Timo, Regarding: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-January/006144.html I would like an estimate of where you are on the path to a released (dovecot-1.0). I have read your statement regarding the -stable series and am wondering when we see the first feature complete -beta of v1.0? Thank for your hard efforts. I have been a happy customer for about a year. Ray
On 4.6.2005, at 03:27, Raymond Lillard wrote:> I would like an estimate of where you are on the path to a > released (dovecot-1.0). I have read your statement regarding > the -stable series and am wondering when we see the first > feature complete -beta of v1.0?There are just two missing features: 1. Keyword support for maildir. Shouldn't take too long to code, but I no-one's really asked for it and there are still other things to do. 2. Master process split into 3 processes: config, log and master. And some other major changes to how all Dovecot's processes work together and how configuration is read, parsed and verified. This simplifies things a lot and makes it possible to do some nice things. Some things this change makes possible are: - Dovecot LDA won't need a separate config file anymore - Config file process can be replaced, for example with one that reads it from SQL database - Makes it much more easier to write support for having different configuration based on user, domain, ip-block or whatever - Master process won't kill itself anymore if some of its child processes die while starting. Instead it just won't try to start them for next 5 minutes - Just in general it makes everything so much simpler and prettier :) I've been implementing this slowly over the last few months. Takes annoyingly long (it's boring), but it's getting there. In the mean time IMAP and POP3 code in 1.0-tests keep stabilizing nicely. So after this one large change things may be a bit unstable for a while, but after that 1.0 should be very near :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050606/94aa0393/attachment-0001.bin>
Timo Sirainen wrote:> There are just two missing features: > > 1. Keyword support for maildir. Shouldn't take too long to code, but I > no-one's really asked for it and there are still other things to do.Is Keyword support the bit that allows my Thunderbird and Becky! users to 'label' their messages as important/personal/etc? If so, it's the one thing that's been stopping me from moving to 1.0... -- Curtis Maloney
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:36:10AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:> There are just two missing features:How about the mixing of Maildir and mbox? (See the thread I started previously at http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-March/006390.html) Any steps in this direction? Could this be made easier after those changes? It would be really a useful possibility - but I have had little time to deal with our IMAP recently (still running Dovecot 0.99), so I didn't do any real work towards it myself... -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.
> I've been implementing this slowly over the last few months. Takes > annoyingly long (it's boring), but it's getting there. In the mean time > IMAP and POP3 code in 1.0-tests keep stabilizing nicely. So after this > one large change things may be a bit unstable for a while, but after > that 1.0 should be very near :)I personally think one small issue in the current dovecot is kind of a showstopper. If a user exceeded their quota, dovecot will just plain not work at all. So a user can also not delete their email to remedy the situation. This is what happens when a customer (without previously having used dovecot) connects: A002 SELECT "INBOX" A002 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005- 05-31 17:56:36] The internal error is a 'quota exceeded'. I think at the very minimum someone should be able to delete email... Regards, Cor