[Dovecot] Test version for production servers for shared folders

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Chris Wakelin">
> We're happily running 1.0-beta3 in production (~20,000 users), but one

Nice, 20k users!

> or two users have hit the bug in the Outlook-idle workaround, which is
> fixed in 1.0-beta5 (a couple of users are now using 1.0-beta5, but I'll
> wait to see if this bug a big issue before upgrading).

Well, that's stable enough for us ;-)

>
> I'd agree with Odhiambo, the 1.0-betas are probably more stable than
> 0.99.x. I just get a bit jumpy when Timo replaces whole chunks of code
> in one go (like the ssl code rewrite in 1.0-beta4 that had to be
> reversed).
>
> To sum up, yes, use the betas, but maybe wait a week or so after each
> release!

So I'll go with beta5 for now ;-)

I am a Fedora Extras CVS committer (and the Docs steering committee, if
that matters) and just spoke to Ignacio, who does the Fedora RPMs for
dovecot. He has a yum repo for the latest versions at:

http://fedora.ivazquez.net/yum/


Use:

http://fedora.ivazquez.net/yum/ivazquez.repo

Once saved in /etc/yum/repos.d/ enable via:

yum --enablerepo=ivazquez-alternatives install/update dovecot


Will use those RRMS (thought I'd post the url for others)

Thanks,

Gavin.

>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
> Gavin Henry wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Is the latest test version suitable for production systems?
>>
>> Our current servers use 0.99 on FC4 and we would like to add shared
>> folders via the test version.
>>
>> Has anyone migrated this way before?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gavin.
>>
>
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