Re: dovecot 2.4 changes

If you mean local users. Mine are all virtual. I think when I'm up to it, I have working configs on my test site, I'll upgrade it.

Dovecot s a VERY good product. --john

On 1/24/26 4:24 PM, Washington Odhiambo wrote:

If you use system accounts, the migration is so easy.

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 18:27 John Hill via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>> wrote:

Yes there is a release note, and yes it includes extreme changes.

I have yet to update Debian due to this. I did install in a test site
and spent the better part of a day getting it to work, hopefully.

In fairness Dovecot is free. They don't owe me anything. If opensource
software is going to treat its users like this. I guess that could
generate sales.

I am considering other options, before I upgrade to Debian 13 or maybe
something altogether different.

--john


On 1/24/26 9:48 AM, Washington Odhiambo via dovecot wrote:
 >     On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:11PM Curtis J Blank via dovecot
 >     <[1]dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>> wrote:
 >
 >       I just did a Tumbleweed upgrade. then I had to fix dovecot.
No warning
 >       that dovecot was going to break what so ever. Below is all
the things I
 >       had to fix. And then I could not read my email in
Thunderbird because
 >       you changed:
 >
 >       mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
 >       to
 >       mail_driver = mbox
 >       mail_path = ~/mail
 >       mail_inbox_path = /var/spool/mail/%{user}
 >
 >       and the "%u" to "%{user}" was the showstopper.
 >
 >       What a crock of BS! I spent 3 hours determining the problem
and then
 >       fixing dovecot because you decided to make major changes
for no good
 >       reason. It worked just fine the way it was. You could have
automated the
 >       changes by providing a utility that would make the changes
the first
 >       time it started up after the upgrade.
 >
 >     All this ranting while you did not read the release announcement?
 >     Oh Lord of Mercy :-)
 >     --
 >     Best regards,
 >     Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
 >     Nairobi,KE
 >     +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
 >      In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
 >     "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\_(Tu)_/- :-)
 >     [How to ask smart
 >     questions: [2]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-
questions.html <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>]
 >
 > References
 >
 >     Visible links
 >     1. mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>
 >     2. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
 >
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