Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.0 Released

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Dec 13 10:34:58 EST 2005


Simon Matter wrote:
>>I am pleased to announce the release of Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.0.  This is an
>>BETA-quality release, reflecting that it has significant numbers of new
>>features that have not been tested on a wide-scale basis, although
>>earlier versions of this code have been running at two sites for quite
>>some time.  Some of the new features include mailspool replication
>>(based on David Carter's work), "unified" Murder code, separate
>>meta-data partitions, several new IMAP and Sieve extensions, and many
>>more visible and invisible changes.
> 
> 
> While working on a first rpm release including the new replication code, a
> few things showed up:
> 
> 1) man page of make_md5 is not installed (patch attached)
> 
> 2) service name for nntp has once been changed from "news" to "nntp",
> however, it still shows up as "news" in one place. I guess it was
> forgotten. (patch attached)
> 
> 3) replication code includes com_err.h instead of et/com_err.h (patch
> attached)
> 
> 4) imap Makefile needs a fix (in my case) to build replication code (patch
> attached)

Thanks, I applied fixes to all of these.



> 5) a tool called syncnews(8) is now part of the distribution. However it
> seems quite old and doesn't build. Is it needed?

No.  I can probably remove it.

I'll wait to see if some more build issues come in, and then release 
2.3.1 near the end of the week.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University



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