Cyrus IMAP 3.0.0 beta2 Release Notes

Warning

Cyrus IMAP 3.0 is under active development, and subject to change.

Do NOT use this version unless you're a developer of sorts.

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Major changes since the 2.5.x series

  • Support added for FastMail-style conversations (threaded messages). (See the conversations options in imapd.conf)

  • Optional Xapian integration for faster and shinier search. Note that this requires custom patches to Xapian, in this release. (See the search_engine option in imapd.conf, and doc/README.xapian in the source distribution.))

  • Archive support has arrived! Requires addition of an archive partition. (See archive_* options in imapd.conf)

  • Basic JMAP support. (See httpmodules in imapd.conf)

  • Optional ClamAV integration for AntiVirus support is now working again. Requires separate installation of ClamAV. (See configure.ac --with-clamav=DIR)

  • Dropped support for Berkeley DB.

  • The handling of configure options has changed, dropping support for --with-cyrus-prefix and --with-service-path in favour of the more conventional --prefix, --bindir, --sbindir, and --libexecdir.

  • Binaries executed by the master(8) service process are now installed to --libexecdir. Other binaries are installed to --bindir and/or --sbindir.

    The make installbinsymlinks target can be used to set up symlinks to everything in --bindir, if you need that in your environment.

  • Added support for replicating mailboxes/users to a particular partition. sync_client now accepts a -p option.

  • The defaultdomain setting in imapd.conf now defaults to "internal" (was: NULL)

  • Added experimental backup service. See docs/install-backup.html in the source distribution for preliminary installation/configuration/administration documentation.

  • Support for Apple's Push service (XAPPLEPUSH). See Cyrus Eventsource

  • Sieve now supports special use folders. See Cyrus Sieve

  • New numeric header available for sorting: X-Spam-Score

  • Added IMIP notification support to notifyd(8). See imipnotifier in imapd.conf

  • Optimised CRC32 implementation

  • Added support for reverse ACLs, enabling faster LIST response. See reverseacls in imapd.conf

  • Added cross-domain sharing support. See crossdomains and crossdomains_onlyother in imapd.conf

  • Added experimental object storage for mail data, with preliminary support for OpenIO and Caringo backends. See configure.ac --enable-objectstore, and the object_storage_*, openio_* and caringo_* options in imapd.conf.

  • Configurable POP3 UIDL format for compatibility with other mail servers. Supports Courier Mail Server and Dovecot formats, in addition to Cyrus formats. See uidl_format in imapd.conf

  • Sieve now supports the RFC 5490 Checking Mailbox Status and Accessing Mailbox Metadata extensions. See sieve_extensions in imapd.conf

  • Under delete_mode: delayed, only the 20 most recently deleted mailboxes are kept for any given name.

Significant bugfixes

  • Lots of fixes to caldav and carddav.

    Includes the addition of a new daemon (calalarmd) which periodically processes a global database containing the "next" alarm for each item, and sends the relevant mboxevents. (See configure.ac --with-calalarmd)

  • Replication reliability fixes.

  • Improved LIST-EXTENDED: more imap tests now succeed.

  • Extensive cleanup of mailbox name handling

  • master now requests a sane maximum number of open file descriptors, and only complains if this isn't allowed.

  • Fixes to compiling on Solaris (thanks Jens Erat, Marty Lee)

  • Improved handling of mailbox renames during replication