parameter to read a list of users from the given file and run the command for all the users. This is similar to -A parameter reading the list of users from userdb lookup. + Implemented initial Cassandra CQL support as lib-sql backend. It's only usable as dict backend currently. - auth: If auth_master_user_separator was set, auth process could be crashed by trying to log in with empty master username. - imap-login, pop3-login: Fixed crash on handshake failures with new OpenSSL versions (v1.0.2) when SSLv3 was disabled. - auth: If one passdb fails allow_nets check, it shouldn't have failed all the other passdb checks later on. - imap: Server METADATA couldn't be accessed - imapc: Fixed \Muted label handling in gmail-migration. - imapc: Various bugfixes and improvements. - Trash plugin fixes by Alexei Gradinari - mbox: Fixed crash/corruption in some situations when the first mail was expunged.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.8.rc2 for Dovecot v2.2.17.rc1
by Stephan Bosch 11 May '15

11 May '15

Hello Dovecot users, Ok, RC1 contained one rather stupid bug that caused a segfault at delivery. It was caused by a new feature, so the list of changes is not updated. Changelog v0.4.8: * LDA Sieve plugin: Dovecot changed the deliver_log_format setting to include %{delivery_time}. This prompted changes in Pigeonhole that make this release dependent on Dovecot v2.2.17. + Implemented magic to make sieve_default script visible from ManageSieve under a configurable name. This way, users can see the default rules, edit them and store a private adjusted version. This could also be achieved by copying the default script into the user's script storage, but that way updates to the global sieve_default script would be ignored. - Fixed problem in address test: erroneously decoded mime-encoded words in address headers. - extprograms plugin: Fixed failure occurring when connecting to script service without the need to read back the output from the external program. - Fixed bug in script storage path normalization occurring with relative symbolic links below root. - Fixed and updated various parts of the documentation. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc2… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc2… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.8.rc1 for Dovecot v2.2.17.rc1
by Stephan Bosch 11 May '15

11 May '15

Hello Dovecot users, Here's the Pigeonhole RC that goes with the Dovecot RC. It includes a few small fixes and one new feature. Changelog v0.4.8.rc1: * LDA Sieve plugin: Dovecot changed the deliver_log_format setting to include %{delivery_time}. This prompted changes in Pigeonhole that make this release dependent on Dovecot v2.2.17. + Implemented magic to make sieve_default script visible from ManageSieve under a configurable name. This way, users can see the default rules, edit them and store a private adjusted version. This could also be achieved by copying the default script into the user's script storage, but that way updates to the global sieve_default script would be ignored. - Fixed problem in address test: erroneously decoded mime-encoded words in address headers. - extprograms plugin: Fixed failure occurring when connecting to script service without the need to read back the output from the external program. - Fixed bug in script storage path normalization occurring with relative symbolic links below root. - Fixed and updated various parts of the documentation. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc1… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.8.rc1… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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v2.2.17 release candidate released
by Timo Sirainen 09 May '15

