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Bug 479664 - net-mail/dbmail-3.1.2 released
Summary: net-mail/dbmail-3.1.2 released
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Thomas Raschbacher
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Reported: 2013-08-03 20:39 UTC by Thomas Raschbacher
Modified: 2013-08-12 19:54 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Raschbacher gentoo-dev 2013-08-03 20:39:54 UTC
new version.

http://git.dbmail.eu/paul/dbmail/log/

mostly bugfixes, config file change and some imap additions
Comment 1 Thomas Raschbacher gentoo-dev 2013-08-12 18:55:30 UTC
"ChangeLog" copy from the mailinglist:

3.1.0 (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dbmail/14865):

New parameters in dbmail.conf
-----------------------------

dburi = sqlite:///home/paul/dbmail.db

DBMail now supports the full capabilities of libzdb by allowing you to
specify the database URI yourself. This gives you full power to tweak
the connection to your liking. See this URL for more information:

http://www.tildeslash.com/libzdb/api-docs/ConnectionPool_8h.html

backlog = 128

The maximum number of waiting TCP connections in the kernel have been
raised to 128 by default, to allow better handling of spikes in the
connection load to slower, blocking daemons like lmtpd. If you see
deferred messages piling up in your MTA, this is what you should look
at. Also, in case of deferred messages, you should consider switching
dbmail-lmtpd from running as a stand-alone (single-threaded) daemon to
running in inetd mode.

Schema change
-------------

There is one small schema change that you want to apply if you upgrade
from 3.0.2 to 3.1.0. You will find it in the schema directories. For
example sql/mysql/3_0_2-3_1_0.mysql.

Without this change, dbmail-imapd will work just fine, except that
SORT will be broken. This mostly affects Roundcube users, so if you
use that client, you will definitely want to apply the change. It is a
small and fast change (re-create a view) that won't cause you any
additional downtime.

Memory usage
------------

Memory fragmentation and leakage was a problem in imapd, but appears
to be under control now. Both virtual and resident memory should show
pretty much flat-lined graphs.

A lot of effort was spent on reducing the memory footprint of
especially the IMAP server. A whole new memory allocation scheme was
introduced (src/mpool) that optionally uses segmented memory arenas,
commonly known as memory pools. Although the use of actual pools is
disabled by default, phasing in the programming interface enforced a
full audit of memory allocation. Except for the GMime code, the new
interface was used as much as possible, or heap allocation was
replaced by automatic stack allocation. GMime uses the g-slice
allocator which doesn't appear to cause problems anymore now that
GObject reference counting was also audited and cleaned up.

An additional new allocation feature is support for jemalloc, a fast
allocator used by some of the big players like facebook and google.
Before using jemalloc however, it good to know that updating to a
recent linux kernel (> 3.6) also appears to improve allocation quite
significantly, by reducing memory fragmentation. For non-linux users,
ymmv, but I'm sure other users will be interested to know how BSD and
OpenSolaris users fare.

IMAPD improvements
------------------

Using Dovecot's excellent imap test tools, compliance was improved
overall. No additional IMAP capabilities were added in this release.
Performance was improved by identifying some of codepaths that led to
excessive memory allocation or querying of the database.

LMTPD improvements
------------------

Some of the same performance bottlenecks that plagued IMAPD have also
been resolved in LMTPD. Message insertion is now at least twice as
fast, and scales better when injecting messages into large mailboxes.

DELIVER, POP3D and TIMSIEVED
----------------------------

Nothing really changed, except for internal code-changes part of the
memory audit. Of course, dbmail-deliver also benefits from the
delivery improvement done for lmtpd.

3.1.1:

It is a bug-fix only release. It fixes some issues with IMAP returning
a 'BAD invalid sequence' response, when it really shouldn't.

DBMail 3.1.2:

This is a bug-fix only release. So no new features or schema-changes.

Bugs fixed:

- - POP3: Incorrect display of encoded messages in POP3
- - LMTP: Incorrect acknowledgement of recipients in LMTP, which led to
deferred messages in the MTA queue.
- - IMAP: Fixes the "BAD invalid sequence" response after IMAP UID commands.
Comment 2 Thomas Raschbacher gentoo-dev 2013-08-12 19:54:22 UTC
Additional note: python files have been removed.

3.1.2 in portage.