Moving from one Dovecot server to another Dovecot server

[Philipp Faeustlin]

Am 27.08.2014 um 14:52 schrieb Michael:
>
> Quoting Philipp Faeustlin <Philipp.Faeustlin at uni-hohenheim.de>:
>
>> Am 27.08.2014 um 13:23 schrieb Michael:
>>> Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Michael wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm planning to move all mailboxes from a Dovecot 2.2.10 server to a
>>>>> Dovecot 2.2.9 server. Dovecot is serving virtual users only.
>>>>
>>>> you downgrade?
>>>
>>> Yes, because I'm switching from CentOS 6.5 to Ubuntu 14.04. On the
>>> CentOS system I used the ATrpms repo. For Ubuntu I did not find any
>>> appropriate 3rd party repo. So I'm going to use the standard repo.
>>
>> Perhaps the official Dovecot Repo would be a better solution:
>> http://shop.dovecot.fi/home/8-dovecot-ee-repository-access.html
>
> I've already been aware of this web site. I saw that they offer only
> packages for Ubuntu 12.04. I'm Using Ubuntu 14.04. I know that often
> it's not a problem to take packages from another version. But I'm not
> sure if there are some conflicts to be expected. So I wrote an e-mail to
> the contact but did not get an answer yet.
> Do you have any information if this repo can also be used on Ubuntu
> 14.04 without problems?
No I haven't, but I think it is better to have the latest version of 
Dovecot, especially with Ubuntu because not long ago I found this:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-3430.html
I'm not sure how to judge this message but it doesn't sounds very good.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

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