Re: Migration murder from 3.2 to 3.10 (Debian 11 to 13) – frontend to backend auth error

Jean Charles Delépine via Info <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:05:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <20260227120529.Horde.oj1fr8l5qZccE0L5yt6GOuL@webmail.u-picardie.fr>
Quoting Frank Richter <[email protected]>:

> Hello Дилян,
> thanks!
>> upstream cyrus-sasl has removed support for DIGEST-MD5  
>> —https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/pull/773 . Sooner or later  
>> you will have to say Good bye to DIGEST-MD5, too.
>
> Ok, thanks. IMHO it was a "cheap" auth method for this usage  
> (frontend to backend auth). I switched now to PLAIN+TLS with  
> saslauthd -> pam -> pam_userdb at the backends. What do other murder  
> admins do? Are there any …?

There are some. ;-)

PLAIN+TLS here.
Switched from MD5 with the upgrade to version 3.8, if I recall correctly.

>> Migration to Cyrus IMAP 3.10 requires running version 3.6.3 (or  
>> later), or 3.8.1 (or later)  
>> —https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.10/imap/download/upgrade.html#versions-to-upgrade-from  
>> .
>
> Oh. I hoped to migrate all the mailboxes with XFER from 3.2.11  
> backends to the new 3.10, and finally upgrade the mupdate master  
> and frontends, according to
>
> https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.10/imap/download/upgrade.html#special-note-for-murder-configurations

I've done
  early => 2.5 with xfer
  2.5 => 3.2 vith sync_client
  3.2 => 3.8 vith sync_client

Upgarde to 3.10 or 12 will certainly be done same way.

           Jean Chales Delépine
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