I just finished doing the same thing, and there really isn't any documentation specific to this. Read the documentation on the dovecot web site. Also, Timo has set up a Wiki at http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/dovewiki This was helpful, especially the "cheat sheet." Here's my setup:
On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:28 pm, Bob Hall wrote: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_chroot = yes login = imap login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot verbose_proctitle = yes valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/theclarks imap_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes
Almost everything works fine, although I'm concerned about 'imap_listen = *'. Is there any way to restrict this to just localhost? I tried 'imap_listen = localhost', but that didn't seem to work. (Ditto with 127.0.0.1). (The other problem is that KMail doesn't indicate new messages in the folder, so the only way to see if there are new messages is to click on the folder itself, but that's off-topic, I suppose.) Suggestions? :Peter
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