[Dovecot] Imap folders missing after updating

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> I hadn't thought about upgrading for a while now since I had hoped most
> people already had upgraded from 0.99.x. But I guess there are lots of
> people using it from some distributions..

> It would be easy to change the code to fallback to .subscriptions file
> if subscriptions isn't found, and the same for .customflags ->
> dovecot-keywords. Although for non-upgrade cases it can cause extra
> stat() calls which are a bit annoying.

This shouldn't really be your problem but the ideal solution
might be a .99.99.99 (or so) release including all the
changes you can that won't break working installations
so an update would fit the 'bugfix only' policy of the
enterprise distributions that will be maintained for
a long time.  And I wouldn't worry about some extra stat()s
if they keep existing systems working through the upgrade.
Another interesting pool of users will be on the SME server
distro (http://www.contribs.org).  They haven't quite cut a
new release yet but they are working from Centos 4.x base
(same as RHEL4.x) which currently has a .99 dovecot.  This is
an appliance-like distribution with template created config
files so syntax changes must be coordinated into the rest of
the system.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com