Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-04-17 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Hello Aki Can you elaborate about memory management issues in liblzma & dovecot? Regards El 19/03/2020 a las 20:07, Aki Tuomi escribió: After discussing it internally, we decided to postpone the xz removal for the time being. We understand the complexity of migrating away from it, so we want

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Peddemors
For the record, the SQL method will not always work in every environment, and might entail a lot more overhead in some environments than the simpler 'checkpassword' methods. Q. How many people use the checkpassword method still on this list? Might recommend that be left in longer, however wave

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-19 Thread Aki Tuomi
Hi! We appreciate the feedback we have received from everyone, and we have discussed it internally. The features we are removing are deprecated and should not have been used anymore. They all have alternatives that work equally well if not better. For the authentication drivers, you can use pa

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-19 Thread Rob Sterenborg (Lists)
On 18-03-2020 22:55, Noel Butler wrote: On 19/03/2020 03:56, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ wrote: I fully agree with this: Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major release, 2.4.0 instead.  It makes sense to retain, in as much as is possible, feature backwards compatibilit

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-19 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Thank-you for the heads-up notification. It is very helpful for planning. Unfortunately we do not allow any languages to be installed on production systems (per the security people). As we do use autocreate/subscribe plugins, could you please direct us to any workaround for our current use of pl

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Noel Butler
On 19/03/2020 03:56, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ wrote: > I fully agree with this: > >> Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major >> release, 2.4.0 instead. It makes sense to retain, in as much as is >> possible, feature backwards compatibility across a major release. I'

RE: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ
I fully agree with this: > Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major > release, 2.4.0 instead. It makes sense to retain, in as much as is > possible, feature backwards compatibility across a major release.

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
    xz compression support for mdbox is used extensively here. Why are you planning to remove it? El 17/03/2020 a las 7:50, Aki Tuomi escribió: Hi! Dovecot is now a nearly 20 year old product, and during that time it has accumulated many different features and plugins in its core repository.

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Markus Schönhaber
18.03.20, 04:32 CET, Peter: > Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major > release, 2.4.0 instead. It makes sense to retain, in as much as is > possible, feature backwards compatibility across a major release. Seconded! That you are going to drop features from the code

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-17 Thread Peter
On 17/03/20 7:50 pm, Aki Tuomi wrote: Dovecot is now a nearly 20 year old product, and during that time it has accumulated many different features and plugins in its core repository. We are starting to gradually remove some of these parts, which are unused, untested or deprecated. We will prov