[Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

[Javier Miguel Rodríguez]

     xz compression support for mdbox is used extensively here. Why are 
you planning to remove it?

El 17/03/2020 a las 7:50, Aki Tuomi escribió:
> Hi!
>
> Dovecot is now a nearly 20 year old product, and during that time it has accumulated many different features and plugins in its core repository.
>
> We are starting to gradually remove some of these parts, which are unused, untested or deprecated.
> We will provide advance notification before removing anything.
>
> To start, the following features are likely to be removed in next few releases of Dovecot.
>
>   - Authentication drivers: vpopmail, checkpassword, bsdauth, shadow, sia
>   - Password schemes: HMAC-MD5, RPA, SKEY, PLAIN-MD4, LANMAN, NTLM, SMD5
>   - Authentication mechanisms: ntlm, rpa, skey
>   - Dict drivers: memcached, memcached-ascii (use redis instead)
>   - postfix postmap support
>   - autocreate & autosubscribe plugins (use built-in auto=create/subscribe setting instead)
>   - expire plugin (use built-in autoexpunge setting)
>   - fts-squat plugin
>   - mailbox alias plugin
>   - mail-filter plugin
>   - snarf plugin
>   - xz compression algorithm
>
> For the authentication drivers that are being removed, we suggest using Lua as a replacement. See
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/lua_based_authentication/
>
> For information about converting between password schemes, see
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes
>
> If you are using any of these features, please start preparing for their removal in the near
> future. Features will begin to be dropped as of v2.3.11.
>
> Additionally, the mbox format will no longer receive new development. It will still be
> maintained, however its use beyond migrations and other limited use cases will be discouraged.
>
> Please contact us via the mailing list if you have any questions.
>
> Regards,
> Dovecot Team
>
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