On 11/4/2008 8:29 AM, Christopher Alexander wrote:
I need to migrate an old mail server running Dovecot (0.99.14) to a new server running Dovecot (1.0.7; as shipped with CentOS 5.2).
I would *strongly* urge you to go ahead and use the latest version (currently 1.1.6) available at atrpms.net...
My plan was to use the imapsync utility as this will "seamlessly" do the conversion from mbox to maildir between the boxes as well.
I've got the MasterUser authentication working fine on the new host and was just about to start getting MasterUsers working on the old host.
I noticed that the old .99 version dovecot.conf seems to have a mildly different syntax from 1.0 dovecot.conf. In particular a lot of the directives do not use braces and such.
Is the .99 dovecot.conf file essentially able to deal with the same sort of syntax as outlined in the MasterUsers wiki page? [ http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers ]
I just wanted to bounce this off you guys before I started messing with a live system. ;)
I would also strongly encourage you to start with a fresh, clean config file, and carefully read the update pages on the wiki:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading?action=show&redirect=UpgradingDovecot
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Best regards,
Charles