[Dovecot] manually updating dovecot 1 config to dovecot 2

[Timo Sirainen]

See src/config/old-set-parser.c for how doveconf does it. It doesn't convert some (more rarely used) settings that are also difficult to convert. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 lists those things.

On 5.4.2013, at 2.37, Felipe Gasper (cPanel) <felipe at cpanel.net> wrote:

> I mean without using doveconf.
> 
> Manually going in, with a text editor, and changing the settings to the new formats.
> 
> Is there anything that describes how to do this?
> 
> -FG
> 
> On 4/4/13 6:28 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote:
>> Hi Felipe,
>> 
>> Felipe Gasper (cPanel) wrote:
>>> Is there documentation somewhere on how to update a dovecot 1
>>> configuration file to dovecot 2’s preferred formats?
>>> 
>>> We’re looking to provide Dovecot 2 with cPanel; having that
>>> documentation would help us update the config file templates that we
>>> ship.
>> 
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveconf
>> 
>> doveconf can be used to convert v1.x configuration files into v2.x format:
>> 
>> doveconf -n -c dovecot1.conf > dovecot2.conf
>> 
>> Regards
>> Daniel
>> 
> 
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