Upgrade from 1.2 to 2.2

[Aki Tuomi]

On 15.02.2017 14:39, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>
> > 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" ?
>
> actually, you answer your question yourself:
>
> "Can I test"
>
> yes: you can and *should* test, but it's a major upgrade.
>
> I did it so:
>
> + checked out the automated conversation,
> + each change I made to the conf of Dovecot v1, I read, what to do in
> v2 and applied the change to the default configuration manually with
> hints from the step above
> + once all in place, I started a test system with a bunch of accounts
> that used all features: sieve, sharing, ... .
>
> -- Steffen Kaiser

Btw, I think the most safe option would be to make *new* server
(advantage to upgrade the platform here too) and migrate users to the
new server instead of upgrading. Just my 2c.

Aki