%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: pierre $ $Date: 2015-03-03 04:13:38 -0500 (Tue, 03 Mar 2015) $ Dovecot Dovecot is an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot aims to be lightweight, fast and easy to set up as well as highly configurable and easily extensible with plugins. &lfs77_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &dovecot-md5sum; Download size: &dovecot-size; Estimated disk space required: &dovecot-buildsize; Estimated build time: &dovecot-time; Dovecot Dependencies Optional , , , or MySQL, (for GSSAPI support), , , , , and User Notes: There should be dedicated users and groups for unprivileged Dovecot processes and for processing users' logins. Issue the following commands as the root user: groupadd -g 42 dovecot && useradd -c "Dovecot unprivileged user" -d /dev/null -u 42 \ -g dovecot -s /bin/false dovecot && groupadd -g 43 dovenull && useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \ -g dovenull -s /bin/false dovenull Install Dovecot by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \ --disable-static && make To test the results, issue make -k check. One test fails for unknown reason Now, as the root user: make install --with-ldap: This switch enables OpenLDAP authentication support. --with-pgsql: This switch enables PostgreSQL authentication support. --with-mysql: This switch enables MySQL authentication support. --with-sqlite: This switch enables SQLite authentication support. --with-lucene: This switch enables CLucene full text search support. --with-krb5: This switch enables GSSAPI authentication support. /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*, and /etc/dovecot/local.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/conf.d/* /etc/dovecot/local.conf Copy an example configuration, which you can use as a starting point: cp -rv /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;/example-config/* /etc/dovecot The following configuration is a simple proof of concept with IMAP service using local users for authentication and mailbox location. Reading files from the conf.d directory is commented out since the included example configuration requires OpenSSL and Linux PAM. sed -i '/^\!include / s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf && chmod -v 1777 /var/mail && cat > /etc/dovecot/local.conf << "EOF" protocols = imap ssl = no # The next line is only needed if you have no IPv6 network interfaces listen = * mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u userdb { driver = passwd } passdb { driver = shadow } EOF You will definitely want to read the official documentation at if you plan to use Dovecot in production environment. If you want the Dovecot server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot init script included in the package. dovecot make install-dovecot Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories doveadm, doveconf, dovecot, dsync, and various internal programs various internal plugins /etc/dovecot, /usr/include/dovecot, /usr/lib/dovecot, /usr/libexec/dovecot, and /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; Short Descriptions doveadm is the Dovecot administration tool. doveadm doveconf is Dovecot's configuration dumping utility. doveconf dovecot is the IMAP and POP server. dovecot dsync is Dovecot's mailbox synchronization utility. dsync