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I am using ubuntu 12.04 and dovecot version is 1.2.9, I want to upgrade my dovecot version from 1.2.9 to 2.1.7

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What's your question? Have you tried doing the upgrade? – D_Bye Jun 26 '12 at 7:08
yes. but remember 1.2.9 version is running on server and just want to upgrade 2.1.7 – Jahanzeb Jun 26 '12 at 7:33
Again, what is your question? You are not asking anything. It is just a statement. – D_Bye Jun 26 '12 at 8:32
Dear, How can i upgrade dovecot version, currently using 1.2.9 and want to update it on 2.1.7 – Jahanzeb Jun 26 '12 at 9:25
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wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading – D_Bye Jun 26 '12 at 9:34
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If you do not want to install dovecot from source, first search for a available backport of your package (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports).

If there is no backport available for your version, you can also try to install a version from a later version and resolve the dependencies by hand.

Download your file from http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/dovecot-core and then do sudo dpkg -i dovecot-core_2.1.7-1ubuntu1_i386.deb. You may also look into apt pinning for that.

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+1 for solving by Ubuntu repository... – Jan Marek Jun 26 '12 at 12:16
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Run this:

wget http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dovecot-2.1.7.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
dovecot --version
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