Dear Maintainer,

Dovecot 2.4.0 has been much anticipated and is released.
Announcement: https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot-news@dovecot.org/thread/UYNR6GBP25XEGFCS633SWPR4HXV3NSS3/
Upgrade Details: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html

Includes built-in full-text-indexing, better security options, UTF8 support improvements and more.
Some breaking config changes are in there as well.

Would love to see 2.4.0 in testing and ultimately in trixie.

This in the works (see [1] and [2]), but the config file changes cause
some problems.  The fact that upstream doesn't provide a working example
config equivalent to the one provided with 2.3.x does help.  If you'd
like to contribute, porting the old default config to the new version
would be extremely helpful.

noah

1. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dovecot/-/merge_requests/43
2. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dovecot/-/tree/pkg-rename?ref_type=heads

I've just uploaded dovecot 1:2.4.0+dfsg1-1~exp1 to experimental.  Please
test to the extent that you're able.

I did *not* go ahead with the previously proposed package rename (at
least not yet), so the binary packages are still named dovecot-*

Note also that there appear to be build issues on (at least) i386, which
look on first glance like they're related to the 64 bit time_t change.
I'm not sure it's worth fixing those, but am happy to hear other
opinions and/or review patches.

noah

Please
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Hi Noah,

thanks for doing the 2.4 upload.
I just backported it to my arm64 bookworm mail server.
The update wasn't that smooth with all the config changes needed.

And I had to recompile exim with this patch from upstream:

https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/thread/NOUF5J4K4F7FPQ73FWAFGAMXOMZIOUE3/#ISAVM5BAIDUDAA5YTVY337AHK36KGIB6

Else Exim Authentication via Dovecot doestn't work.

Now it's working fine. Though it's only a small system.

Cheers
Felix

Thanks. I'm not sure what we can realistically do about that,
unfortunately.  It's not feasible to write a configuration translation
tool, and I don't think upstream intends to produce one, either.

Thanks; I saw that on the mailing list and will request that it be
applied in the Debian packages (if it hasn't been already)

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.  Which dovecot-* packages do you use?

noah

Am Sonntag, dem 16.02.2025 um 13:18 -0500 schrieb Noah Meyerhans:
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Hi,

I saw afterwards that it will be included in next Exim upload:

https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4/-/commit/446504762c83e7b5b3d22323e84891b85a2f6b13
Only d-imapd, d-lmtpd, d-managesieved , d-sieve and d-flatcurve.

Regards
Felix

close 1095613
thanks

This was done some time ago...