On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:27AM Jochen Becker via dovecot
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
Hi all
My name is Jochen and I have joined the list in order to get some first
hand advice on my journey of migrating my SOHO mail server from 2.3 to
2.4.
I set up my first server back in 2005 or so. OpenSuse and Cyrus IMAP.
That went fine until all of a sudden, some 8 or 10 years ago, Suse no
longer supported Cyrus directly. So I switched over to Dovecot and did
not regret it. My current production server (OpenSuse Leap 16, Dovecot
2.4.2) is running fine after a recent migration. But the HW is ageing
and disk usage is getting close to 80%. So I got new and larger HW. I
run OpenSuse Leap 16.0 and Dovecot 2.4.2 on it. As I ran into
unsurmountable problems there (could not move mail_path away from
/var/mail), I decided to set up a test system under Ubuntu server 25.10.
There I have got Dovecot running much better, but still, I ran into
problems I could not solve for quite some time now. So here I am.
I will start with questions about Dovecot on Ubuntu - my test system -
because there I hope my mistakes are not as bad.
Welcome to the list, Jochen.
1. Why did you not just migrate your OS to the new server. Would have been
a lot easier just running dd and then doing growfs to fill the new disk.
2. We are waiting for your questions on Dovecot on Ubuntu :)
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