On 24 May 2013 20:08, Benny Pedersen <me@junc.eu> wrote:

Simon B skrev den 2013-05-24 18:32:

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In an unscheduled maintenance window next week, I will have the opportunity to upgrade to 2.x should I wish to do and provided I can get it working on stage first.

+1, i would have installed 2.x if it was first time install of dovecot, i would keep 1.x until i need a new server, since 1.x is all i need, and wiki page for 1.x still exits so all is fine imho :=)

Thanks for the response Benny - the opportunity is that it's a new server :)

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My questions:

I've seen a lot on the list about the rock-solidness of 1.2 but also some people saying that some versions of 2.x better than others. Is there a recommended version - I don't need bleeding edge, I'd prefer stability, or one most of you can agree on?

imho its not just a version change, its more then that, mailstore and backend and out support and whole new config layout keeps me away from migradeing it, well when i migraded from curier-imap to dovecot i have both running the same time binded to diff localhost ips, then it was simple to use imapsync to migrade over storages for all mailboxes, but now with dovecot 1.x to 2.x its not that simple anymore

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What am I missing by not upgrading?

if 1.x is working now, then you miss nothing, no matter that dovecot 1.x is nearly not supported in any distros anymore, so i keep my 1.x ebuild on gentoo, just in case i still really need to build it again

Yeah, 1.2 is working and I never have to worry about it. The problem is I don't really see a feature list to give me an idea of whether the reward is worth the risk.

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A few months ago I tried to convert a Dovecot 1.2 config into 2.1 and wasn't very successful. Any tips on how to go about it?

its dangoryous to ask that here, most people would just say read the docs or do "dovecot -n >new.conf" with the new dovecot installed, not there fault it ends with single conf like dovecot 1.x had

Yes, that's what I did - failed spectacularly. And I've just reread it again.

suggested keep 1.x for now

Cheers. Unless anyone has anything to add, that is probably what I will do.

Simon