dovecot - Sep 2006 - Upgrading

Hi Folks

OK - I'm ready to upgrade my version .99.11 to the latest release candidate
but I haven't a clue how to do that on a live mail server without potential
disruption. Can anyone help with advice on the best way to do this?

CentOS latest release
Running Sendmail/Procmail/Dovecot

Thanks
Chris

Chris Kenward wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> OK - I'm ready to upgrade my version .99.11 to the latest release
candidate
> but I haven't a clue how to do that on a live mail server without
potential
> disruption. Can anyone help with advice on the best way to do this?
Personally, since 1.0 is so close to being released, I am waiting until 
it goes final. That way I have a decent baseline - and take advantage of 
all of the bug fixes, etc...

That is my advice, fwiw...

Charles

Chris Kenward wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> OK - I'm ready to upgrade my version .99.11 to the latest release
candidate
> but I haven't a clue how to do that on a live mail server without
potential
> disruption. Can anyone help with advice on the best way to do this?
Yeah, I'm still waiting to upgrade from 0.99.14.. but mostly that's due
to time
limitations.
> CentOS latest release
> Running Sendmail/Procmail/Dovecot
Most of the work, from what I've seen, is in moving between config syntaxes.
If
you're using mbox, well.. mbox is mbox.  If you're using maildir, Timo
has
graciously added features so Dovecot will convert old index/subscription/etc 
files automagically.

So, if you're running a fairly simple setup (like I am), you can expect the 
migration to be simple and painless.  The only big hassle I predict is perhaps 
needing to blow away all the index files and start again - a task only 
complicated by users putting spaces in filenames :)

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Curtis Maloney
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