dovecot pre-install issue

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/16/2016 01:06 AM, soumitri at iitk.ac.in wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am going for a dovecot director based setup (2 director+ 2 imap), more
> imap servers will be added later  depending on demand/load. Presently I
> have 12000+ dovecot users with Maildir quota varying from 1 GB to 20GB.
> (peak hour IOPS 50000+)
>
> I am having 2 options in choosing dovecot version.
>
> 1) Old stable release. I.e RHEL, with prebuilt binary. This will be
> having less trouble in managing. Why RHEL still using version 2.2.10.
>
> 2) Latest release with best features and lesser known bugs. I.e CentOS7
> with with latest compiled version. I have to be more involved if a bug
> is found.
>
> I will prefer a less admin work after the setup, with all/most features
> working.
>
> If you have a recent similar setup/dovecot gurus, Pl. suggest.
>
> With thanks & regards,
>

I only run small server but I use CentOS and build the most recent 
myself and do not have many issues.

CentOS 7 dovecot btw is same as RHEL 7 dovecot as far as I know.