Ned Slider wrote on 07/20/2012 03:12 PM: > One issue I see here is that the original howto was written for CentOS-5 > with dovecot 1.x. > > The OP here is clearly using CentOS-6, which uses dovecot 2.x and no > surprises for guessing that there are a few incompatibilities between > the config files for dovecot 1 and 2. > > Personally, I'd suggest forking the original article and maintaining > separate versions for CentOS-5 and CentOS-6, or have separate sections > within the article for CentOS-5 and CentOS-6 where they differ. > > To the best of my knowledge this list never did agree a mechanism for > handling documentation differences between product versions. The danger > is that if we keep editing changes for CentOS-6 into docs for CentOS-5 > we will end up with broken useless docs. > > How do others feel this type of situation should best be handled? I'd say it should be decided on a case-by-case basis, but perhaps some general guidelines would be helpful. If differences can be easily handled by a note here and there then a separate page is probably not justified. If differences are substantial between major releases, then a fork of a new page for the later release may be the best approach. Phil