On 3/3/2011 8:57 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2011-03-02 7:50 PM, Eric Broch wrote:
Sorry, Charles , I didn't see your request not to top post. No problem...
Is there s certain procedure for upgrading from dovecot 1.x to 2.x? Do I uninstall the current version on my machine? Or, is there an upgrade option during install?
I just want to do it correctly. When in doubt, rtfm... ;)
Thanks, Charles!
I had looked at that web page previously but it didn't offer any assistance on upgrading tarballs. So, I went ahead and started experimenting on my test server. Here is my procedure...
(Uninstall dovecot v1.2.3)
- qmailctl stop
(Stop Qmailtoaster) 2) cd /my/dovecot/dir/dovecot-1.2.3 3) sudo make uninstall
(Install dovecot v2.0.9) 4) cd /my/dovecot/dir 5) wget http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.9.tar.gz 6) tar -zxvf dovecot-2.0.9.tar.gz 7) cd dovecot-2.0.9 8) ./configure --with-vpopmail --with-ssl=openssl 9) make 10) sudo make install
(Create the v2.0.9 configuration file from v1.2.3 configuration file andput it in v2 directory)
11) cp /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
12) cd /usr/local/etc/dovecot
13) doveconf -n> dovecot-2.conf (Create v2 compatible file)
14) cp dovecot-2.conf dovecot.conf (Rename v2 compatible file)
(Edit v2 file) 15) Removed the following setting from dovecot.conf (IMAP will not work with this setting)
service auth {
user = vpopmail
}- qmailctl start
Oh, and I've been informed that I missed creating the 'dovenull' user.
Eric