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v2.0.beta6 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta6.tar.gz.sig Unfortunately this still isn't rc1 yet, but the next one will be, I promise :) Basically all of the important changes are done now. The TODO list for rc1 is: - Test and fix dsync bugs - Finish director - Add man pages started by Pascal Volk. BTW. He asked for some feedback about them, but got only one reply: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-June/049438.html I've also read through and answered nearly all of my email backlog. If you haven't gotten a reply, resend the mail. Some changes since beta5: - Added director: http://blog.dovecot.org/2010/05/new-director-service-in-v20-for-nfs.html - IMAP: Added STATUS (X-VSIZE) command for easily getting mailbox's virtual size. - Lots and lots of doveadm improvements and new commands - Postlogin scripts now need to be executed using "script-login", not "script" binary. - Quota warnings are executed now asynchronously using the new script binary. See http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/a179fcbbf960 - Added passdb static for proxying and similar configurations - TLS SNI configuration must now be done using local_name {} blocks, not local {} - lib-storage plugin API changes, external plugins must be updated to work correctly - Lots of fixes

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v2.0.beta5 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 May '10

09 May '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz.sig Sorry for being so quiet recently. Unfortunately I think it's still going to last a while longer. I'll be in Italy for next two weeks and immediately after that I'll move to Portugal. I'll probably write something about that later to blog. I had hoped that this beta5 would be almost the same as RC1, but I didn't have time to put everything there yet, and thought beta4 is way too old already. The few things that should still be done: - Change expire-tool to be a plugin for doveadm expunge command - doveadm mailbox * commands should use UTF-8 for mailbox names, not mUTF-7 (and add -7, -8 parameters to switch between them) - THREAD command seems to be crashing - some other bugfixes Some of the changes since beta4: - default_login_user is now "dovenull". You should create this user. - imap, pop3 -u <user> now does userdb lookup + changes privileges if necessary, so it's much easier to start imap/pop3 session for a specific user from command line - doveadm has all kinds of new commands and changes - PostgreSQL supports now multiple connections to backend. Also supports load-balancing / HA by specifying multiple host parameters. MySQL and PostgreSQL now share the same code for that. - probably lots of other things I can't think of right now. h

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Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.16 for Dovecot v1.2.11
by Stephan Bosch 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole development has slowed down significantly in the last few months due to the fact that I got swamped in work. The plan is now to move active development of Pigeonhole to Dovecot v2.0, meaning that this will be the last release for v1.2 that contains significant development changes and new features. However, if a certain new feature is simple enough and there is a demand for it, I may backport it from v2.0 and release it along with any bugfixes that may still arise. The main thing that this new release adds is full support for the spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest extensions. These extensions implement a uniform means of testing the content spam/virus status headers in mail messages: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/rfc5235/ Not many people have tested these new features yet and therefore these are currently considered experimental. Test these thoroughly before you start using them! Documentation is available in doc/spamtest-virustest.txt Changelog Sieve v0.1.16: * Finished implementation of spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest extensions. These are not enabled by default and need to be activated with the sieve_extensions setting. Documentation available in doc/spamtest-virustest.txt + Vacation extension: the from address of the generated reply is now by default equal to whatever known recipient alias matched the headers of the message. If it is one of the aliases specified with :addresses, it is used in stead of the envelope recipient address that was used before. + Restructured and optimized the lexical scanner. + Added --with-docs configure option to allow disabling installation of documentation. - Accidentally omitted 'extern' in two declarations of global variables in header files, causing compile failures on certain systems. - Deprecated imapflags extension: fixed implicit assignment of flags. Turns out this never really worked, but the effect of this bug was obscured by the removeflag bug fixed in the previous release. - Fixed various memset argument mixups in enotify extension. This caused warnings on certain systems, but luckily no adverse effects at runtime. The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.16.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.16.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org for more information. Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v2.0.beta4 released
by Timo Sirainen 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta4.tar.gz.sig I think this release is finally feature complete. There are still some bugs left to be fixed, but it's mainly in the dsync/mdbox area. v2.0.rc1 should hopefully be out in a couple of weeks. After that v2.0.0 will be released after no serious bugs have been found for a couple of weeks. Major changes since beta3: - auth process now runs as $dovecot_internal_user ("dovecot") by default. Auth worker processes still run as root by default, so this won't break PAM etc, but it could break passwd-file configurations. - It can now read v1.2's dovecot.conf file. If you find that it won't read your config, let me know and I'll see about adding code to fix it. It'll log warnings about each obsolete setting it sees. The easiest way to get rid of the warnings is to just translate your old config to v2.0: doveconf -n -c old.conf > new.conf - auth passdb/userdb configuration in example-config is now a bit different .. hopefully less confusing to new people than the old one. - added support for auth settings (including passdb/userdb) inside protocol sections, so it'll affect only those protocols - mail_plugins can now be set more easily. you can have a single global mail_plugins and then add more plugins to it like protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } - doveconf finally shows all settings, including all protocol, local and remote sections - doveadm quota get|recalc command added. This is a plugin (yeah, doveadm now supports plugins!), so you must have a global mail_plugins=quota setting for the command to show up. - doveadm kick user/network to kick out logged in users (by sending TERM signal to processes). This was written by Pascal Volk. - and of course tons and tons of fixes all around

