[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

[William Blunn]

On 15/08/2010 17:14, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist:
>>> dovenull
>>>
>>> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or 
>>> why it is necessary.
>> I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 :
>>
>> - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot.
>> You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user 
>> setting.
> Dovecot 2.x seems to be very close to release grade. Could you provide 
> a guess as to when it will be released so that I can plan downtime for 
> the upgrade on my production servers?

See Timo's comment of Friday 13/08/2010 19:29:
> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc6.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc6.tar.gz.sig
>
> I expect this to be the last release candidate. Unless release 
> critical bugs are reported, I'll update the version number to v2.0.0 
> on Monday morning without any other changes.
>
> Since rc5 there have been mainly some small fixes and some error 
> message improvements. The only (somewhat) important fixes are:
>
> - dict quota didn't always decrease quota when messages were expunged
> - Shared INBOX wasn't always listed with FS layout

"I'll update the version number to v2.0.0 on Monday morning"

Bill