Re: dovecot 2.4 changes

24 Jan 2026

      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:
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:11PM Curtis J Blank via dovecot
&lt;[1]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 :-)
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Re: dovecot 2.4 changes

John Hill