Re: [Dovecot] Can I install in the following fashion?

If you're using Debian, you can just "apt-get install dovecot-imap dovecot-pop", and have the dpkg handle all of the issues you mentioned. If you're using an RPM based distro- try yum or apt-rpm.

And there is nothing stopping you making a deb package, from a newer version of dovecot, that Debian has, AND, duplicating the server, so you can do a test upgrade... Of course, with any upgrade, someone will notice something ;-)

Tim

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