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1 happens too often: mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 138 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset)
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3 line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK)
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4 #5 0x0806faa3 in mbox_lock (ibox=0x80d89b8, lock_type=1, lock_id_r=0xbea6b434) at mbox-lock.c:493
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5 #6 0x08075439 in mbox_sync (ibox=0x80d89b8, flags=MBOX_SYNC_REWRITE) at mbox-sync.c:1286
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6 #7 0x0806d38b in mbox_storage_close (box=0x80d89b8) at mbox-storage.c:793
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7 #8 0x0809666e in mailbox_close (box=0x80d89b8) at mail-storage.c:296
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8 #9 0x080587b6 in client_destroy (client=0x80cefe0) at client.c:69
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9 #10 0x080591c3 in client_output (context=0x80cefe0) at client.c:386
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10 #11 0x080b0086 in stream_send_io (context=0x80cf0a8) at ostream-file.c:339
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12 mail-index-transaction.c: line 467 (mail_index_transaction_add_last):
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13 assertion failed:(idx == size || data[idx].uid1 <= update.uid1)
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15 - keywords:
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16 - add some limits to how many there can be
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17 - don't return \* in PERMANENTFLAGS when we're full
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18 - send FLAGS/PERMANENTFLAGS untagged replies when they change
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19 - sync to mbox/maildir
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20 - remove unused keywords?
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21
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22 - caching
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23 - size.physical isn't cached
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24 - force bits should be used only for nonregistered fields
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25 - change envelope parsing not to use get_headers() so imap.envelope can
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26 actually be cached without all the headers..
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27 - compression should drop fields with last_used <
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28 (latest_mail_index_date - month)
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29 - when parsing mbox or saving message, parse the mail through index-mail
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30 so things gets saved into cache immediately
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31 - we can mail_cache_add() same header multiple times..
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32 - get_field() doesn't work if it's not already cached
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33 - we could try compressing same field values into a single
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34 location in cache file.
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35 - Most messages are text/plain/7bit/us-ascii/no-other-content-type-params.
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36 Instead of saving tons of nearly identical BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE fields
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37 into cache, we could just set INDEX_MAIL_FLAG_TEXT_PLAIN_7BIT_ASCII bit
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38 on and generate the bodystructure for such messages on the fly.
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39 - support caching allmessage headers. this could be useful when
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40 indexes are in local disk but actual mails are accessed through NFS.
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42 - mbox
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43 - syncing existing indexes takes 4x longer than creating new one, why?
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44 - how well does dirty sync + status work? it reads the last mail every
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45 time? not very good..
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46 - mbox file offsets still aren't 64bit aligned for some reason..
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47 - when we're updating flags with lazy writing, we're still parsing the
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48 mbox, just not writing to it!
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49 - always add empty line. make the parser require it too? syncing should
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50 make sure there always exists two LFs at end of file. raw-mbox-stream
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51 should make sure the last message ends with LF even if it doesn't exist
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52 in the file
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53 -
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54 if (sync_ctx.seen_first_mail &&
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55 sync_ctx.base_uid_last != sync_ctx.next_uid-1 &&
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56 ret == 0 && !sync_ctx.delay_writes) {
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57 ^ doesn't work correctly with partial syncing?
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58 - COPY doesn't work to itself (lock assert crash)
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59 - Create UW-IMAP like "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE" message when mbox
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60 gets empty
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61 - keep mbox lock for two extra seconds after sync
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62 - move /var/mail/user to ~/mbox if ~/mbox exists.. supposedly this
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63 could be useful if /var/mail doesn't have quota, but ~/mail does.
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64 now, what do we then do if we can move only some of the mails?..
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65 - if we can't create dotlock file for mbox, make sure it still can be
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66 selected in read-only state
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68 - maildir
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69 - if indexes exist but dovecot-uidlist doesn't, it's not tried to be
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70 recreated
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71 - hardlink copying doesn't update indexes
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72 - rename foo foo.xyz -> infinite loop possible?
