Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:19 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Dovecot packages Message-ID: <68339DB5-BBEF-4C5C-A655-06E508BE4BAE@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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Some years ago I setup a server with dovecot2 package. At that time = there were 2 dovecot packages: dovecot which had a version of 1.x and = dovecot2 which had a version of 2.x. That made sense since dovecot v2 = is quite different from v1. As time went on I was upgrading that server to FreeBSD 12-RELEASE and = just did a pkg upgrade during the upgrade process. Dovecot upgraded to = a more recent v2.x. However, it no longer worked. There were numerous = error messages logged. I thought that was strange since I had another = system with dovecot v2 running just fine. Eventually I discovered that = the two dovecot packages have changed. The working system was a dovecot = package which is now v2.y where y is significantly greater than dovecot2 = v2.x. It appears that the dovecot package is now the one that is = maintained and dovecot2 package has remained stagnant. =20 Unless you notice this interesting anomaly, you can get easily burned = like I did. I would recommend that either the dovecot2 package be = deleted, or at least kept current with the dovecot package. -- Doug
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