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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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v2.0.14 released
by Timo Sirainen 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.14.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.14.tar.gz.sig It's been a while since the previous release.. I've been a bit busy with my newly created Dovecot support company, but it was also summer and I wasted some time doing nothing useful. :) Most of my recent time has gone to adding new features to v2.1 branch. I'm planning on releasing v2.1.alpha1 somewhat soon and the final v2.1.0 sometimes later this year. This v2.0.14 release also contains one larger new feature: Ability to list and kick imap/pop3 proxy connections. This is done via a new "ipc" process where all proxying login processes connect to, which allows doveadm to communicate with them. If you're not using these features, this change (and its potential bugs) should be pretty much invisible. BTW. I know there are still mails I haven't read & replied to. I'll try to get to them eventually, but you may as well re-send anything you want me to read sooner rather than 6 months from now. Some of the largest changes since v2.0.13: + doveadm: Added support for running mail commands by proxying to another doveadm server. + Added "doveadm proxy list" and "doveadm proxy kick" commands to list/kick proxy connections (via a new "ipc" service). + Added "doveadm director move" to assign user from one server to another, killing any existing connections. + Added "doveadm director ring status" command. + userdb extra fields can now return name+=value to append to an existing name, e.g. "mail_plugins+= quota". - script-login attempted an unnecessary config lookup, which usually failed with "Permission denied". - lmtp: Fixed parsing quoted strings with spaces as local-part for MAIL FROM and RCPT TO. - imap: FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (..)] may have crashed or not returned all data sometimes. - ldap: Fixed random assert-crashing with with sasl_bind=yes. - Fixes to handling mail chroots - Fixed renaming mailboxes under different parent with FS layout when using separate ALT, INDEX or CONTROL paths. - zlib: Fixed reading concatenated .gz files.

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Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.19 and ManageSieve v0.11.13 for Dovecot v1.2.17
by Stephan Bosch 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hello Dovecot users, As promised, I hereby release new versions of Sieve and ManageSieve for Dovecot v1.2. These releases consist entirely of (backported) bugfixes and introduce no new features. There is a good chance that these are the last releases for Dovecot v1.2. Changelog Sieve v0.1.19: - Enotify extension: fixed inappropriate return type in mailto URI parse function, also fixing ARM compiler warning. - Vacation extension: fixed handling of sendmail errors. It produced an additional confusing success message in case of error. - Removed header MIME-decoding to fix erroneous address parsing. Applies to address test and vacation command. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.13: - ManageSieve: fixed bug in UTF-8 checking of string values. The releases are available as follows: Sieve http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.19.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.19.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.13.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.13.tar.gz.… ManageSieve patch http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.17-managesieve-0.11.13.diff… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.17-managesieve-0.11.13.diff… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot wiki for more information. Don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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Dovecot Solutions company
by Timo Sirainen 13 May '11

13 May '11

I recently created Dovecot Solutions Oy (Ltd) company with two other guys. We sell Dovecot support, development, etc. I was planning on announcing this only after we get an actual web site, but since I already told about it in Linuxtag today, I might as well tell everyone. The upcoming web site should have some more details, but if you already know you want to buy something, let me know. :)

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v1.2.17 released
by Timo Sirainen 11 May '11

11 May '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.17.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.17.tar.gz.sig The important changes since v1.2.16: - Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters. - IMAP: Fixed a memory leak with ESEARCH command handling - Quota warnings could have been executed at incorrect times with some configs.

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v2.0.13 released
by Timo Sirainen 11 May '11

11 May '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.13.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.13.tar.gz.sig I've almost managed to read my email backlog, but there are still some unanswered mails. Feel free to resend if you think I should have answered some of your mails. The most important changes since v2.0.12: + Added "doveadm index" command to add unindexed messages into index/cache. If full text search is enabled, it also adds unindexed messages to the fts database. + added "doveadm director dump" command. + pop3: Added support for showing messages in "POP3 order", which can be different from IMAP message order. This can be useful for migrations from other servers. Implemented it for Maildir as 'O' field in dovecot-uidlist. - doveconf: Fixed a wrong "subsection has ssl=yes" warning. - mdbox purge: Fixed wrong warning about corrupted extrefs. - sdbox: INBOX GUID changed when INBOX was autocreated, leading to trouble with dsync. - script-login binary wasn't actually dropping privileges to the user/group/chroot specified by its service settings. - Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.2.3 for Dovecot v2.0.12
by Stephan Bosch 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Hello Dovecot users, It's been a while since the last Pigeonhole release. This new release adds support for the new vacation-seconds extension, which allows the vacation extension to reply more frequently than every day and allows specifying this interval in seconds instead of days. I've also fixed quite a few bugs that were reported in the last couple of months. Changelog v0.2.3: * Sieve-filter tool: finished implementing basic functionality. It is not quite ready yet, but it is available for those willing to experiment with it (needs --with-unfinished-features config to compile). Also includes man page. + Vacation extension now inhibits replies to messages from sender listed in :addresses, thus preventing replies to one of the user's other known addresses. + Vacation extension: implemented the (draft) vacation-seconds extension. This also adds min/max period configuration settings. Refer to doc/vacation.txt for configuration information. - ManageSieve: fixed bug in UTF-8 checking of string values. This is done by discarding the original implementation and migrating to the Dovecot API's UTF-8 functionality. - Sieve command line tools now avoid initializing the mail store unless necessary. This prevents sievec and sieve-dump from failing when executed by root for example. - Enotify extension: fixed inappropriate return type in mailto URI parse function, also fixing ARM compiler warning. - Vacation extension: fixed handling of sendmail errors. It produced an additional confusing success message in case of error. - Removed header MIME-decoding to fix erroneous address parsing. Applies to address test and vacation command. - Fixed segfault bug in extension configuration, triggered when unknown extension is mentioned in sieve_extensions setting. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.3.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.3.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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v2.0.12 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.12.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.12.tar.gz.sig Many small fixes, plus some more noticeable: + doveadm: Added "move" command for moving mails between mailboxes. + virtual: Added support for "+mailbox" entries that clear \Recent flag from messages (default is to preserve them). - dbox: Fixes to handling external attachments - dsync: More fixes to avoid hanging with remote syncs - dsync: Many other syncing/correctness fixes - doveconf: v2.0.10 and v2.0.11 didn't output plugin {} section right BTW. I'm moving again next weekend, this time to Helsinki. Hopefully I'll be living there for a while. :)

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v2.0.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.11.tar.gz.sig Looks like v2.0.10 was a bit troublesome release. I expect this one to last longer. * dotlock_use_excl setting's default was accidentally "no" in all v2.0.x releases, instead of "yes" as in v1.1 and v1.2. Changed it back to "yes". - v2.0.10: LDAP support was broken - v2.0.10: dsyncing to remote often hanged (timed out in 15 mins)

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