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v2.2.beta1 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/beta/dovecot-2.2.beta1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/beta/dovecot-2.2.beta1.tar.gz.sig Lots of fixes since 2.2.alpha1, especially related to dsync. Also dsync now supports syncing private message flags when INDEXPVT is used. Here's again the list of all the major changes in v2.2: * When creating home directories, the permissions are copied from the parent directory if it has setgid-bit set. For full details, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions * "doveadm auth" command was renamed to "doveadm auth test" * IMAP: ID command now advertises server name as Dovecot by default. It was already trivial to guess this from command replies. * dovecot.index.cache files can be safely accessed only by v2.1.11+. Older versions may think they're corrupted and delete them. + Implemented IMAP MOVE and BINARY extensions + Implemented IMAP CATENATE, URLAUTH and URLAUTH=BINARY extensions (by Stephan Bosch). + Implemented IMAP NOTIFY extension. Requires mailbox_list_index=yes to be enabled. + Redesigned and rewritten dsync. The new design makes the syncing faster, more reliable and more featureful. The new dsync protocol isn't backwards compatible with old dsync versions (but is designed to be forwards compatible with future versions). + All mailbox formats now support per-user message flags for shared mailboxes by using a private index. It can be enabled by adding :INDEXPVT=<path> to mail location. This should be used instead of :INDEX also for Maildir/mbox to improve performance. + Improved mailbox list indexes. They should be usable now, although still disabled by default. + Added LAYOUT=index. The mailbox directories are created using their GUIDs in the filesystem, while the actual GUID <-> name mapping exists only in the index. + LMTP proxy: Implemented XCLIENT extension for passing remote IP address through proxy.

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v2.1.13 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.13.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.13.tar.gz.sig - Some fixes to cache file changes in v2.1.11. - fts-solr: Overlong UTF8 sequences in mails were rejected by Solr and caused the mails to not be indexed. - virtual storage: Sorting mailbox by from/to/cc/bcc didn't work.

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v2.1.12 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.12.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.12.tar.gz.sig The dovecot-config file installed by v2.1.11 was missing quotes, which broke building Pigeonhole. This release fixes that.

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v2.1.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.11.tar.gz.sig * lmtp/lda: dovecot.index.cache file is no longer fully mapped to memory, allowing mail deliveries to work even if the file is huge. * auth: userdb passwd lookups are now done by auth worker processes instead of auth master process (as it was documented, but accidentally didn't work that way). + lmtp: lmtp_rcpt_check_quota=yes setting checks quota on RCPT TO. - lmtp: After successful proxying RCPT TO, the next one to a nonexistent user gave tempfail error instead of "user not found". - lmtp proxy: Fixed hanging if remote server was down. - imap: Fixed crash when SEARCH contained multiple KEYWORD parameters. - doveadm: Various fixes to handling doveadm-server connections. - -i <instance name> parameter for Dovecot tools didn't work correctly. - director was somewhat broken in v2.1.10. This version also includes various reliability enhancements. - auth: passdb imap was broken in v2.1.10.

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Commercial features in Dovecot future: Object storage, archive
by Timo Sirainen 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi all, Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot. * Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality. * Email archive storage. See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details. I’ve been developing Dovecot for over 10 years now. For a long time it was my primary motivation in life to create the best IMAP server available :) I think I've pretty much accomplished that by now. The future is looking very bright for Dovecot: we will continue the open source development stronger than ever, but in addition, for the long term it needs some additional licensed components that bring the money to cover the cost for future Dovecot development and to be able to build up the support in a professional way. These new features will be added as plugins on top of Dovecot to extend the functionality. Note that I’m not just randomly choosing which features will be open and which will be licensed. Only some specific features will be licensed where my company is going to make money with partnerships and in other measurable ways.

