On 14.12.2006, at 0.05, Aaron J Weber wrote:

I can't seem to find a succinct listing of the packages (and
optional packages) required to compile dovecot. I see references
to various RDBMS's, but nothing that says I actually _require_ one,
etc. I see references to openssl, but similarly, I don't see that
it's technically required.

Is there a link I'm missing that indicates the pre-conditions (pre- installed/configured software) before compiling and linking dovecot?

Dovecot doesn't require any external libraries, but if you want
things like SQL or LDAP authentication, you'll need libraries for those.

Maybe the only pretty useful, but not required, library is iconv. I
think most systems have that installed by default anyway. It adds
support for searching non-US-ASCII text.