mail/dovecot24 2.4.5_2 FreeBSD

Secure, fast and powerful IMAP and POP3 server

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-08-20
Last update: 2026-09-25
Commit: 1f63a5459d
License: LGPL21, MIT
Categories: mail
Package size: 5008.9 KiB, 27583.4 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

FreeBSD

mail/dovecot24

2.4.5_2

MidnightBSD

mail/dovecot24

2.4.5_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install dovecot24

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot24/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	dovecot24>0:mail/dovecot24

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

2.4.5_2

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

2.4.5_2

n/a

2.4.5_2

FreeBSD:15:latest

2.4.5_2

n/a

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

2.4.5_2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

2.4.5_2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 4

libpcre2-32.so : devel/pcre2
libstemmer.so : textproc/snowballstemmer
libxapian.so : databases/xapian-core
libzstd.so : archivers/zstd

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 17

Run dependencies 15

Required by 2

Configuration

Options name: mail_dovecot

Option

Default

Description

DOCS

Build and/or install documentation

EXAMPLES

Build and/or install examples

GSSAPI_BASE

off

Use GSSAPI from base

GSSAPI_HEIMDAL

off

Use Heimdal GSSAPI from security/heimdal

GSSAPI_MIT

off

Use MIT GSSAPI from security/krb5

GSSAPI_NONE

Build without GSSAPI support

ICU

off

Use libicu for FTS unicode normalization

IMAP4REV2

off

Enable experimental IMAP4REV2 support

LIBSODIUM

off

Support libsodium based crypts (ARGON2I/ARGON2ID)

LIBUNWIND

off

Get backtraces using libunwind

LUA

Lua scripting language support

LZ4

off

LZ4 compression support

SOLR

off

Solr FTS support (untested and NOT recommended)

TEXTCAT

off

Libexttextcat FTS support

UTF8

Enable experimental SMTPUTF8 support

USES: cpe gmake iconv libtool perl5 pkgconfig python shebangfix ssl
Service scripts: dovecot
Conflicts with: dovecot dovecot-cdb dovecot-ldap dovecot-mysql dovecot-pgsql dovecot-sqlite3
Flavors: dovecot24-cdb-2.4.5_2, dovecot24-ldap-2.4.5_2, dovecot24-mysql-2.4.5_2, dovecot24-pgsql-2.4.5_2, dovecot24-sqlite3-2.4.5_2

Message after installing

Please check the configuration file at /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
 and edit it as desired.
 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 breaking changes in Dovecot 2.4.x. If you  are
 upgrading from earlier version of Dovecot, make sure to read
 the upgrade guide and adjust the configuration accordingly:

   * https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.5/installation/upgrade/overview.html

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

Files

Manual pages 53

deliver(1)
doveadm(1)
doveadm-acl(1)
doveadm-altmove(1)
doveadm-auth(1)
doveadm-backup(1)
doveadm-compress-connect(1)
doveadm-config(1)
doveadm-copy(1)
doveadm-deduplicate(1)
doveadm-dict(1)
doveadm-dump(1)
doveadm-exec(1)
doveadm-expunge(1)
doveadm-fetch(1)
doveadm-flags(1)
doveadm-force-resync(1)
doveadm-fs(1)
doveadm-fts(1)
doveadm-help(1)
doveadm-import(1)
doveadm-index(1)
doveadm-indexer(1)
doveadm-instance(1)
doveadm-kick(1)
doveadm-log(1)
doveadm-mail-dict(1)
doveadm-mail-fs(1)
doveadm-mailbox(1)
doveadm-mailbox-cryptokey(1)
doveadm-move(1)
doveadm-penalty(1)
doveadm-process-status(1)
doveadm-proxy(1)
doveadm-purge(1)
doveadm-pw(1)
doveadm-quota(1)
doveadm-rebuild(1)
doveadm-reload(1)
doveadm-save(1)
doveadm-search(1)
doveadm-search-query(7)
doveadm-service-status(1)
doveadm-service-stop(1)
doveadm-stats(1)
doveadm-stop(1)
doveadm-sync(1)
doveadm-user(1)
doveadm-who(1)
doveconf(1)
dovecot(1)
dovecot-lda(1)
dovecot-sysreport(1)

