[Dovecot] Imap folders missing after updating

Dominic Marks dom at helenmarks.co.uk
Tue May 9 18:27:43 EEST 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:03, Dominic Marks wrote:
>
>> >> To make this relevant to the conversion, can you tell us what
>> >> versions of Dovecot have been included and how they handled
>> >> the transition from .99x to 1.x in those distros?
>> >
>> > If you are talking about the configuration file changes then this
>> is
>> > the responsibility of the admin to modify. In FreeBSD at least
>> > upgrading required manual editing of the configuration.
>> >
>> > FreeBSD has a tool called portupgrade which can be used for
>> automatic
>> > configuration. It can be configured to hold the current version of
>> an
>>
>> Sorry, I meant automatic upgrades, not configuration.
>
> Did they have one of these for the .99x -> 1.x upgrade and
> is this a script that could be used elsewhere to make the
> appropriate syntax changes automatically?

No, and the value of such tools if questionable. I think scripts like
this have the potential to be quite dangerous. Besides, its part of
the job of the admin :)

Dom

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