09 May '15

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.17.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.17.rc1.tar.gz.sig Quite a lot of changes, so here's a release candidate first. If no problems are reported I'll make v2.2.17 release early next week. Please test especially non-Linux systems as there are some larger configure/Makefile changes done since v2.2.16. * Dovecot no longer checks or warns if a mountpoint is removed. This was causing more trouble than it was worth. Make sure that all the mountpoints that Dovecot accesses aren't writable by mail processes when they're unmounted. * dict server wasn't properly escaping/unescaping data. Fixing this broke backwards compatibility with data that contains line feeds. This hopefully affects only very few installations. If you're using dict to save multiline data (Sieve scripts to SQL), you may be affected. * imap: SPECIAL-USE capability is no longer advertised if there are no special_use flags specified for any mailboxes. + lmtp: Added lmtp_hdr_delivery_address setting to specify whether to include email address in Delivered-To: and Received: headers. + Added initial version of full text search library, which includes language-specific text normalization and filtering. This is still in development, but it's already possible to use for testing with fts-lucene and fts-solr. + lda, lmtp: deliver_log_format can now include %{delivery_time}, which expands to how many milliseconds it took to deliver the mail. With LMTP %{session_time} also expands to how many milliseconds the LMTP session took, not including the delivery time. + lmtp proxy: Mail delivery logging includes timing information. + imap: Most IMAP commands now include in the tagged reply how many milliseconds it took to run the command (not counting the time spent on waiting for the IMAP client to read/write data). + director: Implemented director_proxy_maybe passdb extra field to be able to run director and backend in the same Dovecot instance. (LMTP doesn't support mixed proxy/non-proxy destinations currently.) + doveadm: Added -F <file> parameter to read a list of users from the given file and run the command for all the users. This is similar to -A parameter reading the list of users from userdb lookup. - auth: If auth_master_user_separator was set, auth process could be crashed by trying to log in with empty master username. - imap-login, pop3-login: Fixed crash on handshake failures with new OpenSSL versions (v1.0.2) when SSLv3 was disabled. - auth: If one passdb fails allow_nets check, it shouldn't have failed all the other passdb checks later on. - imap: Server METADATA couldn't be accessed - imapc: Fixed \Muted label handling in gmail-migration. - imapc: Various bugfixes and improvements. - Trash plugin fixes by Alexei Gradinari - mbox: Fixed crash/corruption in some situations when the first mail was expunged.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.7 for Dovecot v2.2.16
by Stephan Bosch 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Hello Dovecot users, Here is the final 0.4.7 release. No changes were committed since the last release candidate. Changelog v0.4.7: * editheader extension: Made protection against addition and deletion of headers configurable separately. Also, the `Received' and `Auto-Submitted' headers are no longer protected against addition by default. * Turned message envelope address parse errors into warnings. * The interpreter now accepts non-standard domain names, e.g. containing '_'. + Implemented the Sieve index extension (RFC 5260). + Implemented support for the mboxmetadata and servermetadata extensions (RFC 5490). + Implemented new sieve commands for the doveadm command line utility. These commands are currently limited to ManageSieve operations, but the other current sieve tools will be migrated to doveadm in the near future as well. + Added more debug output about binary up-to-date checking. + Added script metadata to binary dump output. - Fixed Sieve script binary up-to-date checking by normalizing the script location. - The Sieve interpreter now flushes the duplicate database during start phase of result execution rather than commit phase. This makes sure locks on the duplicate database are released as soon as possible, preventing contention. - Performed a few optimizations in the lexical scanner of the language. - Fixed bug in `:matches' match-type that made a pattern without wildcards match as if there were a '*' at the beginning. - Fixed crash in validation of the string parameter of the comparator tag. - extprograms extension: Made sure supplemental group privileges are also dropped. This was a problem reported by Debian lintian. - Fixed bug in handling of binary errors for action side-effects and message overrides. - file script storage: Restructured storage initialization to address backwards compatibility issues. - dict script storage: Fixed small memory allocation bug. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.tar… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.tar… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG
by Timo Sirainen 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hi all, Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them. Here are the press release links about it: http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-wo… http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.7.rc3 for Dovecot v2.2.16
by Stephan Bosch 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hello Dovecot users, The rc2 release had a couple of new, rather small, but very annoying bugs. First of all, the path for a file storage wasn't actually normalized, due to a stupid last-minute change before the release. This caused the personal script to be skipped with a warning when there were e.g. duplicate slashes in the path. Second, due to recent changes, the file storage would complain with a temporary error if the directory where the active script symlink would be located was missing. Changelog v0.4.7 (unchanged): * editheader extension: Made protection against addition and deletion of headers configurable separately. Also, the `Received' and `Auto-Submitted' headers are no longer protected against addition by default. * Turned message envelope address parse errors into warnings. * The interpreter now accepts non-standard domain names, e.g. containing '_'. + Implemented the Sieve index extension (RFC 5260). + Implemented support for the mboxmetadata and servermetadata extensions (RFC 5490). + Implemented new sieve commands for the doveadm command line utility. These commands are currently limited to ManageSieve operations, but the other current sieve tools will be migrated to doveadm in the near future as well. + Added more debug output about binary up-to-date checking. + Added script metadata to binary dump output. - Fixed Sieve script binary up-to-date checking by normalizing the script location. - The Sieve interpreter now flushes the duplicate database during start phase of result execution rather than commit phase. This makes sure locks on the duplicate database are released as soon as possible, preventing contention. - Performed a few optimizations in the lexical scanner of the language. - Fixed bug in `:matches' match-type that made a pattern without wildcards match as if there were a '*' at the beginning. - Fixed crash in validation of the string parameter of the comparator tag. - extprograms extension: Made sure supplemental group privileges are also dropped. This was a problem reported by Debian lintian. - Fixed bug in handling of binary errors for action side-effects and message overrides. - file script storage: Restructured storage initialization to address backwards compatibility issues. - dict script storage: Fixed small memory allocation bug. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.rc3… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.rc3… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.7.rc2 for Dovecot v2.2.16
by Stephan Bosch 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

Hello Dovecot users, The rc1 release showed a few problems with the up-to-date checking of on-disk binary files. The binary files contain some metadata about the script these were compiled from. If this doesn't match the current script anymore, the script is recompiled. One of these metadata items is the script location. However, this location wasn't normalized, so when the binary would be compiled with sievec it depended on the path provided at the command line. When dumping a script binary, the metadata is now printed as well. Also, I added more debug log lines about up-to-date checking. I improved backwards compatibility for the file script storage a bit relative to the last version. It now properly recognizes a regular file at the symlink path, even when the storage path itself doesn't exist. Changelog v0.4.7 (updated): * editheader extension: Made protection against addition and deletion of headers configurable separately. Also, the `Received' and `Auto-Submitted' headers are no longer protected against addition by default. * Turned message envelope address parse errors into warnings. * The interpreter now accepts non-standard domain names, e.g. containing '_'. + Implemented the Sieve index extension (RFC 5260). + Implemented support for the mboxmetadata and servermetadata extensions (RFC 5490). + Implemented new sieve commands for the doveadm command line utility. These commands are currently limited to ManageSieve operations, but the other current sieve tools will be migrated to doveadm in the near future as well. + Added more debug output about binary up-to-date checking. + Added script metadata to binary dump output. - Fixed Sieve script binary up-to-date checking by normalizing the script location. - The Sieve interpreter now flushes the duplicate database during start phase of result execution rather than commit phase. This makes sure locks on the duplicate database are released as soon as possible, preventing contention. - Performed a few optimizations in the lexical scanner of the language. - Fixed bug in `:matches' match-type that made a pattern without wildcards match as if there were a '*' at the beginning. - Fixed crash in validation of the string parameter of the comparator tag. - extprograms extension: Made sure supplemental group privileges are also dropped. This was a problem reported by Debian lintian. - Fixed bug in handling of binary errors for action side-effects and message overrides. - file script storage: Restructured storage initialization to address backwards compatibility issues. - dict script storage: Fixed small memory allocation bug. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.rc2… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.7.rc2… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new 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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