[Dovecot] dovecot howto?

Romer Ventura rventura at h-st.com
Wed Dec 10 20:43:37 EET 2008


Those 2 links are too much.

Go here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo

And here: http://www.linuxmail.info/   <--- Dovecot + postfix

That's all you need.


On 12/10/08 11:49 AM, "Andy Howell" <AndyHowell at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Olaf Zaplinski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> is there a *simple* HOWTO that explains a simple postfix+dovecot setup?
>> Up to now, I used postfix+cyrus, worked fine. But I do not get
>> postfix+dovecot to work. Currently, all emails go to /dev/null.
>> 
>> What really would help me is a dovecot lmtp server. Is there any?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Olaf
>> 
>> 
>> postfix main.cf:
>> 
>> # -- delivery options
>> #
>> local_recipient_maps =
>> virtual_alias_maps = btree:/etc/postfix/virtual
>> alias_maps = btree:/etc/postfix/aliases
>> alias_database = btree:/etc/postfix/aliases
>> # mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
>> mailbox_transport = dovecot
>> 
>> 
>> postfix master.cf:
>> 
>> dovecot         unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>>         flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f
>> ${sender} -d ${recipient}
>> 
>> 
>> dovecot.conf:
>> 
>> mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u
>> namespace private {
>>    separator = '/'
>>    inbox = yes
>> }
>> 
>> auth default {
>>   mechanisms = cram-md5 plain
>>   verbose = yes
>>   passdb passwd-file {
>>     args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
>>   }
>>   userdb static {
>>     args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
>>   }
>>   socket listen {
>>     client {
>>       # Assuming the default Postfix $queue_directory setting
>>       path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>>       mode = 0660
>>       # Assuming the default Postfix user and group
>>       user = postfix
>>       group = postfix
>>     }
>>   }
>> }
>> 
> 
> Olaf,
> 
> I'm quite new to both postfix and dovecot. This probably does not qualify as
> "simple" but 
> I found this link helpful:
> 
> http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
> 
> Another useful one:
> 
> http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/spamfilter20061118.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 





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