• FrontPage

Welcome to the Dovecot Wiki

• Back to [http://www.dovecot.org/ Dovecot homepage]

• QuickConfiguration for people in hurry

• [:WhyDoesItNotWork:Why doesn't Dovecot work?]

• [:GermanVersion:German Version]

Dovecot Wiki Contents

TableOfContents

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.

1. Installing

   • [:CompilingSource:Compiling from sources]

   • [:PrebuiltBinaries:Installing prebuilt binaries]

2. [:FindMailLocation:Checking where mail is delivered to]

3. [:BasicConfiguration:Configuring Dovecot]

4. [:RunningDovecot:Running Dovecot]

5. ["Logging"]

6. [:TestInstallation:Testing that everything works]

   • [:TestPop3Installation:Testing POP3 installation]

7. [:FinishBasicConfiguration:Finishing the test installation]

=

• 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)