DirectAdmin Versions

Feature Information
Version Number	1.26
Finished	Yes
Type	feature
Overview	DOVECOT (Major Feature)
Description For custombuild, use this guide instead: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=143 If you don't actively change to this, dovecot will not be installed (nothing on your system related to this feature will be changed with the update) NOTE this is a one-way trip. There is no undo-script to return to mbox. It's been in testing for a while now, and has proven itself. Major improvement over the previous mail system. Old system used the mbox format. Dovecot will use Maildir. Maildir has a significant performance improvement over mbox. Users will not see any changes to their setttings or email data during this conversion. Dovecot will replace wu-imap and vm-pop3d. To convert to dovecot: 1) Update to DA 1.26.0 or higher. 2) Type: cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache ./build update ./build update_dovecot ./build dovecot ./build todovecot DO NOT ABORT the "todovecot" command. It can take a long time to convert everything. Start/restart dovecot: Linux: /sbin/service dovecot restart Debian: /etc/init.d/dovecot restart FreeBSD: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart 3) Make sure that dovecot is running. Take a few days to ensure that everything is working correctly. Once satisfied, you can clean the old mbox files by typing: echo "action=delete&value=mbox" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue