[Dovecot] Imap folders missing after updating

Dominic Marks dom at helenmarks.co.uk
Tue May 9 17:03:58 EEST 2006


Dominic Marks wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 01:40, Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote:
>>> * On 08/05/06 22:50 -0700, Fred Harris wrote:
>>> | I understand that.  It's not dovecot's fault really.
>>> | I apologize for ranting here.  I think Fedora has a few issues to
>>> work
>>> | out with this.  I think up until this point, there's been a
>>> conflict
>>> | of interest with the Redhat network and Fedora.  Redhat has
>>> almost
>>> an
>>> | incentive to introduce problems into Fedora so that people will
>>> pay
>>> | them to help them with them. Maybe it will get better now that
>>> Fedora
>>> | is more on its own.
>>>
>>> (Free|Net|Open)BSD's also exist as very stable alternatives for
>>> you,
>>> just FYI! You don't have to die with Fedora or Redhat.
>>
>> To make this relevant to the conversion, can you tell us what
>> versions of Dovecot have been included and how they handled
>> the transition from .99x to 1.x in those distros?
>
> If you are talking about the configuration file changes then this is
> the responsibility of the admin to modify. In FreeBSD at least
> upgrading required manual editing of the configuration.
>
> FreeBSD has a tool called portupgrade which can be used for automatic
> configuration. It can be configured to hold the current version of an

Sorry, I meant automatic upgrades, not configuration.

Dom

> application (called a port in FreeBSD terminology) so that a working
> system will not be broken by running a general upgrade.
>
> The current version of Dovecot in the FreeBSD ports system is 1.0 beta
> 7.
>
> http://www.freshports.org/mail/dovecot
>
> Cheers,
> Dominic
>
>> --
>>   Les Mikesell
>>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
>>
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