Headsup on feature removal

[Remo Mattei]

So I am on of the many users with qmail, and using vpopmail auth, I guess chatting with some other guys in the other mailing list we will convert to mysql driver but this is a lot of work for many people. 

I do understand dropping things out but a valid solutions needs to be proposed. 

Remo 

> On Mar 18, 2020, at 06:49, Michael Peddemors <michael at linuxmagic.com> wrote:
> 
> Amongst other plug-ins, yes..
> 
> On 2020-03-17 10:15 p.m., Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> Those plugins can be resurrected with simple `git revert`.
>> Are you planning on open sourcing your client id authetication plugin?
>> Aki
>>> On 18/03/2020 01:44 Michael Peddemors < michael at linuxmagic.com <mailto:michael at linuxmagic.com> <mailto:michael at linuxmagic.com <mailto:michael at linuxmagic.com>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> With these planned changes, you mention they will be removed from
>>> 'core', so is the intention to allow more of these legacy plugins to
>>> more to their own repo's for those that might still want to use them?
>>> 
>>> Eg, more in the the path of plug-in architecture? Just curious for
>>> clarity.
>>> 
>>> Oh, and have to add.. still waiting on the variable capability patch, to
>>> allow plugins to modify advertised capabilities. (#pull request 86)
>>> 
>>> This will allow us to provide our dove cot plugins more widely to the
>>> community.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2020-03-16 11:50 p.m., Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>>> 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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> 
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