On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM Joseph Tam via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>
wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2025, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> There is no reason why anyone should go through a 'special download
> process' to open a .tar.gz, or no?
> I suppose you just need to fix whatever is wrong with the file.
This issue bites me often. There's nothing wrong with the archive --
the original URL you used
https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-
example-config.tar.gz
is not interpreted by Github as an archive file, but a page
describing
the content. If you use a browser to extract the raw download link
https://github.com/dovecot/tools/raw/refs/heads/main/dovecot-
2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz
wget can work with that. It worked for me, at least.
I fetched that with wget, and it extracted the way I'd expect!
The thing has bothered me for weeks now! Thanks.
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wash@eu:~/Mara$ tar -zxvf dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz
conf.d/
conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext
conf.d/99-local.conf
conf.d/20-submission.conf
conf.d/20-lmtp.conf
conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext
conf.d/auth-master.conf.ext
conf.d/15-lda.conf
conf.d/20-managesieve.conf
conf.d/10-ssl.conf
conf.d/30-dict-server.conf
conf.d/auth-static.conf.ext
conf.d/90-sieve.conf
conf.d/auth-oauth2.conf.ext
conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf
conf.d/20-pop3.conf
conf.d/10-mail.conf
conf.d/auth-ldap.conf.ext
conf.d/90-acl.conf
conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
conf.d/10-logging.conf
conf.d/10-master.conf
conf.d/10-metrics.conf
conf.d/20-imap.conf
conf.d/auth-deny.conf.ext
conf.d/10-auth.conf
conf.d/90-quota.conf
conf.d/90-fts.conf
dovecot.conf
local.conf
README
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
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