Migrating from the Lenny tutorial

The ISPmail tutorial is maintained since 2002. You may have followed former versions of the tutorial and now want to know how to upgrade your mail server to Squeeze properly. It is hard to provide exact instructions on what steps to go through. Here are some general hints:

Upgrade the operating system

First you should read the Debian Squeeze release notes before attempting to upgrade your system from Lenny to Squeeze.

Changing the Dovecot configuration

Squeeze uses a newer version of the Dovecot software. In the new version the "cmusieve" plugin has been renamed to "sieve" and needs to be renamed in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. Please consult /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/README.Debian after upgrading Dovecot.

Roundcube instead of Squirrelmail (optional)

You can continue to use Squirrelmail as a webmail user interface. RoundCube is just a more modern interface so if you prefer something more fancy then you may want to read the page on using RoundCube.

13 Comments

email client

roundcube link access denied.  May I suggest you consider horde instead. (much better web email client). Great work overall.

quotas

also got quota's to work with the tutorial as well.  A few changes from the lenny but not much.

roundcube tutorial

Dear Chris,

Mnay many thanks for your gr8 tutorial. you have really explained the topics very clearly and with details. I like to request you to kindly provide roundcube or squirrelmail or horde webmail configuration details which shall help newbies like me.

once again thanks and regards

Nishant