Robert Schetterer skrev den 2015-10-15 18:58:
stable vs unstable is a very personal idea from software
i know my gentoo overlay is unstalbe, but it still works for the ebuilds i still use from it, oh no :=)
over the time related to dovecot there may existed versions called stable but there was never a bugfree one,
bugs can be resolved with patchs
depend to all features included, so its more like a rolling release in general.
yep we will see dovecot version 3.x some time in future, this will indeed make dovecot v1 and v2 depricated :=)
So using latest is always the best option
if needed yes, i just keept v1 long enough to make v2 setup stable to be used as replacement hosting for my emails, used imapsync to move mails, and it worked like a charm for me