On 09/01/18 11:46, John Tulp wrote:

Should I send a response to your message via an email to dovecot@dovecot.org ? Or just reply to you directly like this ?

You should always reply to the mailing list unless told otherwise.

For CentOS version, I need to support 32-bit x86 a while longer.

Ok.

Could you possibly save me some time and provide a link on the dovecot.org site ?

https://repo.dovecot.org/

  I really did not want to install from source, I was very surprised that I did not find a link to download a completely built backage on dovecot.org.

The official dovecot repo is fairly new, but also GhettoForge has been providing dovecot packages for CentOS 6 and 7 for quite some time now.

Regarding yum update, yes, I would assume that I would not run yum update after that build/install.

That's a bad idea. You need to run updates on a regular basis to fix new vulnerabilities that are discovered such as the very recent meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities (look these up, they're serious).

I'm really perplexed as to why yum update would not just take me to 2.3.0 ???  I guess the RedHat folks just include "certain" releases of packages in the repositories ?

See: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting

Peter