Upgrade from 1.2 to 2.2

[Aki Tuomi]

On 15.02.2017 11:47, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a production server running Debian Squeeze with Dovecot 1.2
> I would like to upgrade everything to Jessie, running 2.2
>
> Last time I did something similiar, but from Lenny to Squeeze, the
> whole dovecot installation broke.
>
> Any suggestion on how to upgrade everything ? Can I test our current
> configuration with a newer dovecot version to be sure that everything
> would be converted properly with
> "doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf" ?
>
> Thank you

Hi!

For good pointers, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading

it's not complete, but it should give you some idea.

Aki