[Dovecot] Upgrade To New Version
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>]
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:34 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:
Get v1.0.13 from atrpms.net and read the upgrade instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0
Carlos Williams wrote:
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
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Curtis Maloney <cmaloney@cardgate.net> wrote:
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...
Carlos Williams wrote:
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).
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
On Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:51 AM +1000 Curtis Maloney <cmaloney@cardgate.net> wrote:
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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Carlos Williams
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Curtis Maloney
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Kenneth Porter
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Timo Sirainen