I believe so. I routinely just copy the imap, imap-login (and optionally pop3, pop3-login) dovecot-auth and dovecot binaries (all but the last in the libexec directory, the last in the sbin directory) and dovecot.conf (in the etc directory).
You'll also need ssl_build_param (hardcoded to be in the libexec directory, I think, all the other paths can be specified in the conf file) if you use SSL/TLS.
Dovecot is probably better run as a standalone daemon rather than under inetd (the latter has been broken in the past, but I think I remember seeing somewhere that it has been fixed in the latest betas).
Best Wishes, Chris
Stewart Dean wrote:
Hmmm, hadn't thought of RPM. But I would like a direct answer to my question, which was: Can I just tar up everything in a dovecot-only prefix directory (defined in the invocation of configure) when the make and make install is done, and then untar/extract it in a directory of the same name over on another machine with the same OS, patches and OpenSSL? Are there Dovecot dependencies outside prefix directory.
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