Well, the wget was the native one from Debian 12 (Bookworm). Now:
wash@gw:~$ uname -a FreeBSD gw.kictanet.or.ke 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 wash@gw:~$ wget https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0- example-config.tar.gz --2025-05-28 22:41:01-- https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot- 2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.113.3 Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.113.3|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: 'dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz' dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz [ <=> ] 173.07K 179KB/s in 1.0s 2025-05-28 22:41:04 (179 KB/s) - 'dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz' saved [177227] wash@gw:~$ tar xzvf dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format wash@gw:~$ I have previously downloaded that archive and had to go through hoops to get the files, even on Windows using 7zip! I hope I am not crazy, or all my computers haven't adopted my craziness! On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com> wrote: > On 28/05/2025 22:30 EEST Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > wrote: > > > > > > On 28/05/2025 12:33 EEST Brent Clark via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm in the process of upgrading from Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4 and would > > > appreciate some help translating an existing configuration that uses a > > > proxy lookup for user and password databases. > > > > > > Here's the relevant 2.3 configuration: > > > > > > |passdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict- auth.conf.ext } > > > userdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict- auth.conf.ext } > > > uri= proxy:/var/run/mail_directory_service/socket:somewhere > > > password_key= passdb/%u user_key= userdb/%u iterate_disable= yes | > > > > > > This configuration was working fine in 2.3 to proxy user and password > > > lookups to an external service via a Unix socket. However, Dovecot 2.4 > > > has reworked configuration parsing, and this syntax no longer appears > > > valid. I couldn’t find a direct equivalent in the 2.4 documentation. > > > > > > Could someone advise how this should be adapted for 2.4? > > > > > > What’s the correct way to specify the proxy: URI in 2.4? > > > > > > Are password_key and user_key still supported, or should I be using > > > a different mechanism? > > > > > > Is iterate_disable = yes still relevant or required in this context? > > > > > > Any guidance, examples, or pointers to migration resources would be very > > > helpful. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Brent Clark > > > Hi all, > > > I'm in the process of upgrading from Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4 and would > > appreciate > > > some help translating an existing configuration that uses a proxy lookup > > for > > > user and password databases. > > > Here's the relevant 2.3 configuration: > > > passdb { > > > driver =dict > > > args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext > > > } > > > userdb { > > > driver =dict > > > args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext > > > } > > > > > > > > > uri = proxy:/var/run/mail_directory_service/socket:somewhere > > > password_key = passdb/%u > > > user_key = userdb/%u > > > iterate_disable = yes > > > > > > This configuration was working fine in 2.3 to proxy user and password > > lookups > > > to an external service via a Unix socket. However, Dovecot 2.4 has > > reworked > > > configuration parsing, and this syntax no longer appears valid. I > > couldn’t find > > > a direct equivalent in the 2.4 documentation. > > > > > > Could someone advise how this should be adapted for 2.4? > > > > > > What’s the correct way to specify the proxy: URI in 2.4? > > > > > > Are password_key and user_key still supported, or should I be using a > > > different mechanism? > > > > > > Is iterate_disable = yes still relevant or required in this context? > > > > > > Any guidance, examples, or pointers to migration resources would be very > > > helpful. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Brent Clark > > > > Hi! > > > > Please see > > https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/installation/upgrade/2.3-to- 2.4.html and > > https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example- config.tar.gz, > > hopefully these already help you forward. > > > > Aki > > > > > You guys need to fix that example config archive! > > root@eu:/home/wash/Mara.Cloud# wget > https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example- config.tar.gz > --2025-05-28 13:03:53-- > https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example- config.tar.gz > Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.121.3 > Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.3|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: unspecified [text/html] > Saving to: ‘dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz’ > > dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz [ <=> > > ] 172.85K --.- KB/s in > 0.07s > > 2025-05-28 13:03:54 (2.57 MB/s) - ‘dovecot-2.4.0-example- config.tar.gz’ > saved [176999] > The tar is fine, your wget is not. Aki -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]
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