[Dovecot] version difference understanding

[upen]

Stan, hi!


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> upen put forth on 3/4/2011 9:52 PM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am in process of setting up an IMAP server (with postfix SMTP), I
>> installed RHEL 5.5 on my server and found that version of dovecot is
>> 1.x.x while when I checked online RHEL 6 is version is 2.x.x.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me if these two versions are still in
>> development or 1.x.x is very old and must be replaced by 2.x.x
>> version?
>>
>> Also are there any special features in 2.x.x or 1.x.x that makes it
>> better than other?
>
> You are installing from scratch, thus you should use 2.x.  Yes there are
> new features, and performance is generally better.  You just might want
> to visit:  http://wiki2.dovecot.org/  Early 2.0.x versions had lots of
> bugs so you'll want to get as close to 2.0.10 as possible.
>
>> I see similar things for postfix package but I understand this is not
>> the place to ask postfix Qns,
>
> For RHEL 5.5 use Simon Mudd's Postfix binary RPM:
> http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.7/RPMS-rhel5-x86_64/postfix-2.7.2-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
>
> If you have RHEL6 available to you, use it, and save yourself a bunch of
> grief trying to get current packages.  It ships with Postfix 2.6.6 which
> is modern enough to fit most, if not all, of your needs.
>
> --
> Stan
>

Thanks so much for such an important and useful piece of information!
Really appreciate your help!

I think we will be able to use RHEL 6 on our server as nothing has
been configured on RHEL 5.5 yet! Thanks for that RPM link for postfix
as well, will be handy if something stops us from reinstalling rhel 6
on the new server.


God bless!
~A




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