[vPostMaster] Trouble using backup-and-restore method to move to new server

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:20:16PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>I've been busy but now I am trying again on anther server. I'm having a 
>problem with dovecote that I don't remember having last time.

Dovecot's config file is a moving target, so if you back up on a system
that has dovecot installed which uses one configuration file format, and
you restore on a version that uses a new configuration file format, you
will have to manually convert between the formats, or just use the one that
vPostMaster installed.

>The old version was 2.12. The new versions is 2.20 (commercial). I'd rather 
>say with the the newly installed configs and adjust them a little so I don't 
>keep old cruft in there. 

That's what you should do.

>Is the password hash the only thing that REALLY needs to be preserved from the 
>old system (throughout all these config files)?

That sounds about right.  You'll need to try setting that up and see if
anything else is unhappy, but that's the obvious thing that needs to be
preserved.

Sean
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