[Dovecot] dovecot upgrade problems

[Noel Butler]

Hi,
Firstly its clear you did not remove your existing version installed by
your OS's package manager.
Backup your conf file before doing so.

By default most source installs of any software install into /usr/local/
you might also want to consider make uninstall from your existing source
build directory.
Try as a starting point   
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var   ...other_options_here...

then you'll end up with /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
your conf files will end up in /etc and binary files will be
in /usr/sbin and so on... with other goodies in /usr/lib/dovecot


On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 09:58 +0200, Cieslak, Andreas wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> i made an upgrade from dovecot 1.0RC15 to 1.1.20
> 
> the default installation was under /etc/dovecot.
> The upgrade installation was made under /usr/local/etc.
> 
> After that i changed all the paths in the /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
> and the dovecot-binary to work with the new installation.
> Even path-changes were made for /etc/init.d/dovecot to work with the
> version 1.1.20.