Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-18 Thread Steven Varco
Hi Shawn I recently did a similar upgrade project of a dovecot-postfix-amavis Mailserver from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. What I did was first creating a new test-server with the new OS. Than I copied all the maildirs from the productive server to the testing server, so I could simulate the upgrade w

Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-09 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 7/8/2021 7:46 AM, Oscar del Rio wrote: It would also be a good opportunity to switch to using the official Dovecot repositories. https://repo.dovecot.org/ I tried this, and at first couldn't figure out why the packages were in a broken state that wouldn't install. Then I realized I had ad

Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
It's generally a good thing to be reminded to upgrade. Regardless of whether or not a certain release is considered Long Term Service — if there are major unresolved problems with the platform or supported software that are not fixed — then it will be necessary and appropriate to upgrade as soon

Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-08 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 2021-07-08 1:29 a.m., Plutocrat wrote: First thing to note is that Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Service release, and will be supported until 2023. So no matter how naggy Ubuntu is, you don't actually HAVE to upgrade at this point. You may disable the prompt if if bothers you: just remove or c

Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-07 Thread Plutocrat
First thing to note is that Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Service release, and will be supported until 2023. So no matter how naggy Ubuntu is, you don't actually HAVE to upgrade at this point. You may disable the prompt if if bothers you: just remove or comment out the relevant file in /etc/updat