[Dovecot] seeking advice: dovecot versions; mailbox formats.

Adam Szpakowski as at 3a.pl
Thu Mar 8 14:24:13 EET 2012


On 08.03.2012 10:56, Vincent Schut wrote:
> Debian currently has dovecot 1.2.15 in its repositories; not that much 
> newer...
> I read in the docs about the auto-generated-from-hg debian dovecot 
> packages for 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. Which leaves me to the choice what 
> version to use... OK, 2.2 is development, which leaves the choice to: 
> 1.2.15; 2.0.x, or 2.1.x.
>
> I would appreciate any consideration or thoughts on what version to 
> choose.
On several production machines we are using dovecot from debian testing 
repos, so 2.0.x. It's working stable for us and is quite easy to maintain.
Please be careful and very selectively install packages from testing. If 
possible, the package dependences should be installed from stable/security.

-- 
Adam Szpakowski


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