Re: Request for official Dovecot 2.4 RPMs for Amazon Linux 2023

> On 14/08/2026 02:04 EEST Yashar Fakhari via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello Dovecot team,
> Would you consider providing official Dovecot 2.4 RPMs for Amazon Linux 2023 on both x86_64 and aarch64?
> I needed Dovecot 2.4 for FTS Flatcurve because Amazon Linux 2023 currently provides Dovecot 2.3 without a Flatcurve package, while the standalone Flatcurve project for 2.3 is EOL and development has moved into Dovecot core.
> I have developed a working experimental build process, and I hope the lessons from it could help make Amazon Linux 2023 easier to add to your release workflow:
> The entire build runs through GitHub Actions using Amazon Linux 2023 containers. GitHub repo: https://github.com/YasharF/dovecot.2.4.ALinux2023
> Workflow files .github/workflow:- watch.yml monitors Dovecot's RPM repository for new releases.- build.yml, using build/build.sh, rebuilds the RPMs for both architectures with two documented spec adjustments.- verify.yml runs basic verification tests.- publish.yml publishes verified artifacts as a DNF-compatible repository.
> I am currently using the resulting RPMs in production. This project is intended only as a temporary bridge until AWS or Dovecot provides official packages.
> Official, continuously updated Dovecot packages would remain valuable even if AWS later adopts a newer release. As a distribution, AWS/Amazon Linux may freeze the packaged version and provide primarily security fixes rather than each subsequent Dovecot feature and bug-fix release.
> Thank you for considering this. Let me know if I can contribute in any other way for this.
> Best regards,
> Yashar Fakharihttps://github.com/YasharFhttps://linkedin.com/in/YasharF
>    Hello Dovecot team,
>    Would you consider providing official Dovecot 2.4 RPMs for Amazon Linux
>    2023 on both x86_64 and aarch64?
>    I needed Dovecot 2.4 for FTS Flatcurve because Amazon Linux 2023 currently
>    provides Dovecot 2.3 without a Flatcurve package, while the standalone
>    Flatcurve project for 2.3 is EOL and development has moved into Dovecot
>    core.
>    I have developed a working experimental build process, and I hope the
>    lessons from it could help make Amazon Linux 2023 easier to add to your
>    release workflow:
>    The entire build runs through GitHub Actions using Amazon Linux 2023
>    containers. GitHub repo: https://github.com/YasharF/dovecot.2.4.ALinux2023
>    Workflow files .github/workflow:
>    - watch.yml monitors Dovecot's RPM repository for new releases.
>    - build.yml, using build/build.sh, rebuilds the RPMs for both
>    architectures with two documented spec adjustments.
>    - verify.yml runs basic verification tests.
>    - publish.yml publishes verified artifacts as a DNF-compatible repository.
>    I am currently using the resulting RPMs in production. This project is
>    intended only as a temporary bridge until AWS or Dovecot provides official
>    packages.
>    Official, continuously updated Dovecot packages would remain valuable even
>    if AWS later adopts a newer release. As a distribution, AWS/Amazon Linux
>    may freeze the packaged version and provide primarily security fixes
>    rather than each subsequent Dovecot feature and bug-fix release.
>    Thank you for considering this. Let me know if I can contribute in any
>    other way for this.
>    Best regards,
>    Yashar Fakhari
>    https://github.com/YasharF
>    https://linkedin.com/in/YasharF

Hi!

We will take your request under consideration. In the mean while I would like to point out that we have both AMD64 and AARCH64 docker images for dovecot in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot

Aki

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