Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-04-04 Thread Frank Cusack
On April 4, 2007 6:35:27 PM -0700 Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're still working on debugging why our Kerberos setup isn't working-- Thanks to Timo we have auth_gssapi_hostname, but we're still not quite there... our Kerberos engineers are looking into it. There was a recent thread on

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 30 Mar 2007 at 06:07PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz.sig > > Probably one more RC after this. Hey all-- for those interested in deploying 1.0rc29, I just wanted to report that I deployed 1.0

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-04-02 Thread Yu Chen
I really have to agree with Kenneth here. Specially after comments are made that the program has likely very few more bug fixes needed before going gold.. Adding new features, specially if they require any changes to the config file, makes little sense. Right! I was tracking the RC branches fo

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-04-02 Thread Jay Chandler
Francisco Reyes wrote: I really have to agree with Kenneth here. Specially after comments are made that the program has likely very few more bug fixes needed before going gold.. Adding new features, specially if they require any changes to the config file, makes little sense. Right! I was t

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Bill Cole
At 8:32 AM -0400 3/31/07, Jeff A. Earickson wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote: FWIW, in my experience, all 1.0 software is utter shit and should be avoided like the plague if stability is a requirement. So 0.99, 1.0, etc is all meaningless to me. 1.0 = shit is almost always true

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Tomi Hakala
Jeff A. Earickson wrote: My one concern about dovecot is the "feeping creaturism" in the code. Why does it have to be an LDA? That is what procmail is for. And designing your own mailbox format (dbox?) seems dangerous too. Both features were done for paying customer. Dovecot LDA is lot more

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:32:40AM -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > My one concern about dovecot is the "feeping creaturism" in the code. > Why does it have to be an LDA? That is what procmail is for. And > designing your own mailbox format (dbox?) seems dangerous too. I would > have it stick t

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Dean Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to agree with you on this. I'm relatively new with Dovecot and > have been evaluating it for deployment in a production environment. I > must say that Dovecot has the most unusual development method of a > large-scale project I've seen. > > There

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:30PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> HI Timo, >> you added the wiki in txt format to the docs dir, >> this again brokes my suse spec *g > > What annoys me more (as dovecot maintainer for pkgsrc) is that the example > co

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Gerard
On Saturday March 31, 2007 at 08:32:40 (AM) Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > My one concern about dovecot is the "feeping creaturism" in the code. > Why does it have to be an LDA? That is what procmail is for. And designing > your own mailbox format (dbox?) seems dangerous too. I would have it > stic

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Jeff A. Earickson
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Frank Cusack wrote: FWIW, in my experience, all 1.0 software is utter shit and should be avoided like the plague if stability is a requirement. So 0.99, 1.0, etc is all meaningless to me. 1.0 = shit is almost always true for payware IMHO. Open source has a far better tr

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-31 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:32 AM +0200 John and Catherine Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - "mind share in the boardroom" is not the only possible goal for a project I was thinking of installed base, not commercial users per se.

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread John and Catherine Allen
Kenneth Porter wrote: > That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a version number that gives business people the confidence to inst

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Morrison
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:04:58 -0700 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win > any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get > proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a versio

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Aria Stewart
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:05 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24 PM -0700 Frank Cusack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This is why I'm still using 0.99. The RC's still look like betas and I > >> have no idea which one (if any) is less a regression than any other. >

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2007 Mar 30 (Fri) at 20:56:43 -0700 (-0700), Kenneth Porter wrote: :--On Friday, March 30, 2007 8:26 PM -0700 Peter Hessler :<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : :>This sort of decision is exactly why I'm the mail admin and they are :>not. They know things at the boardroom level, and they are :>(presu

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 8:26 PM -0700 Peter Hessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This sort of decision is exactly why I'm the mail admin and they are not. They know things at the boardroom level, and they are (presumably) good at it. I don't look at things from the boardroom level. However

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2007 Mar 30 (Fri) at 17:04:58 -0700 (-0700), Kenneth Porter wrote: :That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win :any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get :proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a version number :

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a version number that gives business people the

