On 11/09/2010 20:17, Donny Brooks wrote:
On the old mail server it is: dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 On the new mail server we are migrating to it is: dovecot-1.2.14-1.fc13.x86_64 currently
Is there a repo out there that I can install 2.0 from? The only one I have found is atrpms and it is a pain to get conflict worked out with other packages.
If you use Dovecot 2.0 you also get the choice of multi-dbox.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
This would give you some advantages:
With multi-dbox, multiple messages are stored in the same file. But once a mail file contains 2 megabytes (configurable), Dovecot moves on to a new file and leaves the old files unchanging. This should be quite nice for your backup strategy because you would only backup the "current" file for each user, limited to 2 megabytes per user (or whatever amount you think appropriate).
With multi-dbox, if you have many small messages, these are all stored in the same file. This vastly reduces the number of files required to store mail, which means fewer inodes consumed, and I think backup systems often work better with a smaller number of larger files than a larger number of smaller files.
If you use multi-dbox, you will need to use a Dovecot delivery software (e.g. dovecot-lda).
Bill