[Dovecot] Upgrade from 0.99.x to 1.1.x

[Karl Latiss]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:32 +0200, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> 
> > Do I understand it correctly that when directly upgrading from
> > 0.99 to 1.1, Dovecot does the subscriptions renaming but not the
> > keywords renaming and conversion, but that when I manually rename
> > all .customflags files to dovecot-keywords, it does the format
> > conversion of that file automatically?
> 
> Yes, that is correct. I did this same conversion about a year ago:
> 
>  http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-March/029325.html
> 
> > Is there anything else what's important to note for such an upgrade?
> 
> I do not remember any big problems with the conversion. However, lots of
> small problems with Dovecot just disappeared when getting rid of 0.99 ...
> 
For what it's worth I am gradually moving users from an old 0.99 install
to a new 1.1 install and there have been no problems as long as the
subscriptions file is renamed.

We deleted the other superseded files as they weren't required in our
case.

Karl.