can an old config be used with changes?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> There is a sample configuration file installed to /etc/dovecot during
> installation process, based on doc/dovecot.conf.in.
>
> The .ext.conf files are no more needed as they are inlined into the
> configuration itself, and we decided to drop the conf.d
> example files. We still use some in debian/rhel packaging to enable
> certain protocols upon installation.
>
> Aki
>
> > On 24/01/2025 19:58 EET Larry Rosenman via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Where is the sample configuration files now?  I don't see them in the
> > tarball.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM Aki Tuomi via Dovecot-news <
> > dovecot-n...@dovecot.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > after a very long wait we are finally happy to release Dovecot v2.4.0!
> > >
> > > Some IMPORTANT things to notice:
> > >
> > >  - We have changed the signing key for 2.4 going forward, releases are
> > > signed with EF0882079FD4ED32BF8B23B2A1B09EF84EDC5219, which can be
> found at
> > > https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.4 and is signed with the
> > > previous key.
> > >
> > > The old key has been renamed to
> > > https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.3.
> > >
> > > - New 2.4 packages **are not** compatible with old 2.3 configuration,
> > > please carefully review
> > > https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
> before
> > > installing the new packages.
> > >
> > > - We are happy to provide experimental arm64 support in the form of a
> > > Docker image.
> > >
> > > - Docker images are now ran rootless, with UID 1000 as vmail using
> built
> > > sources. Please take this into consideration when upgrading. Latest 2.3
> > > image can be used with tag 2.3-latest, if you are not ready for this
> change.
> > >
> > > We won't be sending separate mail about Pigeonhole anymore as we will
> > > release one anyways when we release Dovecot, and Pigeonhole versioning
> has
> > > been changed to match Dovecot versioning.
> > >
> > > Source codes available at
> > >
> > > - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz
> > > - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig
> > > -
> > >
> https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz
> > > -
> > >
> https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig
> > >
> > > Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/
> > > Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Aki Tuomi
> > > Open-Xchange oy
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Dovecot Core NEWS
> > > -----------------
> > > * config: dovecot_config_version must be the first non-comment
> > >   line in configuration file.
> > > * config: dovecot_storage_version must be in the configuration
> > >   file.
> > > * config: Many configuration options have changed so old configuration
> > >   files do not work without rewrite. See
> > >   https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
> > > * config: New variable expansion syntax has been introduced, see
> > >   https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/settings/variables.html
> > > * config: Some default settings have changed.
> > > * config: plugin {} section has been removed.
> > > * *-login: With ssl=required, connections from login_trusted_networks
> > >   are now also required to be SSL/TLS encrypted.
> > > * acl: Use ACL settings instead of Global ACL Directories.
> > > * auth-worker: auth_worker_max_count is replaced with
> > >   service auth-worker { process_limit }.
> > > * auth: Weak password schemes are disabled by default, use
> > >   auth_allow_weak_schemes to enable them.
> > > * auth_debug, mail_debug: Use log_debug filter instead.
> > > * config: All sections require a name, for example passdb/userdb:
> > >   passdb static {
> > >      password=secret
> > >    }
> > > * db2: Remove Berkeley DB support.
> > > * dict-memcached: This is removed, use Redis instead.
> > > * director: Feature has been removed. See potential replacement at
> > >   https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/director.lua
> > > * doveadm: USER environment variable is only supported with
> > >   --no-userdb-lookup. One of -u, -F or -A must be used
> > >   otherwise.
> > > * doveconf: Option -n is now default when running doveconf.
> > > * dsync: Use doveadm sync instead, legacy symlink has been removed.
> > > * fs-sis: Feature is now deprecated and has been made read-only.
> > >   It will be removed in future release.
> > > * fts-lucene, fts-squat: These have been removed, use fts-flatcurve or
> > >   fts-solr instead.
> > > * imap-login: IMAP compression is now handled in proxies.
> > > * imap_quota: SETQUOTA / quota_set has been removed.
> > > * imap_zlib: This plugin is no longer needed, it's always enabled.
> > > * imapc: All features are enabled by default, imapc_features can be
> used
> > >   to explicitly disable features that are not wanted.
> > > * lib-storage: mbox driver is now frozen.
> > > * mail_compress: XZ and LZMA algorithm support has been removed.
> > > * mailbox-alias: Plugin has been removed.
> > > * old_stats, auth_stats: These have been removed.
> > > * openssl: Minimum supported version of OpenSSL is now 1.1.1.
> > > * openssl: Add support for OpenSSL 3.x
> > > * quota-dict, quota-dirsize: These have been removed, use quota-count
> > >   instead. You can use quota_clone to copy quota usage to some
> database.
> > > * replicator: Feature has been removed. Use NFS or some other shared
> > >   filesystem instead, or run doveadm sync in crontab.
> > > * stats: The bytes_in and bytes_out field in several events have been
> > >   renamed as net_in_bytes and net_out_bytes.
> > > * zlib: Renamed to mail_compress plugin.
> > > + Experimental SMTPUTF8 and IMAP UTF8=ACCEPT support has been added.
> > >   Needs --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 configure option and
> > >   mail_utf8_extensions=yes setting.
> > > + Long running mail commands can be aborted with Ctrl-C / doveadm kick.
> > > + auth: LDAP driver now supports multi-value attributes.
> > > + auth: Add support for SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS.
> > > + auth: Add support for TLS channel binding.
> > > + auth: Support sending JA3 hash to policy server.
> > > + configure: Detect latest Lua version.
> > > + *-login: Support for TLS Server Name has been improved to allow
> pre-login
> > >   settings. For example capabilities to be changed based on TLS Server
> > > Name.
> > > + *-login: Support for TLS ALPN has been added, connections with
> > > mismatching
> > >   application are now refused. Missing ALPN is accepted.
> > > + fts-flatcurve: New Xapian based FTS plugin has been added.
> > > + imap: Support for INPROGRESS untagged messages as per RFC 9585.
> > > + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot DNS client.
> > > + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot HTTP client.
> > > + lib-sasl: Support SCRAM-SHA mechanisms.
> > > + lmtp: SNI support has been added which allows settings to be applied
> > >   based on TLS Server Name.
> > > + sqlite: Support WAL mode.
> > > + stats: Submetric name size has been increased.
> > > + submission: Add submission_add_received_header setting to protect
> > >   sender identity by suppressing the Received: header.
> > > - Many bugs have been fixed.
> > >
> > > Pigeonhole NEWS
> > > ---------------
> > > * Change configuration syntax to match new Dovecot configuration
> syntax.
> > > * vacation: Reduce default days to 60 from infinity
> > > * vacation: vacation_max_period=0 is now an error.
> > > * Version has been changed to match Dovecot version.
> > > + Added i;unicode-casecmp comparator.
> > > - Lots of bugs have been fixed.
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
> > Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c)         E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org
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Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c)         E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org
US Mail: 13425 Ranch Road 620 N, Apt 718, Austin, TX 78717-1010
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