[Tickets #9745] Re: Upgrading overwrites backends.php
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Thu Mar 31 07:41:52 UTC 2011
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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9745
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Ticket | 9745
Updated By | bergonz at labs.it
Summary | Upgrading overwrites backends.php
Queue | IMP
Version | 5.0-RC2
Type | Bug
State | Not A Bug
Priority | 1. Low
Milestone |
Patch |
Owners |
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bergonz at labs.it (2011-03-31 07:41) wrote:
Being the Joe Average sysadmin whose dumbness and haste you're trying
to address, I still believe that having backends.php. renamed to
backends.php.dist is a viable solution.
I understand that in this way it would not work "out of the box" with
imap server on localhost, but:
- I have no installation with imap server on localhost (this
probably means I'm not really Joe Average)
- [Doesn't work -> do something -> works] is an annoying fact of
life Joe average can understand and is somewhat used to. In this
specific case, having to tell the mailserver location to a webmail
system can be seen as unavoidable.
- [Works -> months pass -> upgrade -> doesn't work/lose config] is
much more annoying and fosters the "Don't upgrade" school of thought,
with obvious security implications.
My derailing in the last scenario was of course a mistake, but I think
my mistake was not uncommon.
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