Re: Help Translating Dovecot 2.3 Proxy Configuration to 2.4

On Wed, 28 May 2025, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

There is no reason why anyone should go through a 'special download process' to open a .tar.gz, or no? I suppose you just need to fix whatever is wrong with the file.

This issue bites me often. There's nothing wrong with the archive -- the original URL you used

https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz

is not interpreted by Github as an archive file, but a page describing the content. If you use a browser to extract the raw download link

https://github.com/dovecot/tools/raw/refs/heads/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar.gz

wget can work with that. It worked for me, at least.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>