On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:51 +0000, Tom Lee wrote:

Hello,

I just tried dovecot-stable-20051206.tar.gz. It takes me one additional day to get it work.

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From INSTALL file, it failed to miss the following installation steps:

1. needs to create the file /etc/pam.d/dovecot
2. needs to create the directory /etc/ssl/certs/ and /etc/ssl/private/, configure doc/dovecot-openssl.cnf, chmod +x doc/mkcerts.sh doc/mkcerts.sh

Well, these are specific to your installation.. Not everyone uses PAM and many people don't want self-signed certificates.

Anyway, INSTALL file's point is to get Dovecot installed. The configuration documentation is elsewhere. The INSTALL file currently refers to doc/configuration.txt, but that's a bit out of date. Hopefully I'll manage to write some kind of newbie-user-friendly documentation to Wiki, and I'll then add a link there.

For pop3 client configuration, I wonder if it is OK for me to use:

#outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh

or dovecot can only allow one such as: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls

It's a space-separated list. Don't add comma there (I added a clarification of that to dovecot-example.conf, and also made it accept commas anyway).