Dovecot news - Nov 2006 - 1.0.rc12 released

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc12.tar.gz
http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc12.tar.gz.sig

Since rc11 has problems compiling with BSDs, here's a new release. Just
two changes:

	- rc11 didn't compile with some compilers
	- default_mail_env fallbacking was broken with --exec-mail

Here's also again the rc11 changes:

	* Renamed default_mail_env to mail_location. default_mail_env still
	  works for backwards compatibility.
	* deliver: When sending rejects, don't include Content-Type in the
	  rejected mail's headers.
	* LDAP changes:
            * If auth binds are used, bind back to the default dn before doing
	      a search. Otherwise it could fail if a user gave an invalid
	      password.
	    * Initial binding at connect is now done asynchronously.
	    * Use pass_attrs even with auth_bind=yes since it may contain
	      useful non-password fields.

	+ passdb checkpassword: Give TCPLOCALIP and TCPREMOTEIP and PROTO=TCP
	  environments to the checkpassword binary so we're UCSPI (and vchkpw)
	  compatible.
	- mbox handling was a bit broken in rc10
	- Using Dovecot via inetd kept crashing dovecot master
	- deliver: Don't crash with -f "". Changed the default from
envelope
	  to be "MAILER-DAEMON".
	- INBOX wasn't shown with LSUB command if only prefixed namespaces
	  were used.
	- passdb ldap: Reconnecting to LDAP server wasn't working with
	  auth binds.
	- passdb sql: Non-plaintext authentication didn't work
	- MySQL passdb ignored all non-password checks, such as allow_nets
	- trash plugin was broken

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Hi there!

I'm new to the list and Dovecot. I run a mailserver for 2 (low volume)
domains here on Mandriva Linux 2006.0 on a 400 Mhz P-III. My testbed is
Mandriva 2007.0 on 1GHz P-III.

I was planning to rebuild/test my Postfix/Courier based mailserver on the
test machine when I discovered Dovecot. I Installed rc10 and it seems to
work when I just configure (with mysql) and make (install). Since I would
like to build an rpm, I tried rpmbuild with the at src.rpm. That doen't work
for me yet. Some libraries seem to be missing. Strange, because the plain
configure/make does not complain. I will have to look into that again. Maybe
a lib in a dfferent location which I have to state somewhere.

There is no 'real' start/stop init file, as far as I can see. Should I
invent that myself or is there init script around somewhere?  

TIA
Egbert Jan (NL)

Timo,

rc12 seem to be running slow and high load levels. You seem to be 
switching back and forth between being fast and slow. I'm going back to 
rc7 because it worked really well. I'm running MBOX.