ossobv/dovecot-deb

(obsolete) OSSO build of Dovecot packages for Debian/Ubuntu (2.3.6)

OSSO build of dovecot 2.3.2.1

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This package is obsolete❗

Instead, see: https://repo.dovecot.org/

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Using Docker:

./Docker.build

If the build succeeds, the built Debian packages are placed inside (a subdirectory of) Docker.out/.

Manual build

You could do things manually without Docker. In that case it would look somewhat like this.

Note that you may have to peek inside the Dockerfile for some extra steps to perform.

Get source:

wget https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.1.tar.gz \
  -O dovecot_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz

tar zxf dovecot_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz

Setup debian/ dir:

cd dovecot-2.3.1
git clone https://github.com/ossobv/dovecot-deb.git debian

Optionally alter debian/changelog and then build:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa
# skip -us and -uc if you have GPG set up properly
# for *exactly* the identifier in the changelog

Changes from Ubuntu 2.2.22 build

• Assembled by:
  • taking the dovecot-ce-2.3.0 debian dir;
  • mixing it with the dovecot-2.2.22 Ubuntu/Xenial debian dir;
  • updating the pigeonhole.patch with the 0.5.0.1 source;
  • updating everything with the Debian 2.3.1-2 patches.

• Relevant changes in our case:

  • ssl_protocols had to be removed from the config (or replaced by ssl_min_protocol);
  • lmtp is now found in a separate dovecot-lmtpd package, which also had to be installed.

  See also: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.3

• Changing from 2.2.22 to 2.3.0 fixed the imap crashes in libdovecot near i_stream_seek as discussed here: https://wjd.nu/notes/2018#dovecot-roundcube-mail-read-error