Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released / Dovecot 5 years old
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 17:24 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Jul 24 was also the day I decided to use Dovecot name. It was suggested to me around Jul 18. I'm pretty bad at naming things myself: I have always been interested how you got around to naming Dovecot. The name came from Mika Boström in IRC (or SILC probably, because I can't find the discussion from my logs). I wasn't sure if I wanted to use it first, but no-one else came up with anything better. Is there any other meaning intended apart from what the dictionary says (and which seems little related to imap software :) Pigeons used to carry mail and live in dovecots, so Dovecot is the house for email :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:03 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: Hi Timo, wasnt full imap acl planed for the 1.1 release, i dont see it here .should i take new glasses*gg?? It was, but the plans changed a bit because some people want to have dbox rewrite in production in a couple of months. :) So the plan is now to get a stable v1.1 out soon, do the dbox rewrite and after that continue with v1.2 which will have ACLs, virtual mailboxes, etc. Ok, i understand , sounds great - -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer https://www.schetterer.org Germany -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnyW3fGH2AvR16oERAnSdAJ4qraPa8iFrXbChCCLkkGKvkG4oTACfVgLn z1XqmYzpc8mboAjYbk+yZP8= =SVAx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So the plan is now to get a stable v1.1 out soon, do the dbox rewrite and after that continue with v1.2 which will have ACLs, virtual mailboxes, etc. Where is single-instance-storage now on the roadmap? Is that a 2.0+ feature? Or maybe 1.2 or 1.3? Just curious... Dovecot just keep getting better and better... thanks! -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
On 19.7.2007, at 17.12, Charles Marcus wrote: On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So the plan is now to get a stable v1.1 out soon, do the dbox rewrite and after that continue with v1.2 which will have ACLs, virtual mailboxes, etc. Where is single-instance-storage now on the roadmap? Is that a 2.0+ feature? Or maybe 1.2 or 1.3? It's a dbox feature, so probably v1.2, maybe even v1.1. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
Where is single-instance-storage now on the roadmap? Is that a 2.0+ feature? Or maybe 1.2 or 1.3? It's a dbox feature, so probably v1.2, maybe even v1.1. Wheee! Cool... but two follow-ups if you don't mind... Is this going to initially be just for attachments? Or for the entire message (not a big deal if it is only attachments, as it is attachments I'm mostly concerned about)? and Will conversion of an existing mail store take place automatically (as users are converted to dbox), or will there be a migration tool of some kind? Thanks again for all you do! -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
On 7/19/2007, Timo Sirainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is this going to initially be just for attachments? Or for the entire message (not a big deal if it is only attachments, as it is attachments I'm mostly concerned about)? I think I'll make the dbox format itself support both, but at least initially it's done only for attachments. By the way... it just occurred to me... We are talking about Single Instance Storage across the entire namespace, not just on a per dbox file, right? Will conversion of an existing mail store take place automatically (as users are converted to dbox), or will there be a migration tool of some kind? Convert plugin can be used to do that. I was thinking about making maildir - dbox conversion superfast by allowing the maildir files be used directly as dbox files. Only when some dbox metadata needs to be written the file will have to be rewritten into dbox format. Interesting - so they would auto-self-convert only when necessary? Impressive... -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:37:05 +0300 Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig This is the first alpha release of Dovecot v1.1. I hope that it stabilizes into final release within a few months. There are a lot of new features since v1.0. The most important ones are listed at the end of this post. Is there an updated Sieve plug-in which works with 1.1?
[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig This is the first alpha release of Dovecot v1.1. I hope that it stabilizes into final release within a few months. There are a lot of new features since v1.0. The most important ones are listed at the end of this post. This is the only v1.1.alpha announcement I send to dovecot-news list (or to www.dovecot.org news). The next one probably will be v1.1.rc1. I've been stress testing the code a lot and I've also been using it myself for almost a year, so I think this release should actually be quite stable and usable. But since I haven't tested everything, there might be some crashes and misbehaving commands. So this release should now have all the major features that I intend to add to v1.1 (except for dbox rewrite, see below). Some smaller features will still be added. The rest of the major features in my previous v1.1 list will go to v1.2. While v1.1 is getting stabilized I'm beginning to rewrite dbox code. Its code is isolated from the rest of Dovecot, so it can't destabilize anything else. Hopefully it will be ready before v1.1 release, although maybe still marked as experimental. Some of the features might not be considered quite ready yet: - Mailbox list indexes improve STATUS performance a lot (maybe 7x) when mailboxes haven't changed. Handling updates however is a lot slower than I'd want (2x with one client, more with multiple), so you may want to disable them with mailbox_list_index_disable=yes until the update performance gets better. - THREAD code is completely rewritten with support for incremental updates and index files. I tested it last year and it seemed OK, but I didn't dare try it now so I wouldn't have to delay this alpha if it was broken :) I'll do some more testing soon, but for now be careful with using v1.1 with webmails. - SORT code also uses indexes now, but it's a lot simpler so it probably works. - Squat indexes work and I'm using them myself, but they'll be rewritten for v1.2 with a new faster format. - Although Dovecot now flushes NFS attribute/data caches when needed, I'm not sure if it's done in all the necessary places. - I don't remember if I've tested expire plugin at all. So, the largest changes I've added to NEWS file (which BTW won't contain changes between alphas/betas/rcs, those will be only in my mailing