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v1.2.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.11.tar.gz.sig mbox users really should upgrade, because by sending a message with a huge header you could basically cause a DoS (this problem exists only with v1.2.x, not with v1.0 or v1.1). - mbox: Message header reading was unnecessarily slow. Fetching a huge header could have resulted in Dovecot eating a lot of CPU. Also searching messages was much slower than necessary. - mbox, dbox, cydir: Mail root directory was created with 0770 permissions, instead of 0700. - maildir: Reading uidlist could have ended up in an infinite loop. - IMAP IDLE: v1.2.7+ caused extra load by checking changes every 0.5 seconds after a change had occurred in mailbox

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v2.0.beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz.sig I had to break a few APIs in this release to get some other stuff implemented and fixed. And since I had to break some of them, I decided it could be a good time to do some other less necessary API cleanups. This made things again much simpler. I'm hoping to get v2.0.rc1 out in not too distant future. Pretty much the only big missing feature that I wanted to do is being able to add per-protocol auth settings (e.g. protocol smtp { userdb { .. } }), but that doesn't seem to be all that easy to implement. There are of course some bugs still left to be fixed, mainly related to mdbox and dsync. User visible changes: - imap_zlib plugin implements COMPRESS=DEFLATE IMAP extension - zlib plugin: Added support for compressing mails while saving - zlib plugin: fixed reading bzip2 compressed mail files - zlib plugin: Added support for dbox and mdbox formats - mdbox: doveadm purge moves old mails to alt storage (if using alt storage) - added support for tcpwrappers - added support for SHA512 password scheme (by Mark Washenberger) - mailbox deletion is now free of race conditions (e.g. quota calculations). if another session tries to access mailbox before it's fully deleted, it'll get "Mailbox is being deleted" error. - "key = $set" in config file now sets key's value to "set" setting's value. this is probably rather limited outside the only place where I created it for: service { user = $default_internal_user } - default_internal_user and default_login_user settings now specify what users should be used for them. currently the default is still dovecot and dovecot, but I'm hoping to change default_login_user to something else.. - Removed maildir_copy_preserve_filename setting. It's now always tried to be preserved (or rather: message's GUID is preserved) - auth failure penalty tries to avoid increasing penalty for IP if auth is failing always with the same user+password combination. - doveadm penalty command can be used to see the current penalties - login processes: config lookups are now cached, so it no longer asks for configuration from config process every time (except if there are remote {} blocks in config. also the local {} caching could be smarter.) - Tons of mdbox fixes - Tons of dsync fixes, especially with mbox So some of the changes visible to developers are: - dovecot-config file changed. if your external plugin uses this file, you need to change it to use the new format. - added dovecot.m4 file that can be used by external plugins' configure script to get Dovecot settings. This was mainly done by Dennis Schridde. - mailbox_alloc() no longer has stream parameter, instead there's mailbox_open_stream() - mailbox_close() renamed to mailbox_free(). added a different mailbox_close(), which only closes opened mailbox, but doesn't free it. - mailbox_delete(), mailbox_rename() APIs changed - notify plugin's delete/rename API changed as well - mailbox GUID is now looked up using mailbox_get_guid(), not mailbox_status() - dict_iterate*() API changed

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Dovecot blog
by Timo Sirainen 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

http://blog.dovecot.org/ I was thinking that I could blog about: - ideas for new Dovecot feature designs - when I actually manage to implement some new great feature - maybe some stuff about IMAP/email in general - and maybe whenever I happen to be moving to a different country I wasn't really planning on announcing new releases there. Dovecot feature designs are also sent to Dovecot mailing list, as before. But there have been other things I've thought about mentioning somewhere, but Dovecot ML didn't really seem like the right place. I doubt I'll update the blog very often. But that probably makes it even more useful, since casual readers find the useful stuff quickly. :)

