Support

Today our support team upgrade Dovecot from 1.0.5 to 1.0.8 for many bug fixes and performance as follow:

• IDLE: Interval between mailbox change notifies is now 1 second, because some clients keep a long-running IDLE connection and use other connections to actually read the mails.
• SORT: If Date: header is missing or broken, fallback to using INTERNALDATE (as the SORT draft nowadays specifies).
• deliver: If message begins with a "From " line, ignore it.
• zlib plugin: If maildir file has a "Z" flag, open it with zlib.
• CREATE: Don't assert-crash if trying to create namespace prefix.
• SEARCH: Fixes to handling NOT operator with sequence ranges.
• LDAP reconnection fixes
• Maildir: Don't break when renaming mailboxes with '*' or '%' characters and children.
• mbox: Fixed "file size unexpectedly shrinked" error in some conditions.
• quota+mbox: Don't fail if trying to delete a directory.
• Fixes to running from inetd
• deliver: v1.0.6's "From " line ignoring could have written to a bad location in stack, possibly causing problems.
• Authentication: Added "password_noscheme" field that can be used instead of "password". "password" treats "{prefix}" as a password scheme while "password_noscheme" treats it as part of the password itself. So "password_noscheme" should be used if you're storing passwords as plaintext. Non-plaintext passwords never begin with "{", so this isn't a problem with them.
• IMAP: Partial body fetching was sometimes non-optimal, causing the entire message to be read for every FETCH command.
• deliver failed to save the message when envelope sender address contained spaces.
• Maildir++ quota: We could have randomly recalculated quota when it wasn't necessary.
• Login process could have crashed after logging in if client sent data before "OK Logged in" reply was sent (i.e. before master had replied that login succeeded).
• Don't assert-crash when reading dovecot.index.logs generated by Dovecot v1.1.
• Authentication: Don't assert-crash if password beings with "{" but doesn't contain "}".
• Authentication cache didn't work when using settings that changed the username (e.g. auth_username_format).