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How to setup Dovecot
- Audience: Advanced E-Mail setup
- Requires: MacPorts >=1.6, mail/dovecot, shells/zsh-devel
Introduction
Dovecot is a simple IMAP server which uses the standart maildir file format for storrage.
Installation
Install dovecot with
port install dovecot
Configuration
Note: Du not use any of the attached files without checking / changing them with you favourite text editor.
Step 1: create user
Dovecot will drop root privileges when they are not needed any more so you need to create an user and group for dovecot to run with. You can use the Make_Dovecot_Directories.command to do so.
Step 2: create directories
Dovecot need to directories to work with - one to store run status, one where the mail is stored. See howto/SetupPostfix on how to set up postfix to make incoming mail available to dovecot. You can use the Make_Dovecot_Directories.command to do so.
Step 3: create certificates
Dovecot supports encrypted connections and while in a local network it might not be necessary you will still need to create certificate files. You can use Make_Dovecot_Directories.command together with dovecot-openssl.cnf to create the certificates. Remember to change dovecot-openssl.cnf - there should be no "my_" left in the file and both files need to be in the same directory.
Step 4: set-up configuration
Next you need to set up dovecot.conf. You find the file in /opt/local/etc
. As a starting point you can use dovecot.conf together with passwd.dovecot and userdb.dovecot. You will need to add all your mail user to the passwd.dovecot and userdb.dovecot.
The separate user and password files are needed since OSX does not use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
Step 5: starting the server
Step 6: testing the server
Optional Parts
Instead of using separate user and password files you can try set-up LDAP.
Attachments (8)
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Make_Dovecot_Certificates.command (992 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Z-Shell script to create dovecot certificate
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Make_Dovecot_User.command (692 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Z-Shell script to create dovecot user and group.
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dovecot-openssl.cnf (634 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
OpenSLL configuration for dovcot
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dovecot.conf (41.8 KB) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Dovcot configuration file.
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passwd.dovecot (27 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Dovecot password file
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userdb.dovecot (34 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Dovcot user file
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Restart_Dovecot.command (304 bytes) - added by martin.osx@… 16 years ago.
Z-Shell script to restart dovecot
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Make_Dovecot_Directories.command (431 bytes) - added by jmroot (Joshua Root) 14 years ago.
Z-Shell script to create dovcot directories
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