On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 06:37 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
So, the largest changes I've added to NEWS file (which BTW won't contain changes between alphas/betas/rcs, those will be only in my mailing list posts):
+ SEARCH and SORT finally compare all characters case-insensitively.
We use i;unicode-casemap algorithm.
Is in hg now. Also works with Sieve plugin's matching. I've only been wanting to implement this for last 5 years.
BTW. Dovecot is about 5 years old now. I'm not exactly sure what Dovecot's birthday should be. The oldest news items in http://dovecot.org/oldnews.html are:
""" Sat Jul 27 18:14:36 EEST 2002
Second developers release, user authentication actually works now. At least with shadow files, not sure about PAM.
Wed Jul 24 11:13:20 EEST 2002
I think I figured out an ideal solution for the authentication problems. See design.txt, all comments welcome. Updated other parts of it as well. """
Jun 11 I had the thought about writing my own imapd. Jun 15 apparently I began coding it.
Jul 24 was also the day I decided to use Dovecot name. It was suggested to me around Jul 18. I'm pretty bad at naming things myself:
16.06.2002 01:52 <cras> oh - i need a name :) simapd was the only thing i could come up with 16.06.2002 01:53 <cras> first timapd for tiny, but i don't think it will be that tiny..
(s=secure in simapd)
oldnews.html has also some funny stuff:
Sun Nov 24 19:39:31 EET 2002
0.99.0 released. All the major features planned for 1.0 are done now.