[Dovecot] Issue with converting users from cyrus user.domain.com

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:47:22AM -0600, Preston Lord wrote:

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> dovecot --version
> 1.0.15

Hmmm. The newest avaliable packaged version to etch seems to be 1.0.15,
that's from backports [1], it seems. The standard etch package is
1.0.rc15 [2]

Even Lenny (stable by now) has 1.0.15 as default [3].

If you go to squeeze (aka "testing"), you'd get 1.1.13 [4].

So even upgrading to lenny (which I would recommend, if there are no
reasons holding you back) would't bring you a newer Dovecot version. And
upgrading to testing... well, it depends very much on what you are
doing.

So if you want a newer version on etch or lenny, you'll have to compile
it for yourself. With Debian, you have two options: just downloading the
original sources and compiling (whicshould be fairly easy with
dovecot!) or letting APT do it for you. The advantage of the second
approach would be that the package comes already configured in a way
that it fits the rest of the system, that the package database "knows"
about the installed package (and would be "willing" to upgrade it with a
later version) and that APT can do for you the legwork of geetting
whatever packages needed to actually do the build (the so-called "build
dependencies"). See [5] for some instructions on how to do that.


[1] <http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/dovecot-imapd>
[2] <http://packages.debian.org/etch/dovecot-imapd>
[3] <http://packages.debian.org/lenny/dovecot-imapd>
[4] <http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dovecot-imapd>
[5] <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html>

Regards
- -- tomás
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