[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.x or 1.2, which way to go for Kolab Server?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:25 +0200, Sascha Wilde wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> thanks for the reply,
> 
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:08 +0200, Sascha Wilde wrote:
> >> was written the other day we started to use Dovecot 1.2 for our Kolab
> >> with Dovecot project, but it turned out that there are quite a bunch of
> >> issues with 1.2 (which is ok, as it hasn't even been announced as beta
> >> till now).
> >
> > I'd like to hear these issues, since I'm not aware of any v1.2-specific
> > bugs.
> 
> There was the dict-server startup problem, which we reported and which
> should be fixed now (I still need to test your fix).
> 
> Then there are some (undocumented?) changes in the dict api (and the
> changed dict backend configuration).
> 
> And then there are some more dict relates problems/changes causing the
> metadata/annotations plugin to fail in certain situations -- Bernhard
> Herzog will report/discuss them in detail soon, in case we decide to use
> 1.2. 
> 
> So the stuff we stumbled upon was all dict related till now, but on the
> other hand we haven't done much with 1.2 besides trying to get our
> changes to work with it...

OK. I think most of the issues you'll find in 1.2 are things like these.
Either something works or it doesn't (mainly because I'm so lazy at
testing changes myself), but there shouldn't be any stability-related
problems. And these "doesn't work" bugs can be fixed quickly when
they're reported.
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