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Dean Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have to agree with you on this. I'm relatively new with Dovecot and have been evaluating it for deployment in a production environment. I must say that Dovecot has the most unusual development method of a large-scale project I've seen. I've seen abo

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 5:22 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please don't mistake my email for any involvement with dovecot development. AFAIK, Timo is the one and only developer. That's sure to win over your board and boards worldwide. If you mean a single developer mig

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 30, 2007 5:04:58 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Friday, March 30, 2007 4:52 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's very easy. In the dovecot world, "rc" means "development version". Or are you too stupid and ignorant to learn how the versioning

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 4:52 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's very easy. In the dovecot world, "rc" means "development version". Or are you too stupid and ignorant to learn how the versioning works for dovecot. (Sorry, that's directed to another dovecot thread; I'm no

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 4:41 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are going to have to do the exact same testing from 0.99->1.0 as you would from 0.99->1.0rc29. Caveat emptor with open source software; the responsibility is upon YOU to do your own testing. Actually, no. A

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 30, 2007 7:31:15 PM -0400 Dean Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > A few new small features and lots of index/mbox fixes. I've been > heavily stress testing this release, so I think it should be about > perfect. :) *Featu

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 30, 2007 4:05:55 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is why I'm still using 0.99. The RC's still look like betas and I have no idea which one (if any) is less a regression than any oth

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Dean Brooks
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >A few new small features and lots of index/mbox fixes. I've been heavily > >stress testing this release, so I think it should be about perfect. :) > > *Features*?! In an rc?! No wonder there's no convergence. > > [snip] > > So pl

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is why I'm still using 0.99. The RC's still look like betas and I have no idea which one (if any) is less a regression than any other. They ARE betas. That's no reason to stay with 0.99. It's effectively

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 30, 2007 2:02:09 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Friday, March 30, 2007 6:34 PM +0200 Nicolas STRANSKY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Changes will be certainly minimal after v1.0 final release, you can't blame Timo for trying to make something more and more usable a

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Morrison
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:02:09 -0700 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why I'm still using 0.99. Which Timo describes as being so old as to be effectively a different program.. -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling w

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 30, 2007 6:34 PM +0200 Nicolas STRANSKY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Changes will be certainly minimal after v1.0 final release, you can't blame Timo for trying to make something more and more usable and adapted to everybody's needs while v1.0 is still in development.. "Relea

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:35:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I hate how badly the configuration file updating works everywhere (well, > or at least in Debian). If the changes don't really change any existing > settings and won't conflict with the modified parts of the config file, > there's

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:35:09PM -0400, John Peacock wrote: > What part of "Release Candidate" isn't clear here... ;-) "release candidate" equals "latest supported release" in this case as well. If they were 2.0 rc's, I'd continue running the latest 1.whatever release until done. Geert

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 30.3.2007, at 19.23, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:30PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: HI Timo, you added the wiki in txt format to the docs dir, this again brokes my suse spec *g What annoys me more (as dovecot maintainer for pkgsrc) is that the example config fi

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread John Peacock
Geert Hendrickx wrote: What annoys me more (as dovecot maintainer for pkgsrc) is that the example config file changes with (almost) every release. The changes are mostly just in comments, but it makes users have to merge their configuration on every update. What part of "Release Candidate" isn

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Nicolas STRANSKY
Le 30.03.2007 18:23, Geert Hendrickx a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:30PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> HI Timo, >> you added the wiki in txt format to the docs dir, >> this again brokes my suse spec *g > > What annoys me more (as dovecot maintainer for pkgsrc) is that the example >

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:30PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > HI Timo, > you added the wiki in txt format to the docs dir, > this again brokes my suse spec *g What annoys me more (as dovecot maintainer for pkgsrc) is that the example config file changes with (almost) every release. The cha

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Sirainen schrieb: > http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz.sig > > Probably one more RC after this. > > * Security fix: If zlib plugin was loaded, it was possible to open >

[Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

2007-03-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc29.tar.gz.sig Probably one more RC after this. * Security fix: If zlib plugin was loaded, it was possible to open gzipped mbox files outside the user's mail directory. + Added