[Dovecot] Test version for production servers for shared folders

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Gavin Henry">
> <quote who="Chris Wakelin">
>> We're happily running 1.0-beta3 in production (~20,000 users), but one
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> Nice, 20k users!
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>> 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).
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> Well, that's stable enough for us ;-)
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>>
>> 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!
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> So I'll go with beta5 for now ;-)
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> 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:
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> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/yum/
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>
> Use:
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> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/yum/ivazquez.repo
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> Once saved in /etc/yum/repos.d/ enable via:

/etc/yum.repos.d even!

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> yum --enablerepo=ivazquez-alternatives install/update dovecot
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>
> Will use those RRMS (thought I'd post the url for others)
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> 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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>> Christopher Wakelin,                           c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
>> IT Services Centre, The University of Reading,  Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439
>> Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK              Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094
>>
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