upen put forth on 3/4/2011 9:52 PM: > Hello, > > I am in process of setting up an IMAP server (with postfix SMTP), I > installed RHEL 5.5 on my server and found that version of dovecot is > 1.x.x while when I checked online RHEL 6 is version is 2.x.x. > > Can someone please tell me if these two versions are still in > development or 1.x.x is very old and must be replaced by 2.x.x > version? > > Also are there any special features in 2.x.x or 1.x.x that makes it > better than other?
You are installing from scratch, thus you should use 2.x. Yes there are new features, and performance is generally better. You just might want to visit: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ Early 2.0.x versions had lots of bugs so you'll want to get as close to 2.0.10 as possible. > I see similar things for postfix package but I understand this is not > the place to ask postfix Qns, For RHEL 5.5 use Simon Mudd's Postfix binary RPM: http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.7/RPMS-rhel5-x86_64/postfix-2.7.2-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm If you have RHEL6 available to you, use it, and save yourself a bunch of grief trying to get current packages. It ships with Postfix 2.6.6 which is modern enough to fit most, if not all, of your needs. -- Stan