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73 - we probably shouldn't do duplicate detection/fixing?.. or at least stat()
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74 the old file before trying, because we might have just previously seen
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75 the old file and then new file and then we try to fix it..
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76 - if .customflags is removed and Maildir files have custom flags, add
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77 "unknown1" "unknown2" etc. flags to .customflags file for each found flag
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79 - index
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80 - if uoff_t or time_t size changes, don't rebuild indexes because they
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81 don't use them. just rebuild cache file.
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82 - flag merging code is too complex in index syncing. it should be moved
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83 into mbox/maildir syncing where they're combined
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84 - mail_index_lookup_ext() doesn't handle resizes between views. probably
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85 needs size_t *size_r parameter added..
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86 - optimize initial left_idx in mail_index_lookup_uid_range()
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87 - when referencing log files, open them immediately?
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88 - if log file is lost, generate it from old and new index
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89 - make sure when changing flags multiple times in transaction it goes ok.
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90 especially replace + dirty flag
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91 - transaction log: when replacing log with a same sequence, we remove it
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92 from log's file list, but we don't do anything to existing log views.
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93 this can crash later in mail_transaction_log_view_set() because 'first'
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94 is from log list, while we're comparing it into view->tail which it never
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95 is. also overwriting it leaks memory..
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96 - read-only support for mailboxes where we don't have write-access
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97 - when mailbox is deleted/renamed and someone else had it open, we get
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98 stat() error messages in log file.
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99 - sort: we could create alternative indexes for different sort conditions.
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100 sort code itself already supports this optimization.
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102 - lib-storage
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103 - index_removal_timeout gets leaked in some conditions. how?
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104 - subscribe: IMAP(anonymous): open(anonymous/mail/.temp...) failed: Permission denied
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105 - subscriptions file should contain namespace prefixes. at least optionally.
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106 there's the subscriptions = yes setting now for namespaces.. do it so that
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107 if prefix = "" has subscriptions, it contains prefixes. otherwise not.
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108 - support zlib compressed mbox/maildir? mbox maybe just read-only.
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109 do it through istream-zlib wrapper
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110 - should we allow following symlinks in mbox/maildirs? they are now.
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111 - if we implement shared mailboxes with shared indexes, never do that or
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112 others could symlink your personal mailboxes and see the indexes
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113 created for it which may contain envelope etc. data
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114 - this allows circular mailbox hierarchies which should be prevented by
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115 eg. allowing max. 20 hierarchies.
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116 - limit folder hierarchy levels? user can now create eg. a/a/a/a/...
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117 and then start renaming them from end to beginning, which probably will
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118 at some point start causing syscall failures which will fill up logs.
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119
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120 - login
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121 - Digest-MD5: support integrity protection, and maybe crypting. Do it
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122 through login process like SSL is done?
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123 - x login foo bar
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124 x NO Authentication failed.
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125 x login cras pass
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126 * BYE Disconnected for inactivity.
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127 ^ but it's not disconnecting! (buggy dovecot-auth not replying)
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128 - imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Authentication failed:
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129 Authentication server isn't connected, try again later.. [127.0.0.1]
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130 ^ NO Authentication failed. (should be Temporary login failure!)
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131 - if auth process dies, login process should retry authentication if
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132 possible. or if not, disconnect the client so it doesn't think the auth
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133 failed.
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134 - send client IP immediately after accept() to master process. make sure
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135 master shows the IP if login dies unexpectedly. master should probably
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136 also kill the login process if it doesn't kill itself soon enough.. or
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137 maybe just log the IP immediately.
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139 - auth
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140 - APOP is broken?
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141 - support specifying hex/base64 encoding in password scheme. for example
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142 {plain-md5.base64}
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143 - auth protocol: make sure values can't have tabs/lfs
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144 - auth cache: cache userdb data too.
