On 11.02.2010 5:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

System: Debian 5.0.4 Lenny Kernel: custom 2.6.31.1 built from kernel.org source Dovecot: 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 Available: 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1 Mailbox format: mbox Storage location: /home/$user/mail/ on ext2 fs Delivery: Postfix 2.5.5 local to /var/mail/$user

As you can see Debian has a backport package of Dovecot 1.2.9 available to Lenny users, and it appears it is a big jump forward in terms of elapsed time and codebase.

Debian ships Dovecot in a collection of 6 packages. I currently only use two, dovecot-common and dovecot-imapd. I'm guessing it would probably be wise to shutdown all my current Dovecot processes before starting the upgrade.

Before I do this upgrade I figured I'd ask first to see if there are any gotchas or explosions awaiting me. Any warnings, hints, pointers anyone? Timo?

Thanks.

Only these http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2