Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:44:53PM -0600, Saurabh Barve wrote:
I am running dovecot 0.99-14 on a Fedora Core 2 machine. I had a few questions:
- I wanted to upgrade to the dovecot-1.0 release. [...] iii) I like to install software from rpm's. [...]
So, are there newer version of dovecot (1.0-stable) available in rpm formats which are guaranteed to be safe and un-trojaned? [...]
we are ruinning dovecot stable 1.0 from Feb 21st on a O(1000) accounts mail server. Not a big one, but we have done quite a few tests with it (including using a 13000 mails account in one mbox via IMP, quite a good pairing, searching the mbox above cost only 2-3 secs!).
You can get rpms for Fedora Cores, RHLs and RHELs from
http://atrpms.net/name/dovecot/It's also apt-get'able and yumified, but it is in the testing repos, not the stable ones.
I'd be interested in feedback from developers, e.g. when it is considered good to update the packages. Thanks!
- Would I be able to support web mail using mailboxes in mbox format, as I have them now? Or do I have to go for Maildir format?
It's your choice, check the namespaces. We have system mailboxes in Mailfir and user mailboxes in mbox (~/Mail).
Also, if I do need to convert from mbox to Maildir, what is the standard tool for doing that? I saw at least three different tools/scripts for doing that (mbox2maildir,mb2d,mb2md-2,mb2md.pl, .. ). Which tool (and from where) should I use to convert mailboxes without problems?
We used md2md and liked it quite a lot:
http://atrpms.net/dist/common/mb2md/HTH
Thanks all for the responses. I'll try out a newer rpm for dovecot from the suggested sites, and if it doesn't work out I'll revert back to the working instance on 0.99-14. Now if only somebody could shed some light on my other little problem: ;)
I was supporting Secure-IMAP using dovecot for some time. However, the self-signed certificate expires in one month. I understand that there are security-issues in letting the certificate last indefinitely. Is there a way around this? Or do I just keep regenerating the certificate every month?
Thanks all, Saurabh. sa@atmos.colostate.edu