Alex wrote: > Paul J Stevens wrote: > >> I sympathise. It's a problem that needs solving. > > > Agreed, though how come this hasn't been fixed yet? It's a kind of thing > that would make most migrations simply impossible.
Most people startout with fresh install I guess. I know I do. But now I'm also faced with a major migration, which is stalled because of this issue. > Alright, I can put the migration off for another week, but not longer. > Big question is, how stable/safe will 2.1.6 be? I'll definitely be doing > migration tests. If the mails are OK and so on. 2.1.6 should be solid. I've been migrating all my installations from 1.2 or 2.0 to svn-trunk lately. No problems at all. > But how sure can I be that during longer use mails won't get corrupt or > the imap or pop3 daemon will start dying? Or put in other words, how far > is the planned 2.1.6 from 2.2.0? Given that you did a devel freeze with > 2.1.4, the latest HEAD should be quite good? Yes. 2.0 and 2.1 share the exact same preforking server setup, which means problems with dying daemons should arise both in 2.0 and 2.1. > > Migrating from mbox to dbmail 2.1.x instead of 2.0.x does sound like a > good thing too, assuming things work. The upgrade to 2.2.x should be > easier then and the new features help a lot. > > So, assuming 2.1.6 will be released before 15th April (plausible?) and > testing with latest svn HEAD won't show any major trouble from the > start, should I go for 2.1.6? That's what I'm saying. > > I have about 10+GB worth of mbox'es for 600 users, which are used used > with pop3, imap and squirrelmail/imap. Sounds like a decent test base to > me, maybe I'll be able to help out with testing too. Great. > So what do you think, is it worth to go for 2.1.6 for production use? If your willing to file detailed bug reports, should you find any, yes! > Considering 2.0.x series won't give me correct dates anyway and that's a > no go, I don't see any other way except for waiting for 2.2.0. And I > can't stall too long, not that I'd know how long that is.. Before the summer. I'm aiming for may/june. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
