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What breaks when you upgrade Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4?

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Enough to stop mail delivery during what looked like routine maintenance. Version 2.4 carries breaking configuration changes, and on infrastructure that processes thousands of messages a day that means client access halts rather than degrades. I wrote up what broke and how it was resolved, on Debian Stable.

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