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v2.0.beta2 released
by Timo Sirainen 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta2.tar.gz.sig I tried to keep the configuration and APIs compatible with v2.0.beta1, but unfortunately there were a few things that really had to be changed: 1. passdbs and userdbs have now a separate "driver" setting inside them. So for example if you had: userdb passwd { } You'll now need to use instead: userdb { driver = passwd } 2. Services now have default inet_listeners. You need to either remove your existing ones, or override the defaults by giving the listeners's name like shown in the new example master.conf. For example if you had: service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 1234 .. change it to: service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 1234 If you want to disable a default listener, you can set its port to 0. Some new features: - Added auth_verbose_passwords = no|plain|sha1. If authentication fails, this setting logs the used password. If you don't really need to know what the password itself was, but are more interested in knowing if the user is simply trying to use the wrong password every single time or if it's a brute force attack, you can set this to "sha1" and only the SHA1 of the password is logged. That's enough to know if the password is same or different between login attempts. - lazy-expunge: Support a single-namespace configuration. In this setup if mailbox has some expunged messages and then the whole mailbox gets deleted, they get merged into the same deleted mailbox. - protocol !imap { .. } adds configuration to all protocols except imap. - imap/pop3 proxying supports now async DNS lookups for hosts. There's a separate dns-client service doing the lookups using OS's own blocking resolver. - dovecot-config file changed in a way that it'll be easier to create external software linking against dovecot libraries. This made Pigeonhole's configure script a lot simpler. And of course there have been lots of fixes.

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Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.15 and ManageSieve v0.11.11 for Dovecot v1.2.10
by Stephan Bosch 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hello Dovecot users, It's been a while since the last Pigeonhole Sieve and ManageSieve releases. That is why this release includes quite a few changes. Most interestingly, the include extension is updated to match the most recent specification, the Sieve interpreter now includes plugin support and ManageSieve now has support for enforcing quota on the size of scripts, the number of scripts and the space the scripts occupy on disk. Other than that, quite a few small bugs were fixed. One of which was in the i;ascii-numeric comparator. If one of the matched strings did not start with a digit, the comparator would always yield a 'less-than' result. In stead it should have considered the string starting with the non-digit character as having a positive infinite value. Elsewhere in this list, Julian Cowley pointed out that negative values also start with a non-digit character, which some people may not have understood (i.e. i;ascii-numeric works only on unsigned values). The bug fix in this release could therefore change result of certain misconceived (and probably spam-related) Sieve rules, so watch out! I started work on the spamtest(plus) and virustest extensions. These are implemented for the most part, but their configurability needs quite a bit more work. Changelog Sieve v0.1.15: * Enotify extension: - Adjusted notify method API for addition of new notification methods. - Set default importance level to 'normal' (was 'high'). * Include extension: updated implementation towards most recent specification (all should be backwards compatible): - Implemented global variables namespace. - Global command may now appear anywhere in a script. - Implemented script name checking using the requirements specified in the ManageSieve draft. - One issue remains: ManageSieve currently requires included scripts to be uploaded first, which is not according to specification. * Changed envelope path parser to allow to and from envelope addresses that have no domain part. + Added preliminary support for Sieve plugins and added support for installing Sieve development headers. + Started work on the implementation of the spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest extensions (unfinished). + Deprecated notify extension: implemented denotify command. + Variables extension: added support for variable namespaces. + Added configurable script size limit. Compiler will refuse to compile files larger than sieve_max_script_size. + Testsuite changes: - Added support for changing and testing an extension's configuration. - Added a command line parameter for copying errors to stderr. - Fixed a bug in the i;ascii-numeric comparator. If one of the strings started with a non-digit character, the comparator would always yield less-than. - Imap4flags extension: fixed bug in removeflag: removing a single flag failed due to off-by-one error (bug report by Julian Cowley). - Improved EACCES error messages for stat() and lstat() syscalls and slightly improved error messages that may uccur when saving a binary. - Vacation extension: fixed typo in runtime log message (patch by Julian Cowley). - Fixed use of minus '-' in man pages; it is now properly escaped. - Fixed parser recovery. In particular cases it would trigger spurious errors after an initial valid error and sometimes additional errors were inappropriately ignored. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.11: * This release contains adjustments to match changes in the Sieve API. This means that this release will only compile against Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.15. + Implemented ManageSieve QUOTA enforcement. + Added MAXREDIRECTS capability after login. + Implemented new script name rules specified in most recent ManageSieve draft. - Fixed assertion failure occuring with challenge-response SASL mechanisms. - Made configure complain about trying to compile against installed Dovecot headers alone. - Fixed compile warning for compilation against CMUSieve. The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.15.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.15.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.11.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.11.tar.gz.… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10-managesieve-0.11.11.diff… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10-managesieve-0.11.11.diff… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org for more information. Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v1.2.10 released
by Timo Sirainen 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10.tar.gz.sig The Maildir bugs were common for everyone, although only NFS users seemed to notice for some reason. + %variables now support %{host}, %{pid} and %{env:ENVIRONMENT_NAME} everywhere. + LIST-STATUS capability is now advertised - maildir: Fixed several assert-crashes. - imap: LIST "" inbox shouldn't crash when using namespace with "INBOX." prefix. - lazy_expunge now ignores non-private namespaces.

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