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145 - remove system_user and allow returning multiple gids instead.
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146 - SIGHUP restarts auth processes .. but does it wait until they've finished
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147 with all requests? no.
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155 read-access to mails so mails could be read relatively safely with
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156 untrusted computers. Maybe always send [ALERT] about the previous
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164 - SIGHUP rather shouldn't restart listening sockets if they didn't change..
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167 - support Maildir++ quota
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168 - if dovecot-uidlist can't be written, assume the new mails have UIDs
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169 beginning from uidlist.next_uid. Whenever mails are expunged, overwrite
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170 the next_uid field with the current highest next_uid. Whenever we have
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171 assumed UIDs and uidlist gets updated, throw the client out with
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172 "inconsist mailbox".
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173 - make sure all syscalls check for ENOSPACE (and ENOACCESS while at it)
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176 - add setting: ssl_options = bitmask. by default we enable all openssl
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177 workarounds, this could be used to disable some of them
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178 - open("/var/run/dovecot//ssl-parameters.dat", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) =-1 ENOENT
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179 ^ loops forever
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181 - OpenSSL: support generated DH parameters
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183 from user at runtime (dovecot startssl or something). currently it just
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184 hangs.
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187 - message header search: we should ignore LWSP between two MIME blocks
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188 - message_body_search() could accept multiple search keywords so we
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189 wouldn't need to call it separately for each one (so we wouldn't need
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190 to parse the message multiple times).
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191 - message_body_search() could support NULL MessagePart and the searching
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192 could be done while parsing the message. this would need changes to
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193 message_parse() as well.
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194 - could optionally support scanning inside file attachments and use
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195 plugins to extract text out of them (word, excel, pdf, etc. etc.)
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196 - use a trie index for fast text searching, like cyrus squat?
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197 - Create our own extension: When searching with TEXT/BODY, return
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198 the message text surrounding the keywords just like web search engines
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199 do. like: SEARCH X-PRINT-MATCHES TEXT "hello" -> * SEARCH 1 "He said:
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200 Hello world!" 2 "Hello, I'm ...". This would be especially useful with
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201 the above attachment scanning.
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204 - file cache: last block in file isn't cached.
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205 - ioloop-kqueue.c patch
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206 - dotlocking: stale_timeout should probably take into account how old the
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207 file is.. so uses more time with more recent locks..
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210 - utf8_toupper() is a must. and a bit difficult if we want to do it right.
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211 - add support for other things than iconv() as well? we could reuse
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212 the code from cyrus or courier
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213 - cache iconvs? they'd probably be faster if we just reset the
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214 conversion instead of opening new one every time. and there will likely
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215 be only one or two charsets which are used for nearly all conversions.
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217 - general
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218 - sieve (rfc3028), we can use Cyrus Sieve
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219 - rfc2231 continuation support (useless?)
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220 - rfc2557 support for BODYSTRUCTURE, as specified by RFC3501
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221 - lmtp server - is it needed? dovecot-deliver binary at least would be
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223 - create indexer binary
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224 - ~/.dovecotrc to override system wide settings. namespace settings should
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225 override all the previous namespace settings instead of adding new.
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226 - ESTALE handling for NFS safety
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227 - option to disable SORT, SEARCH and other memory/cpu-intensive features.
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228 defaults and per-user by dovecot-auth.
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229 - dotlock overriding is racy, but it's pretty difficult to fix it. Also
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230 overriding someone else's dotlock in shared folder isn't possible. These
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231 could be fixed by having separate lock process running as root, which
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232 would chown() the file for another uid and then unlink() it as that user.
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233 One problem with that is that if malicious user sets setuid+execute bits
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234 on for the file, he could run the file and get changed to the new uid.
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235 That hopefully shouldn't matter much since the new uid should be user
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236 with minimum possible privileges. Anyway, optional..
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237 - things break if next_uid gets to 2^32
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239 capabilities:
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240 - preferrably all should be possible to #ifdef away by a configure
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241 option (--without-capabilities=acl,namespace,...)
