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QuickConfiguration for people in hurry
[:WhyDoesItNotWork:Why doesn't Dovecot work?]
[:GermanVersion:German Version]
Dovecot Wiki Contents
Generic information about mail servers
[:MailServerOverview:Overview of how everything works together]
Mail protocols: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap IMAP], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop3 POP3] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp SMTP]
[:MDA:Mail delivery agents and Sieve]
[:MailboxFormat:Mailbox formats]
[:IndexFiles:Dovecot's index files]
- [:Authentication:]
- [:Sasl: SASL]
Dovecot installation
It's a good idea to start with a simple Dovecot installation to see that everything works. After that you can start changing things one at a time, so if you run into trouble you know immediately where the problem is.
If you're in a hurry and you already know enough about mail servers, QuickConfiguration may be more helpful to you instead.
- Installing
[:CompilingSource:Compiling from sources]
[:PrebuiltBinaries:Installing prebuilt binaries]
[:FindMailLocation:Checking where mail is delivered to]
[:BasicConfiguration:Configuring Dovecot]
[:RunningDovecot:Running Dovecot]
- ["Logging"]
[:TestInstallation:Testing that everything works]
[:TestPop3Installation:Testing POP3 installation]
[:FinishBasicConfiguration:Finishing the test installation]
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- Starting guidelines
[:SystemUsers:System users]
[:VirtualUsers:Virtual users]
[:UserIds:System users used by Dovecot]
[:Authentication:Authentication configuration]
[:PasswordDatabase:Password databases]
[:UserDatabase:User databases]
[:Authentication/MultipleDatabases:Multiple authentication databases]
[:Authentication/Kerberos:Kerberos]
[:Authentication/RestrictAccess:Restricting users' access]
[:PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields:Special authentication features]
[:Authentication/MasterUsers:Master users]
[:Authentication/Caching:Caching]
[:MailLocation:Mailbox location configuration]
[:MailLocation/LocalDisk:Mails stored in local disk]
[:MailLocation/SharedDisk:Mails stored in shared filesystem] (["NFS"], clustered FS)
[:MailLocation/Maildir:Maildir configuration]
[:MailLocation/Mbox:Mbox configuration]
- ["Namespaces"]
[:SharedMailboxes:Shared mailboxes]
[:LoginProcess:Login processes and their settings]
- ["SSL"] settings and certificate creation
- ["Plugins"]
- ["Quota"]
[:ACL:Access Control Lists] (ACLs)
- [:POP3Server:Dovecot as a POP3 server]
[:LDA:Dovecot's local delivery agent]
[:PostLoginScripting:Post-login scripting]
HOWTOs, examples and tutorials
[:HowTo:HOWTOs, examples and tutorials] for different installations
[:DovecotServerInstallations:Existing Dovecot installations]
Migration from existing systems
[:Migration:From other IMAP/POP3 servers]
[:MissingMailboxes:My mailboxes are lost after migrating to Dovecot!]
[:UpgradingDovecot:Upgrading from Dovecot 0.99.x to 1.0]
[:Migration/MailFormat:Converting between mailbox formats] (mbox <-> Maildir, etc.)
Troubleshooting
[:WhyDoesItNotWork:Why doesn't Dovecot work?]
[:Logging:Finding the error message from logs]
[:Debugging/Authentication:Debugging authentication]
[:Debugging/ProcessTracing:Process tracing] is useful when Dovecot seems slow or hangs completely
[:MboxProblems:mbox errors and crashes]
[:Clients:Client issues and configuration]
[:Clients/NegativeUIDs:Negative UIDs / message sets]
[:Debugging/Thunderbird:Debugging using Thunderbird's logging]
[:TimeMovedBackwards:"Time moved backwards" error]
[http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html Sending bug reports], debugging crashes and sniffing network traffic
Tuning
[:PerformanceTuning:Performance tuning]
[:SecurityTuning:Security tuning]
- ["Chrooting"]
Reference
[:MainConfig:Full configuration file reference] (automatically updated from dovecot-example.conf)
[:CommandLine:Command line arguments]
[:Design:Dovecot's design]
- ["Authentication Protocol"]
[:Clients:Client issues and configuration]
Misc
[:CoreFeatures:Current features and roadmap] / [:DovecotFeatures:another features page] (These need to be merged somehow)
- ["Testimonials"]
[:Iptables:Listening on Additional Ports] using: IP Tables or socat
OrphanedPages (that are not linked to by other pages)
QuestionsAndAnswers (the contents of this page should mostly be moved elsewhere)