[Dovecot] Move from 1.0.rc29 to 1.1.7?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:04 +0100, Peter Lindgren wrote:
> Hello!
> I am moving my mail from the old server with 1.0.rc29 to a brand new 
> server with 1.1.7. I use Maildir in both servers. A few questions:
> 
> 1) The new server has another name, can I just copy the mail files 
> as-is, will the server name in the file names matter?

Just copy them.

> 2) The new server has a different architecture and different endian, so 
> I plan not to copy the index and cache files; they seem to have become 
> broken from time to time in the old server anyway. Dovecot will also 
> re-create them when needed. Ok?

Right.

> 3) 1.0.rc29 did not store the message size in the file name as later 
> versions. When will Dovecot do the check and rename the files to include 
> the message size? There are some folders with quite large number of 
> messages, the largest is some 45,000 messages.

It doesn't rename anything and it also doesn't require sizes in the file
names.

So your upgrade should go just fine.
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