Any update on this? Should I fill a bug-report for doveadm altmove -r not working?

Regards

Javier

El 28/03/2021 a las 18:00, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ escribió:

Any update on this? Dovecot 2.3.14 makes doveadm altmove -r functional?

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*De:* dovecot <dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org> en nombre de María Arrea <maria_arrea@gmx.com> *Enviado:* Monday, March 22, 2021 3:15:13 PM *Cc:* dovecot@dovecot.org <dovecot@dovecot.org> *Asunto:* Re: Question about doveadm altmove zlib plugin, as far as I know, only supports zstd, gzip, bzip2 and lzma/xz compression. The last one is being deprecated. I have found this interesting post in the mailing list: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2021-February/121329.html Same problem here with Dovecot 2.3.13, "doveadm altmove -r" is not moving anything from alternate to default storage. I fixed this by reverting this commit:

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Hello.

We are running dovecot 2.3.13. Full doveconf -n output below

In 2.3.14 Changelog I found this:

• Remove XZ/LZMA write support. Read support will be removed in future release. We are using mdbox + XZ/LZMA for alternate storage (messages older

https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/2795f6183049a8a4cc489869b3e866dc20a8a... <https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/2795f6183049a8a4cc489869b3e866dc20a8a732> Is this fixed in 2.3.14 ? Does doveadm altmove -r works as expected in 2.3.14? Regards *Sent:* Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 11:28 PM *From:* "justina colmena ~biz" <justina@colmena.biz> *To:* dovecot@dovecot.org *Subject:* Re: Question about doveadm altmove On Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:16:28 PM AKDT María Arrea wrote: than 2

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weeks are moved to ALT storage via cron job), so we must convert from XZ to another thing (maybe zstd or bz2).

Why can't you just pipe the output of "doveadm altmove" command through an external command to do the XZ/LZMA compression if dovecot no longer supports it internally?

From doveadm-altmove (1):

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This command can be used with sdbox or mdbox storage to move mails to alternative storage path when :ALT=<path> is specified for the mail location.

And that's set in stone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils>

So what are the issues with xz? Security? Crashes or viruses on expanding invalid archives?