On 3/3/2011 8:57 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-03-02 7:50 PM, Eric Broch wrote: >> Sorry, Charles , I didn't see your request not to top post. > No problem... > >> Is there s certain procedure for upgrading from dovecot 1.x to 2.x? >> Do I uninstall the current version on my machine? >> Or, is there an upgrade option during install? >> >> I just want to do it correctly. > When in doubt, rtfm... ;) > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/ > Thanks, Charles!
I had looked at that web page previously but it didn't offer any assistance on upgrading tarballs. So, I went ahead and started experimenting on my test server. Here is my procedure... (Stop Qmailtoaster) 1) qmailctl stop >> (Uninstall dovecot v1.2.3) 2) cd /my/dovecot/dir/dovecot-1.2.3 3) sudo make uninstall (Install dovecot v2.0.9) 4) cd /my/dovecot/dir 5) wget http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.9.tar.gz 6) tar -zxvf dovecot-2.0.9.tar.gz 7) cd dovecot-2.0.9 8) ./configure --with-vpopmail --with-ssl=openssl 9) make 10) sudo make install (Create the v2.0.9 configuration file from v1.2.3 configuration file andput it in v2 directory) 11) cp /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf 12) cd /usr/local/etc/dovecot 13) doveconf -n> dovecot-2.conf (Create v2 compatible file) 14) cp dovecot-2.conf dovecot.conf (Rename v2 compatible file) (Edit v2 file) 15) Removed the following setting from dovecot.conf (IMAP will not work with this setting) service auth { user = vpopmail } 16) qmailctl start Oh, and I've been informed that I missed creating the 'dovenull' user. Eric
