(sorry for my previous message, I sent it by mistake before finishing it)
Hello,
We have a production mail server running dovecot 0.99 (dovecot-0.99.14-1.rf). We are getting several errors corrected in dovecot 1.x versions:
corrupted inboxes (garbage at beggining of mbox files),
corrupted index files (Error: Corrupted file index /home/jsmith/.imap/Drafts/.imap.index: Sequence 6 not found from binary tree (6 msgs says header)),
others (Error: fcntl() failed with mbox file /var/mail/jsmith: Resource deadlock avoided), etc.
I'm planning to upgrade using the instructions found at dovecot's wiki. On http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/ it is offered in 3 different versions:
- dovecot 1..0.15-1_73.el4
- dovecot 1.1.19-1_96.el4
- dovecot 1.2.5-0_100.el4
I have a separated test system, where I'll test upgrading from 0.99 to final selected version, to discover any possible gotchas found while upgrading.
Two questions:
Which version is the recommended to upgrade? I'd like stability and as little problems as possible over anything else, as we have a simple set up.
What is the preferred upgrade method? straight upgrade? (099 -> rpm -Fvh dovecot-1.2 ? Or upgrading one release at a time? (0.99 > 1.0 > 1.1 ...)
Thank you in advance for any recommendation.
Regards, Josep
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve
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