On 10/02/2025 20:36 EET Kent Borg via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>
wrote:
On 2/10/25 5:07 AM, Robert Nowotny via dovecot wrote:
>> A default dovecot (el9 rpm) install is compliant as it does not
work
>> and does not do anything, it is just a bunch of binaries on a
disk.
>
and how exactly this answer is useful ?
oh my, I am feeding the troll again ....
I see it as a useful editorial comment, albeit phrased in a trollish
way. And, as trolls will be, it does not show a lot of gratitude for
an
enormous amount of sincere work that has been put into Dovecot.
A more constructive--though still negative--version might be "A
default
el9 RPM install of Dovecot does not work, it requires significant
effort
before it does anything useful.".
That is useful news. My default install of Dovecot 2.3 on Debian 12
(and
on several versions before) all *did* work for me, with a minimal
amount
of appropriate effort.
I have since discovered that replication/dsync on Debian 12 is a
little
like the above "default dovecot (el9 rpm) install": It does not work.
At
least not without significant effort. And even though I now *seem* to
have it working (no crashes reported in this morning's logwatch
e-mail!), to get this far I had to make my own very unnerving guess
at
how to fix sources and compile my own custom .deb files. Even a
completely vanilla build of Debian sources had two failing tests and
no
help on the mailing list as to whether that is something to worry
about
or not…so I commented them out and crossed my fingers. I don't
consider
Debian an obscure distribution, so this seems like news, too.
I wish I had known all this *before* I had embarked on setting up my
new
servers. When I was searching around about how to configure
replication
some comments along these lines (snarky or not) would have been
useful
to me. Even now I would still like some information as to how much I
should trust this last edition of replication, the swansong before it
was removed for version 2.4. (As cobbled together by me, I got no
response at to whether my patch was sensible or not.)
Mostly because it's not the most urgent thing to do. I did look at it quickly
but was not able to determine it's usefulness. Can you open it as github pr,
since its easier to find them there.
2.3 has few unit tests that might fail if ran as root, depending on version.
Aki
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