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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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v2.1.rc1 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc1.tar.gz.sig I'll probably release v2.1.0 pretty soon, unless people report some new bugs. I know v2.1 is already being used to serve mails to tens (or hundreds?) of thousands of users, so it should be pretty stable. Most of the changes since v2.1.beta1 have been for rather small issues. Many of the fixed bugs exist also in v2.0, but since they are so minor I didn't bother backporting the fixes. As new features since v2.1.beta1 there are the things I did also for v2.0.16, and: * ssl_client_cert/key: Proxying can now send SSL certificate to backend server * ssl_crypto_device for enabling hardware encryption * SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication mechanism support by Florian Zeitz * passdb/userdb checkpassword: Export all auth %variables to AUTH_* environment. * maildir_broken_filename_sizes setting for people upgrading from other maildir servers that wrote tons of broken S=<size> values And as a reminder, here are the biggest new things since v2.0: * Plugins now use UTF-8 mailbox names rather than mUTF-7: acl, autocreate, expire, trash, virtual * auth_username_format default changed to %Lu. If you really want case sensitive usernames, set it back to empty. * Solr full text search backend changed to use mailbox GUIDs instead of mailbox names, requiring reindexing everything. solr_old backend can be used with old indexes to avoid reindexing, but it doesn't support some newer features. + imapc (= IMAP client) storage allows using a remote IMAP server to be used as storage. This allows using Dovecot as a smart (caching) proxy or using dsync to do migration from remote IMAP server. + Mailbox indexing via queuing indexer service (required for Lucene) + Lucene full text search (FTS) backend rewritten with support for different languages + FTS finally supports "OR" search operation + FTS supports indexing attachments via external programs + IMAP FUZZY extension, supported by Lucene and Solr FTS backends + Mailbox list indexes + Statistics tracking via stats service. Exported via doveadm stats. + Autocreate plugin creates/subscribes mailboxes physically only when the mailbox is opened for the first time. Mailbox listing shows the autocreated mailboxes even if they don't physically exist. + Password and user databases now support default_fields and override_fields settings to specify template defaults/overrides. - listescape plugin works perfectly now

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Released Pigeonhole v0.2.5 for Dovecot v2.0.16
by Stephan Bosch 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hello Dovecot users, Before I move active development of Pigeonhole to Dovecot v2.1, I first release all the pending bug fixes and small improvements. Changelog v0.2.5: + Sieve vacation extension: made discard message for implicit delivery more verbose - The sieve-test tool: mixed up original and final envelope recipient in implementation of command line arguments. - Sieve vacation extension: resolved FIXME regarding the use of variables in the :handle argument. Variables are now handled correctly. - Sieve body extension: fixed handling of :content "message/rfc822". This now yields the headers of the embedded message as required by the specification. Handling of :content "multipart" remains to be fixed. - LDA Sieve plugin: fixed problem with recipient_delimiter configuration. Now it falls back to global recipient_delimiter setting if plugin/recipient_delimiter is not set. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.5.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.5.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.0 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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v2.0.16 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.16.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.16.tar.gz.sig I only now noticed that the VSZ limits weren't being enforced with earlier v2.0.x releases (or they were set 1024 times too high). So if a Dovecot process was leaking memory, it wasn't being killed by kernel. Now that this enforcing is done, some installations will probably start seeing errors about reaching these limits in normal operation. The default_vsz_limit is 256 MB. You may want to increase it in larger installations to 1 GB just in case. Besides the changes listed below, a lot of smaller fixes were done. v2.0.16 2011-11-17 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * VSZ limits weren't being enforced for any processes. On server with large mailboxes you may now see errors about it if the limits aren't high enough. To fix them, either increase individual service { vsz_limit } values or simply increase the default_vsz_limit setting. * Proxying: If using ssl=yes or starttls=yes with a hostname (not IP) as proxy destination, require that the certificate matches the given hostname. * LMTP: Changed default client_limit to 1. This should improve LMTP throughput with default settings. * dsync: Quota is no longer enforced (i.e. dsync can't fail because user is over quota). + Added "auto" mail storage driver, which can be used to autodetect mailbox location and format. This behavior is already the default for empty mail_location setting, so this change is mainly useful for shared namespace's location setting. + checkpassword: Export all auth %variables to AUTH_* environment.

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v2.1.beta1 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/beta/dovecot-2.1.beta1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/beta/dovecot-2.1.beta1.tar.gz.sig Here's the first beta release of Dovecot v2.1. This version has already been tested quite a lot, so I'm not expecting any major bugs. So please upgrade and see if you can find any problems. I'm optimistic about getting rc1 released this year and perhaps even v2.1.0. Since alpha2 there have been a lot of fixes, especially to imapc backend. There are probably also some small new features, but nothing huge. As a reminder, here's the largest changes since v2.0: * Plugins now use UTF-8 mailbox names rather than mUTF-7: acl, autocreate, expire, trash, virtual * auth_username_format default changed to %Lu. If you really want case sensitive usernames, set it back to empty. * Solr full text search backend changed to use mailbox GUIDs instead of mailbox names, requiring reindexing everything. solr_old backend can be used with old indexes to avoid reindexing, but it doesn't support some newer features. + imapc (= IMAP client) storage allows using a remote IMAP server to be used as storage. This allows using Dovecot as a smart (caching) proxy or using dsync to do migration from remote IMAP server. + Mailbox indexing via queuing indexer service (required for Lucene) + Lucene full text search (FTS) backend rewritten with support for different languages + FTS finally supports "OR" search operation + FTS supports indexing attachments via external programs + IMAP FUZZY extension, supported by Lucene and Solr FTS backends + Mailbox list indexes + Statistics tracking via stats service. Exported via doveadm stats. + Autocreate plugin creates/subscribes mailboxes physically only when the mailbox is opened for the first time. Mailbox listing shows the autocreated mailboxes even if they don't physically exist. + Password and user databases now support default_fields and override_fields settings to specify template defaults/overrides. - listescape plugin works perfectly now

