See src/config/old-set-parser.c for how doveconf does it. It doesn't convert some (more rarely used) settings that are also difficult to convert. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 lists those things.

On 5.4.2013, at 2.37, Felipe Gasper (cPanel) felipe@cpanel.net wrote:

I mean without using doveconf.

Manually going in, with a text editor, and changing the settings to the new formats.

Is there anything that describes how to do this?

-FG

On 4/4/13 6:28 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote:

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Hi Felipe,

Felipe Gasper (cPanel) wrote:

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Is there documentation somewhere on how to update a dovecot 1 configuration file to dovecot 2’s preferred formats?

We’re looking to provide Dovecot 2 with cPanel; having that documentation would help us update the config file templates that we ship.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveconf

doveconf can be used to convert v1.x configuration files into v2.x format:

doveconf -n -c dovecot1.conf > dovecot2.conf

Regards Daniel

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