[Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

[Eric Shubert]

Marcus Linnenkohl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;)
> 
> I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. 
> 
> I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call theire mails.
> 
> I think IMAP is the right protokoll but it should be safe, so i think IMAPs is better.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not familiar with Dovecot, so I need your help.
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Marcus

Is this going to be a complete email solution (including an MTA), or 
simply an email store?

Are you running other services on your server, or will it be dedicated 
to email? If the later, you might want to look into 
http://qmailtoaster.com/. While QMT does not yet include dovecot, it 
soon will, and configuring it to use dovecot in the meantime is not 
difficult. There are more than a handful of people with QMT servers who 
are now using dovecot.

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-Eric 'shubes'