dovecot

Installing Dovecot and sieve on a vpopmail + qmail server

Overview Installing Configuring Download my dovecot's config files dovecot.conf 10-auth.conf auth-sql.conf.ext 10-director.conf 10-logging.conf Logrotate 10-mail.conf 10-master.conf 10-ssl.conf 15-lda.conf 15-mailboxes.conf 20-imap.conf 20-lmtp.conf 20-pop3.conf 90-plugin.conf 90-quota.conf Overview Info: http://www.dovecot.org/ Documentation: http://wiki2.dovecot.org Mail Server overview: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview Download: http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/ Version: dovecot-2.3.1 Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large...

Sieve interpreter & Dovecot ManageSieve

The Pigeonhole project provides Sieve support as a plugin for Dovecot's Local Delivery Agent (LDA) and also for its LMTP service. The plugin implements a Sieve interpreter, which filters incoming messages using a script specified in the Sieve language. The...

qmail + vpopmail + Dovecot | Roberto's qmail notes

Quoting D. J. Bernstein definition qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts References http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org Life with qmail Bill Shupp's toaster (officially dead) Michael Bowe's webmail server guide (now obsolete) qmailwiki.org Erwin Hoffman's "qmail support" site John Simpson's "qmail...

Expunging expired Junk and Trash emails with dovecot

More info: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire Of course we want to delete old Junk and Trash emails to save hard disk space. To do that, with dovecot 2.0, you don't have to enable the expire-plugin, unless you have to manage a very big server,...

Testing Dovecot

Testing POP3 Remember that plain text login is allowed only from localhost. # telnet [your-IP] 110 Trying [your-IP]... Connected to [your-IP]. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user test@yourdomain.net +OK pass [PASSWORD] +OK Logged in. quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host. Check also the secure POP connection on port 995 openssl...

Running Dovecot

I have adjusted the startup script distributed by Dovecot and saved it as /usr/local/bin/dovecotctl: #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: dovecot # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $time # Required-Stop:...

qmail-inject sieve vacation/reject messages trouble

Author of the patch: Stéphane Cottin qmail-inject-null-sender patch Last week me and a couple of friends of this blog dealed with a trouble which engaged us for many hours, until Stéphane Cottin sent me this patch after 3 minutes from my request! The...