[Dovecot] Upgrade/Migration

[sottilette at rfx.it]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, William Blunn wrote:

>>  New box (supposed): CentOS 6.x (32/64 bit ? ), dovecot 2.04, mbox format
>>
>>  Any hints/comment appreciated ;-) 
>
> Don't use Dovecot 2.0.4, even if your distro tries to tempt you into doing so 
> by including such a version.
>
> Whilst it looks like a stable version number, there were a number of issues 
> with early Dovecot 2.0.x.
>
> Instead use 2.0.latest.

Are there relevant difference between 2.0.4 and 2.0.16 config?


> Starting from http://www.dovecot.org/download.html you could find
>
> http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/dovecot/
>
> which provides 32- and 64-bit RPMs of Dovecot 2.0.16.

Started upgrading old box.

- backup data and conf, downloaded old rpm for emergengy
- rpm -Uvh dovecot-2.0.16-1_132.el4.i386.rpm
- changed some config settings so I can start the daemon ...

- seems to work. ;-)

There is a way to test it intensively before users do it for me? ;-)


Happy new year to all ;-)

Thanks, P.