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Carlos Williams

28 May 2008 28 May '08

6:34 p.m.

I am currently running Dovecot on DoD production email server (Postfix) and the latest version the software available from Redhat is dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4. According to you guys, this is ancient and I was wondering what is the safest and easiest way to get my version updated without breaking it...

Thanks for any help and or points in the right direction...

[root@mail ~]# dovecot -n Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>]

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Timo Sirainen

28 May 28 May

6:42 p.m.

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:34 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:

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I am currently running Dovecot on DoD production email server (Postfix) and the latest version the software available from Redhat is dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4. According to you guys, this is ancient and I was wondering what is the safest and easiest way to get my version updated without breaking it...

Thanks for any help and or points in the right direction...

Get v1.0.13 from atrpms.net and read the upgrade instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0

Curtis Maloney

29 May 29 May

3:19 a.m.

Carlos Williams wrote:

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I am currently running Dovecot on DoD production email server (Postfix) and the latest version the software available from Redhat is dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4. According to you guys, this is ancient and I was wondering what is the safest and easiest way to get my version updated without breaking it...

I recently upgraded from 0.99.14 to 1.0.13. A quick run through the config file to make sure they matched, and that was it. Timo's included enough support that Dovecot will migrate/update a lot of things for you (like subscription files, etc).

It really was less painful than I'd anticipated.

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net

Carlos Williams

4:48 a.m.

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net wrote:

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I recently upgraded from 0.99.14 to 1.0.13. A quick run through the config file to make sure they matched, and that was it. Timo's included enough support that Dovecot will migrate/update a lot of things for you (like subscription files, etc).

It really was less painful than I'd anticipated.

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net

So are you saying all I have to really do is backup my current 0.99 /etc/dovecot.conf - then install the latest 1.0.13 & then that should be all?

I read the WIKI link previously suggested and it was very dry and left me with a lot of questions...

-- Man your battle stations...

Curtis Maloney

4:51 a.m.

Carlos Williams wrote:

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Curtis Maloney mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net> wrote:
I recently upgraded from 0.99.14 to 1.0.13. <http://1.0.13.>  A
quick run through the config file to make sure they matched, and
that was it.  Timo's included enough support that Dovecot will
migrate/update a lot of things for you (like subscription files, etc).

It really was less painful than I'd anticipated.
So are you saying all I have to really do is backup my current 0.99 /etc/dovecot.conf - then install the latest 1.0.13 & then that should be all?

Not quite. You need to port your existing config options to the new config file. It's changed syntax, and a few options have changed names.

However, that was ALL I changed. Mind you, I'm running a very basic setup (all Unix users in /etc/passwd + /etc/shadow, maildir, no quotas, etc).

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I read the WIKI link previously suggested and it was very dry and left me with a lot of questions...

Such as...?

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net

Kenneth Porter

31 May 31 May

1:51 a.m.

On Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:51 AM +1000 Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net wrote:

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I read the WIKI link previously suggested and it was very dry and left me with a lot of questions...

Such as...?

I run an all-IMAP shop, and the one thing that confused me was the UID setting in the POP3 section. I didn't want my users who synchronize against a local copy of their mail (eg. to read on the airplane) to have to re-download it again. I think the one user for which this was a concern ended up re-downloading anyway.

Apart from that one issue, the upgrade was painless.

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