[imp] backends.php overwritten by "pear upgrade"

Oscar del Rio delrio at mie.utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 30 14:45:24 UTC 2012


On 10/30/12 10:31 AM, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> I did a "pear upgrade" on my IMP 6.0.0 test machine. Afterwards 
> backends.php was overwritten.
> AFAIK the config files should be preserved when upgrading - should'nt 
> there be a backends.php.dist that ist updated automatically and the 
> active copy should'nt be touched?

You should make local configuration changes in backends.local.php, not 
in backends.php.
It is documented in the file itself:

/**
  * This file specifies which mail servers IMP can login to.
  *
  * IMPORTANT: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
  * Local overrides MUST be placed in backends.local.php or backends.d/.



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