[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment

[James Moser]

I'll tell ya anything you wanna know...  I'm using FreeBSD 4.9, here is 
my how I currently configuered it (didn't use the ports)..

./configure --without-shadow --without-pam --without-passwd-file 
--without-static-userdb --disable-ipv6 --localstatedir=/var \
        --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/var/dovecot/ssl --with-pop3d 
--with-storages=mbox

I had the default configure options working too, I just wanted to remove 
everything I didn't need to increase performance, maybe it doesn't 
matter... I didn't see much of a change.

We are currently using mbox, and hopefully someday will be converting to 
maildir, but one step at a time...  this is actually one of the reasons 
I choose to try dovecot.

My dovecot.conf configuration is attached... mostly defaults with some 
exceptions....  if anyone has some recommendations that'd be great...  I 
have all caching turned off for Imap for other reasons, but it might 
work fine for you.




seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:26, James Moser wrote:
>  
>
>>We just started using it on a system with more than 50,000 users and it 
>>works quite nicely.   Migrating from uw-imap to dovecot caused a few 
>>problems with some user's mail clients, like Mozilla mail based clients 
>>issued command that cuased the server to respond with "Invalid mask", 
>>and Eudora's SASL AUTH doesn't seem to work with the pop server, but 
>>other than that it seems to work great.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Just b/c I'm curious (and if you want take this offlist is fine) what's
>your setup look like for this system? Do you have a whitepaper or a
>layout for it?
>
>Thanks,
>-sv
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>
>  
>

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