View source for Dovecot

[http://www.dovecot.org/ Homepage]

=Docs=
*http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/
*http://wiki.dovecot.org/
*[[dovecot postfix ldap]]
*[[Dovecot on debian]]

=Important settings=
 /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
 /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
 



=Dovecot and ldap=
*[[Dovecot postfix ldap]]
*http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP
*http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/#etc-dovecot-dovecot-conf
*http://manurevah.com/blah/index.php/linux/pysieved-on-workaround.php
*http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html

=Postfix=
==Using deliver with postfix==
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix

=ManageSieve=
*[[Sieve]]
*careful with dovecot-sieve on freebsd, it links against the stable dovecot, not dovecot-devel
*http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve
*http://www.iana.org/assignments/sieve-extensions
*http://libsieve-php.exit0.net/

Squirrelmail has [[avelsieve]]

=Testing=
==Show configuration==
 dovecot -n

 deliver

=SSL=
==On FreeBSD==
/usr/local/share/dovecot/

http://www.freebsddiary.org/dovecot.php

=FAQ=
==the variables: %u, %h, %n etc==
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables

==lmtp or lda?==
lmtp

==quota-warning and selinux==
Create file quotawarning.te:

 module dovecot-quota-warning 1.0;

 require {
        type dovecot_t;
        type dovecot_deliver_exec_t;
        class file { read execute open getattr execute_no_trans };
 }

 #============= dovecot_t ==============
 allow dovecot_t dovecot_deliver_exec_t:file { read execute open getattr execute_no_trans };

Then run:

 semodule_package -o quotawarning.pp -m quotawarning.mod
 semodule -i quotawarning.pp


==quota check policy service==
https://sys4.de/en/blog/2013/04/08/postfix-dovecot-mailbox-quota/

==run in foreground==
 dovecot -F

==dovecot-ltmp: User doesn't exist==
After adding user or virtuser, sometimes lmtp doesn't pick it up.
 postfix reload

==Fatal: Namespace initialization failed==

==Where's the bugtracker?==
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-January/018786.html

==What's that strange attachment in quota bounces?==
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3798

==i changed clock and it crashed==
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

==user XXX is missing UID (set mail_uid)==
System fails to look up UID for user, configure a userdb besides the password db

==check LMTP socket==
  socat - UNIX:/var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp

==Error: quota: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied==
check/set owner, group and mode in service quota-warning section

=Notes=
==getenv/setenv/clearenv==
There's been issues on several OSes that didn't agree on env related functions, see lib/env-util.c
See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/freebsd-versions.html putenv etc