Thank you for the reply. As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 version. Not more than that. Am I able to install or upgrade to dovecot 2.3 version in redhat 7.7? I have another question. I understand redhat 6.10 will go out of support in november 2020. But this is a test environment. Am i able to install dovecot 2.3 version on redhat 6.10? For the Live support, I will be doing it on redhat 7.7 version. For testing, I am trying redhat 6.10 version, if it is successful, i will be trying the Live one's on redhat 7.7 version. Please help me if it is possible to install dovecot 2.3 on redhat 6.10? This is a temporary test setup only. Thanks, Kishore Potnuru On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:26 PM Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:> Am 08.07.2020 um 11:53 schrieb Kishore Potnuru: > > Hi All, > > > > I request your help on this. > > > > I have 2 dovecot test servers (IMAP protocol) installed with the > following > > configuration. > > ============> > [root at devap01 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-* > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago) > > > > [root at devap01 ~]# dovecot --version > > 2.0.9 > > > > [root at devap01 ~]# postconf | grep mail_version > > mail_version = 2.6.6 > > ==============> > Kishore, > > please don't address me personally. This is a mailing list and I don't > offer / sell consulting. > > Let me comment only on the versions you provide. Please be aware that > RHEL 6 will get EOL by end of November this year. So your strategy > better comprises a migration to RHEL 7 or RHEL 8. > > Along that steps to a current RHEL major release you will profit from > newer Dovecot and Postfix releases. Running RHEL 8 you would even get > pretty current releases, still supported by the upstream projects. > > Alexander >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200708/701baca2/attachment.html>
Am 08.07.2020 um 20:28 schrieb Kishore Potnuru:> Thank you for the reply. > > As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 > version. Not more than that. Am I able to install or upgrade to dovecot 2.3 > version in redhat 7.7?Believe me, there is no technical reason why you can't use the current update release of RHEL 7. Current is # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo) redhat-release-server-7.8-2.el7.x86_64> I have another question. I understand redhat 6.10 will go out of support in > november 2020. But this is a test environment. Am i able to install dovecot > 2.3 version on redhat 6.10? For the Live support, I will be doing it on > redhat 7.7 version.Red Hat does not provide a newer dovecot. If you don't need their support and just test out dovecot 2.3 you can get it as a working RPM package from ghettoforge.org.> For testing, I am trying redhat 6.10 version, if it is successful, i will > be trying the Live one's on redhat 7.7 version. > > Please help me if it is possible to install dovecot 2.3 on redhat 6.10? > This is a temporary test setup only.https://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/6/plus/x86_64/dovecot23-2.3.10.1-1.gf.el6.x86_64.rpm http://ghettoforge.org/index.php/Usage> Thanks, > Kishore PotnuruAlexander
On July 8, 2020 11:01:20 AM AKDT, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:>Am 08.07.2020 um 20:28 schrieb Kishore Potnuru: >> Thank you for the reply. >> >> As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 >> version. Not more than that. Am I able to install or upgrade to >dovecot 2.3 >> version in redhat 7.7?I am running Dovecot 2.2 "u" on CentOS from https://ius.io/. If there is a package there for 2.3, it should be possible to upgrade on either CentOS or RHEL. I am still a little bit confused or concerned why mainstream packages seem to be lagging so far behind on CentOS and RHEL since the sudden acquisition or hostile corporate takeover of Red Hat by IBM. Possibly a corporate labor-union work slowdown. IBM is too big, too blue, and too politically correct. Something is a little bit off. Too many echoes in the hallways. /Sorry for the rant. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
On 08 Jul 2020, at 12:28, Kishore Potnuru <kishore.reachme at gmail.com> wrote:> As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 version.If you have artificial constraints that limit your software to only what is available for old Extended Support systems them when that old software is not working, you need to go to the people providing the extended support and have them fix the software. I something is working in the current Dovecot but you can't use the current dovecot, there's not really any way for dovecot to solve that for you. With the rapid changes in security requirements and in particular for mail, running mail on a 10 year-old release and maybe considering updating to a 6 year-old release is just not a good plan. It seems to me that mail, DNS, http, and TLS/SSH/etc software should be kept up-to-date on any forward-facing machines. "Extended" versions of the OS sound like they're a great idea, but when they leave you behind with broken or vulnerable software is there really a benefit? -- Say, give it up, give it up, television's taking its toll That's enough, that's enough, gimme the remote control I've been nice, I've been good, please don't do this to me Turn it off, turn it off, I don't want to have to see
> with broken or vulnerable software is there really a benefit?LTS distributions back port necessary patches
> On 8. Jul 2020, at 21.28, Kishore Potnuru <kishore.reachme at gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the reply. > > As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 version. Not more than that. Am I able to install or upgrade to dovecot 2.3 version in redhat 7.7? > > I have another question. I understand redhat 6.10 will go out of support in november 2020. But this is a test environment. Am i able to install dovecot 2.3 version on redhat 6.10? For the Live support, I will be doing it on redhat 7.7 version. > > For testing, I am trying redhat 6.10 version, if it is successful, i will be trying the Live one's on redhat 7.7 version. > > Please help me if it is possible to install dovecot 2.3 on redhat 6.10? This is a temporary test setup only.https://repo.dovecot.org/ <https://repo.dovecot.org/> has 2.3.10.1 CE release for CentOS 6. It should work on RHEL 6 too. But since support for CentOS/RHEL 6 is dropping soon, I think we will stop building CentOS 6 CE releases soon. Not sure what will be the last one as I'm not in charge of that. Sami -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200708/09005add/attachment.html>
On 08.07.20 20:28, Kishore Potnuru wrote:> > I have another question. I understand redhat 6.10 will go out of > support in november 2020. But this is a test environment. Am i able to > install dovecot 2.3 version on redhat 6.10? For the Live support, I > will be doing it on redhat 7.7 version.? > > For testing, I am trying redhat 6.10 version, if it is successful, i > will be trying the Live one's on redhat 7.7 version.Testing with version 6.10 and then running on 7.7 is probably not a good idea. I highly recommend the same versions of software for testing and production - so better start your tests on 7.7