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v2.1.alpha2 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha2.tar.gz.sig This is actually looking rather stable. I'm still calling it "alpha" in case I think of doing some more API changes, but I think the next one will be called "beta1", hopefully soon followed by "rc1". - Statistics gathering improvements (more fields) and fixes. - Lots of imapc fixes and improvements - Fixes to handling shared namespaces - Several other fixes

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v2.0.15 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.15.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.15.tar.gz.sig + doveadm altmove: Added -r parameter to move mails back to primary storage. - v2.0.14: Index reading could have eaten a lot of memory in some situations - doveadm index no longer affects future caching decisions - mbox: Fixed crash during mail delivery when mailbox didn't yet have GUID assigned to it. - zlib+mbox: Fetching last message from compressed mailboxes crashed. - lib-sql: Fixed load balancing and error handling when multiple hosts are used.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.2.4 for Dovecot v2.0.14
by Stephan Bosch 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello Dovecot users, I release a new version of Pigeonhole tonight. This release extends the configuration capabilities of the include and vacation extensions, adds the ihave extension (RFC 5463), and fixes a few small other things. Judging by Timo's plans, this will be one of the last feature releases for Dovecot v2.0, since I'll be switching active development to Dovecot v2.1 once that matures a little more. Changelog v0.2.4: + Vacation extension: finally added support for using the original recipient in vacation address check. It is also possible to disable the recipient address check entirely. Check doc/vacation.txt for configuration information. + Include extension: made limits on the include depth and the total number of included scripts configurable. Check doc/include.txt for configuration information. + Implemented ihave extension. This allows checking for the availability of Sieve language extensions at 'runtime'. Actually, this is checked at compile time. At runtime the interpreter checks whether extensions that were not previously available are still unavailable. If the situation changed, the script is re-compiled and the ihave tests are evaluated again. + Sieve: optimized compilation of tests that yield constant results (i.e. known at compile tme), such as 'true' and 'false'. No code is produced anymore for script sections that are never executed. Also, semantics are not verified anymore in uncompiled script sections. + Made vnd.dovecot.debug extension available to the LDA plugin instead of only the command line tools. + Sieve: redirect action now adds X-Sieve-Redirected-From header (mainly for people using SPF/SRS). - Sieve: fixed bug in handling flags and keywords; in case of error an assertion was triggered. - Script storage: improved handling of unconfigured user home directory. Originally this would produce an unhelpful error message. - Imap4flags extension: prevent forcibly enabling imap4flags when imapflags is enabled. - Fixed various -Wunused-but-set-variable compiler warnings. - Include extension: forgot to check variable identifier syntax for 'global' command. - Sieve: fixed debug mode; no messages were logged in some situations. - sievec tool: forgot to enable -D (debug) parameter. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.4.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.4.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.0 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.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig So it's time for the first alpha version of Dovecot v2.1. There are no huge intrusive changes, so I expect v2.1.0 to be released this year (maybe even in a few months?) The biggest changes are related to full text search handling. I'll probably still make some changes to it and its configuration. Also it wouldn't be difficult to add more backends, does anyone want to add Xapian support for Dovecot? :) Mailbox list indexes are intended to improve performance of IMAP STATUS command lookups, since they could be simply looked up from the index without even opening the mailbox. TODO related to this: 1) optimize virtual mailbox handling so that it doesn't need to actually open all of the mailboxes' index files, it can simply look at the mailbox list index for changes. 2) Implement IMAP NOTIFY extension using this. Statistics tracking can be used to look at what's happening currently in your system and also its history. You can look at what's happening in command/session/user/domain/ip level. "doveadm stats top" gives a list of currently running sessions and sorts them by whichever is using the most disk io/cpu/whatever. "doveadm stats dump" followed by one of the levels shows you a raw dump of everything stored in that level. It would be nice if someone wrote a pretty Ajaxy HTML stats browser where you could zoom in/out of levels. I'd also like to hear if anyone has suggestions on how to improve what stats are gathered or how they could be exported. (I've thought about SNMP, but I'm not entirely sure how to export the data nicely using it.) Finally here's the NEWS file: * Plugins now use UTF-8 mailbox names rather than mUTF-7: acl, autocreate, expire, trash, virtual * auth_username_format default changed to %Lu. If you really want case sensitive usernames, set it back to empty. * Solr full text search backend changed to use mailbox GUIDs instead of mailbox names, requiring reindexing everything. solr_old backend can be used with old indexes to avoid reindexing, but it doesn't support some newer features. + imapc (= IMAP client) storage allows using a remote IMAP server to be used as storage. This allows using Dovecot as a smart (caching) proxy or using dsync to do migration from remote IMAP server. + Mailbox indexing via queuing indexer service (required for Lucene) + Lucene full text search (FTS) backend rewritten with support for different languages + FTS finally supports "OR" search operation + FTS supports indexing attachments via external programs + IMAP FUZZY extension, supported by Lucene and Solr FTS backends + Mailbox list indexes + Statistics tracking via stats service. Exported via doveadm stats. + Autocreate plugin creates/subscribes mailboxes physically only when the mailbox is opened for the first time. Mailbox listing shows the autocreated mailboxes even if they don't physically exist. + Password and user databases now support default_fields and override_fields settings to specify template defaults/overrides. - listescape plugin works perfectly now

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