Hello,

thanks for your reply.

Am 15.02.2019 um 17:34 schrieb Michael Slusarz via dovecot:
On February 15, 2019 at 3:35 AM Hajo Locke via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:

Thanks for your reply, so iam not the only one. I think downgrading is not an option for me. Ubuntu 18.04 comes with openssl 1.1.0 and it seems that older versions like 2.2.22 not compile successful.
Best way for me would be a patch from Ubuntu-side, but without any errormessage or something its wasted time to file a bugreport.  Though Ubuntu 18.04 should run for next 5 years.
https://repo.dovecot.org/

michael
Without statement of dovecot developers i dont like upgrading. I want to explain:  One should think that latest versions in 2.2 tree are almost bugfree and stable.  But this one is ugly. dovecot crashes its index without noticing by itself and hiding new mails. To be particular dovecot is not usable in a classic mbox setup with this versions.
Obviously this problem is unknown to developers, else i expected a short answer. So it is still thinkable that this problem still exists in 2.3 versions. At this point it's frustrating and disappointing that this case is ignored by developers.  My first mail was 11 days ago.
Not every user is an early adopter with 2.3 versions/mdbox etc. the bigger the company the slower upgrades are deployed. We have several hundreds of affected servers with 2.2.33.2, we have several thousands servers with older versions without this problem, which should get updated next weeks/months.
For upgrading i need a version where this problem is fixed (we can package by ourselfes if needed). we dont need newest features, just a stable classic imapd. we cant use our customers as dummies and test different versions to see if a bug is fixed or may be other issues appear.
I hope there is an understanding for our situation.

Thanks,
Hajo