[Dovecot] Can I install in the following fashion?

[Chris Wakelin]

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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