dovecot - Nov 2008 - MasterUser and old rev of Dovecot (0.99.14)

I need to migrate an old mail server running Dovecot (0.99.14) to a  
new server running Dovecot (1.0.7; as shipped with CentOS 5.2).

My plan was to use the imapsync utility as this will "seamlessly" do  
the conversion from mbox to maildir between the boxes as well.

I've got the MasterUser authentication working fine on the new host  
and was just about to start getting MasterUsers working on the old host.

I noticed that the old .99 version dovecot.conf seems to have a mildly  
different syntax from 1.0 dovecot.conf. In particular a lot of the  
directives do not use braces and such.

Is the .99 dovecot.conf file essentially able to deal with the same  
sort of syntax as outlined in the MasterUsers wiki page? [
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
  ]

I just wanted to bounce this off you guys before I started messing  
with a live system. ;)

Thanks in advance.


--
Christopher Alexander
UNIX Network Administrator
Broadband Network Technologies Branch (VPNT), Research Network Systems  
(MRNS)
Communications Research Centre    [ http://www.crc.ca ]
Government of Canada              [ http://www.gc.ca  ]

On 11/4/2008 8:29 AM, Christopher Alexander wrote:
> 
> I need to migrate an old mail server running Dovecot (0.99.14) to a new
> server running Dovecot (1.0.7; as shipped with CentOS 5.2).
I would *strongly* urge you to go ahead and use the latest version
(currently 1.1.6) available at atrpms.net...
> My plan was to use the imapsync utility as this will "seamlessly"
do the
> conversion from mbox to maildir between the boxes as well.
> 
> I've got the MasterUser authentication working fine on the new host and
> was just about to start getting MasterUsers working on the old host.
> 
> I noticed that the old .99 version dovecot.conf seems to have a mildly
> different syntax from 1.0 dovecot.conf. In particular a lot of the
> directives do not use braces and such.
> 
> Is the .99 dovecot.conf file essentially able to deal with the same sort
> of syntax as outlined in the MasterUsers wiki page? [
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers ]
> 
> I just wanted to bounce this off you guys before I started messing with
> a live system. ;)
I would also strongly encourage you to start with a fresh, clean config
file, and carefully read the update pages on the wiki:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading?action=show&redirect=UpgradingDovecot

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

On 4-Nov-08, at 9:23 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> I would *strongly* urge you to go ahead and use the latest version
> (currently 1.1.6) available at atrpms.net...
>
> I would also strongly encourage you to start with a fresh, clean  
> config
> file, and carefully read the update pages on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading? 
> action=show&redirect=UpgradingDovecot
>

I may upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 before the new system goes live.

I need to know how to configure MasterUser under 0.99 so I can copy  
the old email to the new host. Do I have to upgrade from 0.99 to 1.x  
in order to have access to a MasterUser under dovecot? Is that what  
you meant?

Thanks!