[Dovecot] Configure Dovecot For IMAP Only?

[Tom Talpey]

The Upgrading page has lots of information on this, and the "doveconf"
command listed at the very top of that page worked great for me to 
create a new dovecot.conf. It produces lots of commentary to help sort
things out.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0


On 3/23/2011 3:21 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Kendall Shaw<kshaw at kendallshaw.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 13:20 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote:
>>> I've install Dovecot 2.0.11-1 on my Linux server and all the guides
>>> and tutorials I've found on Google don't work since I'm running 2.x
>>> and it seems most guides were done with 1.x.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Can anyone please tell me what I need to add to get this very basic
>>> IMAP server up and running?
>>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
>
> I did see that and I guess I don't really see a template for
> parameters needed in the configuration. Is there nothing on the Wiki
> or anywhere that I could just use as a configuration file template? My
> old 1.x config was very small and simple:
>
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> mail_location = maildir:~/mail
> passdb {
>    driver = pam
> }
> protocols = imap
> service auth {
>    unix_listener auth-client {
>      group = postfix
>      mode = 0660
>      user = postfix
>    }
>    user = root
> }
> ssl_cert =</some/dir/cert.pem
> ssl_key =</some/dir/key.pem
> userdb {
>    driver = passwd
> }
> #protocol imap {
> #  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>
> I just had users authenticating via PAM, using TLS, and connecting on
> IMAP only. The Wiki gives great info but doesn't help me generate a
> dovecot.conf file from what I can see. It does a great job of
> explaining all possible scenarios for many platforms. Is my
> configuration above not correct for Dovecot 2.0.11?