[Dovecot] Test version for production servers for shared folders

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="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!
>>
>>> 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:
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> /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)

Installed beta5 via yum (above), converted old dovecot.conf to new
version, running fine. And may I say, what a speed improvement, even
though dovecot was extremely fast anyway!

We get about 2GB of e-mail a day through our servers and sifting the
fedora archive on our servers, with 10k e-mails is a breeze.

Great work everyone!

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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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