list posts): * After Dovecot v1.1 has modified index or dovecot-uidlist files, they can't be opened anymore with Dovecot versions earlier than v1.0.2. * Empty passwords in passdb doesn't allow user to log in with any password anymore. To do that you'll also need to set nopassword extra field. + IMAP: Added support for UIDPLUS and LIST-EXTENDED extensions. + IMAP SORT: Sort keys are indexed, which makes SORT commands faster. + IMAP THREAD: Threads are indexed into a dovecot.index.thread file. It can usually be updated incrementally, so this makes THREAD fast. + Added Dovecot-specific X-REFERENCES2 threading algorithm. It's similar to REFERENCES, but it doesn't do base subject merging and it sorts the threads by their newest message. + When saving messages, update cache file immediately with the data that we expect client to fetch later. Maildir-only currently. + NFS attribute and data caches are are flushed whenever needed. See mail_nfs_storage and mail_nfs_index settings. + Mailbox list indexes. Mailbox metadata is stored there, so STATUS commands can return synchronized mailboxes' metadata simply by reading a single mailbox list index file. Currently works only with Maildir++ layout. + Out of order command execution (SEARCH, FETCH, LIST), nonstandard command cancellation (X-CANCEL tag) + Expire plugin can be used to keep track of oldest messages in specific mailboxes. A nightly run can then quickly expunge old messages from the mailboxes that have them. The tracking is done using lib-dict, so you can use either Berkeley DB or SQL database. + Namespaces are supported everywhere now. + Full text search indexing support with Lucene and Squat backends. + OTP and S/KEY authentication mechanisms (by Andrey Panin). + mbox and Maildir works with both Maildir++ and FS layouts. You can change these by appending :LAYOUT=maildir++ or :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location. + LDAP: Support templates in pass_attrs and user_attrs + Support for listening in multiple IPs/ports. + Quota plugin rewrite: Support for multiple quota roots, warnings, allow giving storage size in bytes or kilo/mega/giga/terabytes, per-mailbox quota rules. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released
Hello Timo! Is the deliver/index update code also included for mbox mailboxes? Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/ On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig This is the first alpha release of Dovecot v1.1. I hope that it stabilizes into final release within a few months. There are a lot of new features since v1.0. The most important ones are listed at the end of this post. This is the only v1.1.alpha announcement I send to dovecot-news list (or to www.dovecot.org news). The next one probably will be v1.1.rc1. I've been stress testing the code a lot and I've also been using it myself for almost a year, so I think this release should actually be quite stable and usable. But since I haven't tested everything, there might be some crashes and misbehaving commands. So this release should now have all the major features that I intend to add to v1.1 (except for dbox rewrite, see below). Some smaller features will still be added. The rest of the major features in my previous v1.1 list will go to v1.2. While v1.1 is getting stabilized I'm beginning to rewrite dbox code. Its code is isolated from the rest of Dovecot, so it can't destabilize anything else. Hopefully it will be ready before v1.1 release, although maybe still marked as experimental. Some of the features might not be considered quite ready yet: - Mailbox list indexes improve STATUS performance a lot (maybe 7x) when mailboxes haven't changed. Handling updates however is a lot slower than I'd want (2x with one client, more with multiple), so you may want to disable them with mailbox_list_index_disable=yes until the update performance gets better. - THREAD code is completely rewritten with support for incremental updates and index files. I tested it last year and it seemed OK, but I didn't dare try it now so I wouldn't have to delay this alpha if it was broken :) I'll do some more testing soon, but for now be careful with using v1.1 with webmails. - SORT code also uses indexes now, but it's a lot simpler so it probably works. - Squat indexes work and I'm using them myself, but they'll be rewritten for v1.2 with a new faster format. - Although Dovecot now flushes NFS attribute/data caches when needed, I'm not sure if it's done in all the necessary places. - I don't remember if I've tested expire plugin at all. So, the largest changes I've added to NEWS file (which BTW won't contain changes between alphas/betas/rcs, those will be only in my mailing list posts): * After Dovecot v1.1 has modified index or dovecot-uidlist files, they can't be opened anymore with Dovecot versions earlier than v1.0.2. * Empty passwords in passdb doesn't allow user to log in with any password anymore. To do that you'll also need to set nopassword extra field. + IMAP: Added support for UIDPLUS and LIST-EXTENDED extensions. + IMAP SORT: Sort keys are indexed, which makes SORT commands faster. + IMAP THREAD: Threads are indexed into a dovecot.index.thread file. It can usually be updated incrementally, so this makes THREAD fast. + Added Dovecot-specific X-REFERENCES2 threading algorithm. It's similar to REFERENCES, but it doesn't do base subject merging and it sorts the threads by their newest message. + When saving messages, update cache file immediately with the data that we expect client to fetch later. Maildir-only currently. + NFS attribute and data caches are are flushed whenever needed. See mail_nfs_storage and mail_nfs_index settings. + Mailbox list indexes. Mailbox metadata is stored there, so STATUS commands can return synchronized mailboxes' metadata simply by reading a single mailbox list index file. Currently works only with Maildir++ layout. + Out of order command execution (SEARCH, FETCH, LIST), nonstandard command cancellation (X-CANCEL tag) + Expire plugin can be used to keep track of oldest messages in specific mailboxes. A nightly run can then quickly expunge old messages from the mailboxes that have them. The tracking is done using lib-dict, so you can use either Berkeley DB or SQL database. + Namespaces are supported everywhere now. + Full text search indexing support with Lucene and Squat backends. + OTP and S/KEY authentication mechanisms (by Andrey Panin). + mbox and Maildir works with both Maildir++ and FS layouts. You can change these by appending :LAYOUT=maildir++ or :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location. + LDAP: Support templates in pass_attrs and user_attrs + Support for listening in multiple IPs/ports. + Quota plugin rewrite: Support for multiple quota roots, warnings, allow
