If you use system accounts, the migration is so easy.
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
"Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\_(Tu)_/- :-)
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 18:27 John Hill via dovecot <[2][email protected]>
wrote:
Yes there is a release note, and yes it includes extreme changes.
I have yet to update Debian due to this. I did install in a test site
and spent the better part of a day getting it to work, hopefully.
In fairness Dovecot is free. They don't owe me anything. If opensource
software is going to treat its users like this. I guess that could
generate sales.
I am considering other options, before I upgrade to Debian 13 or maybe
something altogether different.
--john
On 1/24/26 9:48 AM, Washington Odhiambo via dovecot wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:11PM Curtis J Blank via dovecot
> <[1][3][email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just did a Tumbleweed upgrade. then I had to fix dovecot. No
warning
> that dovecot was going to break what so ever. Below is all the
things I
> had to fix. And then I could not read my email in Thunderbird
because
> you changed:
>
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> to
> mail_driver = mbox
> mail_path = ~/mail
> mail_inbox_path = /var/spool/mail/%{user}
>
> and the "%u" to "%{user}" was the showstopper.
>
> What a crock of BS! I spent 3 hours determining the problem and
then
> fixing dovecot because you decided to make major changes for no
good
> reason. It worked just fine the way it was. You could have
automated the
> changes by providing a utility that would make the changes the
first
> time it started up after the upgrade.
>
> All this ranting while you did not read the release announcement?
> Oh Lord of Mercy :-)
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
> "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\_(Tu)_/- :-)
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