Mar 28, 2018 · Dovecot is among the best performing IMAP servers while still supporting the standard mbox and Maildir formats. The mailboxes are transparently indexed, which gives Dovecot its good performance while still providing full …

Dovecot is an open source email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.

Dovecot CE comes with Docker images published at https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot. Minimal setup To run Dovecot you can start it with:

The Dovecot team provides packages of Dovecot components for various Linux distributions. Details can be found at: https://repo.dovecot.org/ . Compiling Dovecot From Source

Dovecot allows using non-Dovecot LDA to deliver mails to mbox and Maildir files. Dovecot adds the newly delivered mails to its index files, which is relatively fast operation. However, IMAP clients often want to first fetch some of the email headers and other metadata.

Dovecot configuration version. It uses the same versioning as Dovecot in general, e.g. 3.0.5. This must be the first setting in the configuration file. It specifies the configuration syntax, the used setting names and the expected default values.

This is the recommended way of installing Dovecot/Pigeonhole. Pigeonhole is the name of the project that adds support for the Sieve language ( RFC 5228 ) and the ManageSieve protocol ( RFC 5804 ) to Dovecot ( dovecot(1) ).

Dovecot Limits Dovecot contains various configurable and built-in resource limits designed to prevent denial of service situations. This page lists those limits.

The Dovecot submission service is structured very much like the imap and pop3 services, meaning that it has separate pre-login and post-login services called submission-login and submission respectively.

Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4 Upgrade Path Before upgrading, please look at the list of removed features carefully. If you are doing in-place upgrade, ensure that you first upgrade to latest 2.3 release, and then upgrade to 2.4. Alternatively, you can migrate your data to new setup. Dovecot CE Configuration Changes