Is guid_mode: sha1 really gone from imapd.conf?

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 16 17:41:36 EST 2017


Yep, it's gone away - sha1 is the only mode right now.  We're going to want to look at blake2 soon though I reckon.

Bron.

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, at 03:48, Andy Dorman via Info-cyrus wrote:
> So the subject is the question...
> 
> Running cyr_info conf-lint against our imapd.conf indicates "guid_mode" 
> is gone and indeed, the imapd.conf man page doesn't mention it now.
> 
> But many older versions of the man page do mention it and I can not find 
> any mention in past release notes at
> 
> http://www.cyrusimap.org/dev/imap/download/release-notes/index.html
> 
> of it being deprecated or removed.
> 
> So is it really gone or could it have been accidentally left out of the 
> man page and conf-lint check code? I agree that is very unlikely, but 
> with all the massive amount of excellent work that has been done by the 
> Cyrus team in the last few years, sometimes a small thing like this can 
> fall through a crack.
> 
> Hopefully it will be OK just to remove the "guid_mode" sha1" line and 
> restart and nothing will explode?
> 
> Thanks and my apologies if the above is a really dumb question.
> 
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