On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:24:17 +0000, you wrote: >On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:53:12PM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> I am usually fairly good at this, but some of the organizational and >> configuration symbol-name differences between Postfix 2.5.5 and 2.10.5 >> are, well, way out there! :-) I thought I could drop the 2.5.5 .conf >> file into place on the 2.10.5 system. No! To many symbols that have >> changed, or section formats that are different. Anyone care to >> volunteer to sit with me and my files for hhalf an hour to get these >> dependencies resolved? > >See: > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vdukhovni/postfix/master/postfix/RELEASE_NOTES-2.6 > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vdukhovni/postfix/master/postfix/RELEASE_NOTES-2.7 > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vdukhovni/postfix/master/postfix/RELEASE_NOTES-2.8 > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vdukhovni/postfix/master/postfix/RELEASE_NOTES-2.9 > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vdukhovni/postfix/master/postfix/RELEASE_NOTES-2.10 > >All major differences are described there. Generally you should >be able to take an older set of configuration files, run > > # postfix upgrade-configuration > >and have a working system that behaves in a backwards-compatible >way. Some Debian systems ship with a postfix-files file that does >not match what the package delivers. On those systems you may >need to edit /usr/libexec/postfix/postfix-files to remove any >lines pertaining to files that are not delivered with the package.
Thanks, Victor. Now my plate is truly overflowing! :-) Lots to learn and catch up with. I'm running Postfix on a Red Hat Fedora system, so whatever I got was what the Red Hat Package Manager gave me, which is how I wound up with 2.10.5. I'll try the upgrade path and see how it goes from there.
