Is guid_mode: sha1 really gone from imapd.conf?

ellie timoney ellie at fastmail.com
Mon Jan 16 18:13:21 EST 2017


For what it's worth, looking at commit history, it looks like it went
away sometime before 2.4.0

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 09:41 AM, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote:
> 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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