Stan, hi!
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > 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 > Thanks so much for such an important and useful piece of information! Really appreciate your help! I think we will be able to use RHEL 6 on our server as nothing has been configured on RHEL 5.5 yet! Thanks for that RPM link for postfix as well, will be handy if something stops us from reinstalling rhel 6 on the new server. God bless! ~A -- upen, emerge -uD life (Upgrade Life with dependencies)
