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
