Hi Jean-Daniel, thanks a lot for your answer. Think for the first time I will stick to the default ubuntu version and see how these packages will progress in the future.
Michael Am Mo., 26. Nov. 2018 um 09:46 Uhr schrieb Jean-Daniel Dupas < jddu...@xooloo.com>: > > > > Le 25 nov. 2018 à 19:25, Michael Ludwig <frozenyoghurt2...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > > > > > Hello Dovecot-List, > > > > so Ubuntu users now can get the latest dovecot version. As I am just > building a production mailserver for customers, this could come in handy, > maybe. > > For a live production system, is it reasonable to switch from the main > Ubuntu Dovecot release to your newer packages? > > How long will the Dovecot team build these packages? When the team don't > want to build these packages anymore, how difficult will it be to switch > back to the Ubuntu maintained versions? > > > > I did the switch from mainstream to dovecot repo to upgrade from 2.2 to > 2.3 on xenial, and appart one or two minor configurations changes, it > worked just fine. > > And more recently, I switched from a bionic-backport of cosmic release > (used to get 2.3 on bionic) to this just released version using apt and it > was transparent. > > In my case, switching back to mainstream on the other hand would be > harder, as I now rely on 2.3 specific features. > > So I guess as long as you don't use features that are not yet released > upstream, switching back should not be difficult. > > > >
