Hi Steve,

Go for FreeBSD ;) it offers Dovecot(2) via ports or via package. I always recommend ports though, due to the fact of being able to enable/disable options - but that's your choise.

Ports: cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 make install clean

or via pkg(8): pkg install dovecot2

I can allway recommend to ask your friend Google: "FreeBSD + Dovecot + Tutorial" or "FreeBSD + Dovecot + How to". According to my knowledge, it works quite the same with the other BSDs in your list. It's been a while since I worked with one of them. I sticked to FreeBSD

• For updating / maintenance of ports and packages, I recommend portmaster.
• For System binary related updates there is freebsd-update(8).

Best Regards, Leander S.

Am 25.09.14 18:14, schrieb Steve Litt:

Hi all,

I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's:

OpenBSD FreeBSD PCBSD NetBSD DragonflyBSD etc

Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile it myself?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

I run dovecot on FreeBSD and its in ports.. no issues at all and the maintainer keeps it current. On Sep 25, 2014 11:17 AM, "Steve Litt" slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:

Hi all,

I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's:

OpenBSD FreeBSD PCBSD NetBSD DragonflyBSD etc

Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile it myself?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

On 25.09.2014, at 18:14, Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:

I'm investigating several 'BSD's:

FreeBSD

One more to confirm that Dovecot and Pigeonhole are running at FreeBSD.

Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile it myself?

No need to compile, both come as ports.

But if you might be interested in testing upcoming versions, it's pretty simple to set up a mercurial repository and compile from scratch, both Dovecot and Pigeonhole.

Regards, Michael

dovecot 2.2.13 works very nicely here via pkgsrc on NetBSD.

cheers mark

I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's:

OpenBSD FreeBSD PCBSD NetBSD DragonflyBSD etc

Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile it myself?

I've successfully run Dovecot on OpenBSD since 2010 and before that for many years on FreeBSD. Never had any issues, runs just fine on both those OSs.

.jh