Hi John,

On Sunday, January 4th, 2026 at 12:22 AM, John Fawcett via dovecot 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I realize this may seem overly nostalgic, but I was wondering if anyone
> has successfully got dovecot-2.3.21.1 running on Fedora 43?

I just revived my copr with dovecot-2.3.21.1 for F43 (x86_64 and aarch64) based 
on the SRPM from koji. The only change I made was bumping the epoch to 2 so any 
F43 dovecot-2.4.x releases would not replace it. A fresh build which completed 
successfully is here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patrickl/Dovecot-2.3/

Meanwhile I switched to git HEAD with the debian config files from:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dovecot

You can find the F43 builds here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patrickl/dovecot/

> I'm about to do an upgrade to Fedora 43 and I wanted to avoid doing a
> simultaneous upgrade to Dovecot 2.4 which is now the distro packaged
> version, since I have not yet converted my configuration.

Either creating and adding your own copr with dovecot-2.3.21.1 for F43 or 
adding my copr (with sudo dnf copr enable patrickl/Dovecot-2.3 ) should result 
in dovecot-2.3.21.1 on F43 due to the higher epoch number (Epoch: 2) than the 
F43-shipped dovecot-2.4.1 RPM (Epoch: 1).

> I managed to compile from source (after taking care of adding -licuuc to
> the linker flags when linking test-fts-filter). However running test-lib
> then fails on two tests.

I have seen two tests fail with git HEAD (reported to this list) but they are 
different.

> My assumption as yet unverified is that the fedora specific patches are
> avoiding the two test errors iwhen using the unpatched source, but
> contribute to the error produced when using the patched source, though
> my test did not rule out environment differences between these two tests.

There are a lot of patches in the dovecot-2.3.21.1 SRPM. Given that Fedora is 
the upstream for RHEL (iirc via CentOS Stream) I guess they are needed for that 
Enterprise flavor :-)

Best,
Patrick
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