On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 03:02:04 -0400, Steve wrote in message
<20250712030204.095d8fd0@???>:

> Hi all,
>
> Pin your current Dovecot 2.3.x now, and don't allow an upgrade to
> 2.4.x. Dovecot's documentation is disorganized, unhelpful,
> contradictory, and often just plain wrong. Right now the Dovecot
> project is going through problems caused by their crippling free
> software Dovecot in order to sell a commercial Dovecot with earlier
> Dovecot's features. They call 2.4.x Dovecot Community Edition. I'm
> calling it Dovecot Breaking Edition.
>
> I'm waiting to see how this all shakes out before I go to 2.4.x . It
> wouldn't surprise me a bit if 2.3.x, the last fully functional free
> software Dovecot, gets forked.
>
> If you noticed my 5 day absense, it was because an ugrade to Dovecot
> 2.4.1 made Dovecot unuseable, and Dovecot is the central component of
> my email reception system. I finally walked it back to 2.3.31 and held
> (Voidese for "pinned") it there.
>
> Yeah, I'm looking for alternative IMAP servers that store via a
> standard Maildir: Something I can plug in to directly replace Dovecot.

..dunno Dovecot storage formats, if some sorta mailbox style,
"formail -ds <old_mailbox >>new_mailbox " or a (net)cat pipe
into "formail +1 -ds procmail ", might work...
https://linux.die.net/man/1/formail

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