pkg-plist 879

bin/doveadm
bin/doveconf
bin/dovecot-sysreport
etc/dovecot24/dovecot.conf.sample
include/dovecot/abnf.h
include/dovecot/acl-api-private.h
include/dovecot/acl-api.h
include/dovecot/acl-cache.h
include/dovecot/acl-lookup-dict.h
include/dovecot/acl-plugin.h
include/dovecot/acl-rights.h
include/dovecot/acl-settings.h
include/dovecot/acl-storage.h
include/dovecot/anvil-client.h
include/dovecot/aqueue.h
include/dovecot/array-decl.h
include/dovecot/array.h
include/dovecot/askpass.h
include/dovecot/auth-cache.h
include/dovecot/auth-client-connection.h
include/dovecot/auth-client-interface.h
include/dovecot/auth-client-private.h
include/dovecot/auth-client.h
include/dovecot/auth-common.h
include/dovecot/auth-digest.h
include/dovecot/auth-fields.h
include/dovecot/auth-gs2.h
include/dovecot/auth-gssapi.h
include/dovecot/auth-master-connection.h
include/dovecot/auth-master-private.h
include/dovecot/auth-master.h
include/dovecot/auth-penalty.h
include/dovecot/auth-policy.h
include/dovecot/auth-proxy.h
include/dovecot/auth-request-handler-private.h
include/dovecot/auth-request-handler.h
include/dovecot/auth-request-var-expand.h
include/dovecot/auth-request.h
include/dovecot/auth-sasl-common.h
include/dovecot/auth-sasl-gssapi.h
include/dovecot/auth-sasl-oauth2.h
include/dovecot/auth-sasl.h
include/dovecot/auth-scram-client.h
include/dovecot/auth-scram-server.h
include/dovecot/auth-scram.h
include/dovecot/auth-settings.h
include/dovecot/auth-token.h
include/dovecot/auth-worker-connection.h
include/dovecot/auth-worker-server.h
include/dovecot/auth.h
include/dovecot/backtrace-string.h
include/dovecot/base32.h
include/dovecot/base64.h
include/dovecot/bitmap.h
include/dovecot/bits.h
include/dovecot/bsearch-insert-pos.h
include/dovecot/buffer.h
include/dovecot/byteorder.h
include/dovecot/charset-utf8-private.h
include/dovecot/charset-utf8.h
include/dovecot/child-wait.h
include/dovecot/client-common.h
include/dovecot/compat.h
include/dovecot/compression.h
include/dovecot/config-filter.h
include/dovecot/config-parser-private.h
include/dovecot/config-parser.h
include/dovecot/config-request.h
include/dovecot/config.h
include/dovecot/connection.h
include/dovecot/cpu-count.h
include/dovecot/cpu-limit.h
include/dovecot/crc32.h
include/dovecot/data-stack.h
include/dovecot/db-ldap-sasl.h
include/dovecot/db-ldap-settings.h
include/dovecot/db-ldap.h
include/dovecot/db-oauth2.h
include/dovecot/db-passwd-file.h
include/dovecot/db-sql.h
include/dovecot/dbox-attachment.h
include/dovecot/dbox-file.h
include/dovecot/dbox-mail.h
include/dovecot/dbox-save.h
include/dovecot/dbox-storage.h
include/dovecot/dcrypt-iostream.h
include/dovecot/dcrypt-private.h
include/dovecot/dcrypt.h
include/dovecot/dict-client.h
include/dovecot/dict-lua-private.h
include/dovecot/dict-lua.h
include/dovecot/dict-private.h
include/dovecot/dict-transaction-memory.h
include/dovecot/dict.h
include/dovecot/dlua-compat.h
include/dovecot/dlua-script-private.h
include/dovecot/dlua-script.h
include/dovecot/dlua-wrapper.h
include/dovecot/dns-client-cache.h
include/dovecot/dns-lookup.h

The first 100 are listed.

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File

Size

SHA256

dovecot-2.4.5.tar.gz

8.747733e+06

868c2686a61b5f8e00a3e4721789b1ab46e6528fd773a5fbed07a6ecba7731e6

5100f0fd576d0600c3f8ad7bb056ae08235cab11.patch

2519

b9b38421d3cb92aa0e111d3b21bcd67d28993202628c2f92aa4fe4387259aaef

Master sites 1

https://dovecot.org/releases/2.4/

Commit history 4

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-25

1f63a5459d

Jordan Ostreff

mail/dovecot24: Fix runtime problems

1. Backport upstream patch that fixes anvil errors/crashes problems related to logged "handshake with duplicate service" messages. 2. Add service reload support to rc.d script. PR: 298769 [1], 298719 [2] Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) Co-authored-by: Herbert J. Skuhra <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Alexander Wittig <[email protected]>

2026-09-07

0d98e8eb33

Jordan Ostreff

mail/dovecot24: Install imap-hibernate unconditionally

In Dovecot 2.4.5, upstream updated configure to build imap-hibernate when kqueue notify is available (commit 6859a3aaf0e1). Since kqueue is natively supported on all FreeBSD releases, imap-hibernate now builds unconditionally across all versions. Remove the obsolete OSVERSION < 1500000 check from the Makefile and uncomment the imap-hibernate binary in pkg-plist so it gets properly packaged on FreeBSD 14. PR: 298059 Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit)

2026-08-30

34ee419a2e

Jordan Ostreff

mail/dovecot24: update 2.4.4 -> 2.4.5, fix build

PR: 298045 Changes: https://github.com/dovecot/core/releases/tag/2.4.5 Author: Jordan Ostreff <[email protected]>

2026-08-20

69eaa4454a

Jordan Ostreff

mail/dovecot24: new port

- adding the new version 2.4 of dovecot, while keeping 2.3 in place - please note that the config syntax has changed between 2.3 and 2.4 and needs to be manually adapted, so use/upgrade with care PR: 286695 Reported by: Ian Dickens <[email protected]> Author: Jordan Ostreff <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Sebastian Oswald <[email protected]> Discussed with: Sebastian Oswald <[email protected]>, Eugene R <[email protected]>, Herbert J. Skuhra <[email protected]>, Christos Chatzaras <[email protected]>, and others Tested by: Jordan Ostreff <[email protected]>