On 2007 Mar 30 (Fri) at 20:56:43 -0700 (-0700), Kenneth Porter wrote: :--On Friday, March 30, 2007 8:26 PM -0700 Peter Hessler :phessler@theapt.org wrote: : :>This sort of decision is exactly why I'm the mail admin and they are :>not. They know things at the boardroom level, and they are :>(presumably) good at it. I don't look at things from the boardroom :>level. However, I understand the MTA-related arena better than they do. :>If they understood the details, why would they spend the money on my :>salary. : :So which rc are you running in production? What made you decide that rc and :not some other was "good enough" without being "too risky". What's your :confidence in that particular rc? : :I'm looking at 29 rc's and I have no idea how to pick. What's your method?
I personally am running rc22, and plan on upgrading to rc29 this
weekend. I chose it because it was the most recent dovecot when I last
upgraded. I've previously been upgrading to each rc within a day or
two of release. My upgrade testing goes like this: Install it on a
non-mailserver box, setup a bogus mail directory (usually a cp of my
regular Maildir/), poke at it with ipv4/ipv6 over both imap and pop3.
Usually 20 minutes is enough to figure its quality. If it passes, then
I kill the master dovecot process, uninstall old, install new, start up,
run tests again.
-- Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. -- Walt Kelly