mail/dovecot 2.3.21.1_2 DragonFly

Secure, fast and powerful IMAP and POP3 server

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: LGPL21, MIT
Categories: mail
Package size: 4546.6 KiB, 23581.6 KiB installed

Description

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 installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.

Dovecot is high-performing, self-optimizing, self-healing, and easily extensible. It includes IMAP4rev1 and POP3 support. IPv6, SSL and TLS are supported. It supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1_2

FreeBSD

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1_3

OpenBSD

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1p3v0

NetBSD

mail/dovecot2

2.3.21.1

MidnightBSD

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1_2

HardenedBSD

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1_3

GhostBSD

mail/dovecot

2.3.21.1_3

Install

Binary package:

pkg install dovecot

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/mail/dovecot && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

Required by 6

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none
Flavors: dovecot-mysql-2.3.21.1_2, dovecot-pgsql-2.3.21.1_2

Message after installing

You must create the configuration files yourself. Copy them over
 to /usr/local/etc/dovecot and edit them as desired:

 	cp -R /usr/local/etc/dovecot/example-config/* \
 		/usr/local/etc/dovecot

 The default configuration includes IMAP and POP3 services, will
 authenticate users agains the system's passwd file, and will use
 the default /var/mail/$USER mbox files.

 Next, enable dovecot in /etc/rc.conf:

 	dovecot_enable="YES"


 To avoid a risk of mailbox corruption, do not set the
 security.bsd.see_other_uids or .see_other_gids sysctls to 0
 if Dovecot is storing mail for multiple concurrent users (PR 218392).

 Similarly, setting sysctls security.bsd.hardlink_check_uid or
 security.bsd.hardlink_check_gid to 1 might result in non-working
 mailboxes, depending on what mailbox locking mechanism is used
 (PR 242223).

 If you want to be able to search within attachments using the
 decode2text plugin, you'll need to install textproc/catdoc, and
 one of graphics/xpdf or graphics/poppler-utils.


 There are some potentially breaking changes in Dovecot 2.3. If you
 are upgrading from Dovecot 2.2:
 
   * https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/installation_guide/upgrading/from-2.2-to-2.3/
   * Merge the configuration file changes from
     /usr/local/etc/dovecot/examples-config/

If you are removing dovecot permanently, you should 'rm -rf /var/db/dovecot' to
clear out any remaining data.