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242 - possibility to disable them from config file
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243 - THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT - although pretty useless I'd think.
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244 - acl (rfc2086, draft-ietf-imapext-acl), namespace (rfc2342)
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245 - probably do it like cyrus. "user.<username>" to access other
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246 users, with "" defaulting to "user.<myself>". these should be
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247 configurable however.
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248 - shared namespaces? maybe configurable in config file
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249 - easiest way to do ACL would be to use unix modes, but is that
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250 useful at all? Well, ACL2 has a bit better support for that, so
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251 maybe we could support it.
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252 - otherwise gets a bit trickly, we could keep all mail in "imapmail"
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253 group and 0600/0700 mode by default, but when mail is shared to others,
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254 the group read/write access bits would be set. or alternatively we
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255 could launch another imap process to handle it, which we should support
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256 anyway. ACLs could be stored into ".acl" ascii file in each folder.
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257 - support for private and shared flags, configurable by mailbox admin.
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258 this isn't in any draft yet, but ACL2 author was going to create one.
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259 [SHAREDFLAGS (...)] would specify which ones are shared, don't know yet
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260 how they would be configured.
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261 - quota (rfc2087, draft-cridland-imap-quota)
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262 - give filesystem values only to admins
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263 - support for Maildir++, probably no need to support more.
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264 quota capability supports complex quota configuration, but if
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265 no mailer supports them we probably shouldn't bother either
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266 - id (rfc2971)
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267 - must be configurable what gets sent, default to only name=Dovecot
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268 - separate pre/post-login settings
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269 - optionally log configured parts of the client information, but only
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270 once, probably at the same time as logging "Logged in",
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271 "Disconnected", etc.
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272 - remember to force truncating values longer than 30 chars,
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273 especially before logging
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274 - mailbox-referrals (rfc2193)
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275 - this is useful whenever we would otherwise need to make the
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276 connection ourself. for example load balancing and shared mailboxes
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277 requiring another UID to run.
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278 - this rfc defines no exact way for server to detect if client
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279 supports referrals or not. I don't think there's much point in
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280 supporting only referrals, as most clients don't support them.
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281 Instead we should return referrals when we know that client
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282 supports them, otherwise do the connecting ourself. If client
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283 issues RLIST or RLSUB command, it's safe to assume it supports
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284 referrals.
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285 - for load balancing this works just fine, but what about shared
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286 mailboxes which require different UID? If we login with our own
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287 username, we end up with our own UID instead of what we wanted.
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288 IMAP URLs don't support separated authorization id which would
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289 have made this very easy.. We could give the "userid@group" as
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290 userid, but clients probably treat it as different userid and
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291 ask the password again.
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292 - problems, problems, .. maybe not worth the trouble.
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293 - drafts:
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294 - http://www.imc.org/ids.html
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295 - annotate (draft-ietf-imapext-annotate)
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296 - per-message annotations. this will be major change. especially
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297 because currently there's no suitable storage for them, and
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298 they'll probably change all the time.. maybe if we moved into
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299 berkeley db to store the .data file and these annotations.
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300 - this is separate problem from index files. indexes are treated as
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301 temporary files, annotations are permanent data. we'd have to
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302 support non-db way to do this too, which would probably be just a
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303 simple (slow) text file.
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304 - annotatemore (draft-daboo-imap-annotatemore)
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305 - server and per-mailbox annotations. much easier than
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306 per-message annotations, but they'd be easier to place into
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307 db as well.
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308 - binary (draft-nerenberg-imap-binary)
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309 - perhaps not too useful. I'd like to make Dovecot fully
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310 binary-safe though.
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311 - view (draft-ietf-imapext-view)
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312 - slow, complex, luckily draft expired almost two years ago.
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313 i hope i don't have to implement this :)
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314 - can be done client-side just fine (evolution's virtual folders)