[Dovecot] Upgrading 1.2 to 2.x

[Simon Brereton]

On 5 Mar 2013 15:19, "Steffen Kaiser" <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Simon Brereton wrote:
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>> I'm about to upgrade to 2.1.7 in my test environment, but  "doveconf
>> -n -c dovecot.1.conf > dovecot.2.conf" is producing a blank file, so I
>> am unsure how to proceed.  I know a lot has changed between them, so I
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> honestly, especially because "a lot has changed between them"
> I would start from scratch.
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>> don't really want to have to start from scratch unless I have to.
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> check what you have changed in v1.2 config, then check if that particular
setting has changed or the functionality has changed, and finally change
the default in v2.1

I'd prefer to have a semi-decent config to work from without having to
research 100 new variable names and values.  The migration tool exists for
a reason.

Simon