Steve Litt via Talk wrote on 2026-01-12 13:23:
I want to hear about this too. My entire email usage depends on Dovecot, and Dovecot 2.4.x has jumped the shark in order to offer a proprietary product not in competition with their free software
What changes are you referring to? I've just looked over this page: https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html#removed-fe... and I'm seeing some things I like, some I don't know about, some that may bite me, but nothing about removing features that I use. Global ACLs are a PITA, and they're changing how to implement ACLs, so the ability isn't gone, just different. IMAP SETQUOTA is going away, but user_db / pass_db (userdb_quota_rule=) is where I set those anyway. Don't think it'll affect me? The "Backends and Plugins" section will require careful parsing at some point.