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v2.2.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/alpha/dovecot-2.2.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/alpha/dovecot-2.2.alpha1.tar.gz.sig I wanted to start stabilizing v2.2 release some months ago already, but I somehow got stuck adding more and more features. Now it looks like all of the necessary API changes are done, so everything I'm planning on near future can still be added to v2.2 without major changes. The redesigned dsync hasn't had much testing yet, so avoid running it with important mails. Would be nice if people started testing and reporting any bugs. I was going to create some kind of a test suite for testing all the possible syncing combinations and also doing some random stress testing, but I haven't had time for that yet. The new dsync supports doing very fast syncs by saving the resulting state and giving it as command line parameter to the next sync. So for example doveadm sync -s "" > new-state saves the state and doveadm sync -s `cat new-state` continues from the saved state. The replicator code doesn't yet support this. * When creating home directories, the permissions are copied from the parent directory if it has setgid-bit set. For full details, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions * "doveadm auth" command was renamed to "doveadm auth test" * IMAP: ID command now advertises server name as Dovecot by default. It was already trivial to guess this from command replies. + Implemented IMAP MOVE and BINARY extensions + Implemented IMAP CATENATE, URLAUTH and URLAUTH=BINARY extensions (by Stephan Bosch). + Implemented IMAP NOTIFY extension. Requires mailbox_list_index=yes to be enabled. + Redesigned and rewritten dsync. The new design makes the syncing faster, more reliable and more featureful. The new dsync protocol isn't backwards compatible with old dsync versions (but is designed to be forwards compatible with future versions). + All mailbox formats now support per-user message flags for shared mailboxes by using a private index. It can be enabled by adding :INDEXPVT=<path> to mail location. This should be used instead of :INDEX also for Maildir/mbox to improve performance. + Improved mailbox list indexes. They should be usable now, although still disabled by default. + Added LAYOUT=index. The mailbox directories are created using their GUIDs in the filesystem, while the actual GUID <-> name mapping exists only in the index. + LMTP proxy: Implemented XCLIENT extension for passing remote IP address through proxy.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.3.3 for Dovecot v2.1.10
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, Version 0.3.2 was a bit broken, because it failed to compile against installed Dovecot headers. Changelog v0.3.3: - Fixed compile against installed Dovecot headers. This was broken by the ld.gold fix in the previous release. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz.sig 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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v2.1.10 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz.sig The director bugfix is pretty important at least when running in two director setups, since it can break the directors until both of them are manually shut down. I'm not entirely sure if the same happens in >2 director setups, but I'd think so (although I do wonder why I haven't seen it happen in them). BTW. I'm hoping for v2.2.alpha1 release within a week or two and to get it stabilized rather quickly. + imap: Implemented THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT extension. + Added "doveadm exec" command to easily execute commands from libexec_dir, e.g. "doveadm exec imap -u user@domain" + Added "doveadm copy" command. + doveadm copy/move: Added optional user parameter to specify the source username. This allows easily copying mails between different users. + Added namespace { disabled } setting to quickly enable/disable namespaces. This is especially useful when its value is returned by userdb. + Added mailbox_alias plugin. It allows creating mailbox aliases using symlinks. + imapc storage: Added imapc_max_idle_time setting to force activity on connection. + fts-solr: Expunging multiple messages is now faster. - director: In some conditions director may have disconnected from another director (without logging about it), thinking it was sending invalid data. - imap: Various fixes to listing mailboxes. - pop3-migration plugin: Avoid disconnection from POP3 server due to idling. - login processes crashed if there were a lot of local {} or remote {} settings blocks.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.3.2 for Dovecot v2.1.9
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, I've been busy recently with some wholly unrelated Dovecot IMAP patches, so Sieve development moved a bit into the background. This release therefore consists mostly of small bugfixes. The most important change is the fix of a bug in ManageSieve's CHECKSCRIPT command that causes a segfault. Quite a few people have encountered this problem recently, so it is about time I release this now. Changelog v0.3.2: + sieve-refilter tool: improved man page documentation by explicitly specifying the syntax used for mailbox arguments. + Sieve: spamtest and virustest extensions: improved trace debugging of score calculation. + Sieve: made error messages about exceeding the maximum number of actions more verbose. - Sieve tools: fixed problems with running as root: sievec and sieve-dump now ignore mail_uid and mail_gid settings when run as root. - Sieve: fixed bug in action accounting (for limit checking): increase action instance count only when an action is actually created. - Sieve: include extension: fixed namespace separation of :global and :personal scripts. - ManageSieve: fixed segfault bug triggered by CHECKSCRIPT command. - Fixed linking with ld.gold. - Fixed several Clang compile warnings and a few potential bugs. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz.sig 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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v2.1.9 released
by Timo Sirainen 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.9.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.9.tar.gz.sig I've again mostly finished reading and answering most of the mails in Dovecot mailing list. There are a couple annoyingly difficult / time consuming bugreport mails that I haven't replied to yet, but if anyone thinks I should have replied to something already feel free to resend the mail. For the new Redis/memcached dict stuff see http://master.wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Dict and http://master.wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict I'm thinking about removing the new quota_ignore_save_errors=yes setting in v2.2 and just forcing it enabled always. Thoughts? (I didn't want to change v2.1 behavior by doing this.) The most important changes since v2.1.8: * mail-log plugin: Log mailbox names with UTF-8 everywhere (instead of mUTF-7 in some places and UTF-8 in other places) * director: Changed director_username_hash setting's default from %u to %Lu (= lowercase usernames). This doesn't break any existing installations, but might fix some of them. + doveadm: Added "auth cache flush [<username>]" command. + Implemented dict passdb/userdb + Implemented Redis and memcached dict backends, which can be used as auth backends. Redis can also be used as dict-quota backend. + Added plugin { quota_ignore_save_errors=yes } setting to allow saving a mail when quota lookup fails with temporary failure. - Full text search indexing might have failed for some messages, always causing indexer-worker process to run out of memory. - fts-lucene: Fixed handling SEARCH HEADER FROM/TO/SUBJECT/CC/BCC when the header wasn't lowercased. - fts-squat: Fixed crash when searching a virtual mailbox. - pop3: Fixed assert crash when doing UIDL on empty mailbox on some setups. - auth: GSSAPI RFC compliancy and error handling fixes. - Various fixes related to handling shared namespaces

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