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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY dovecot-download-http
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[201e34f] | 8 | "https://www.dovecot.org/releases/&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;/dovecot-&dovecot-version;.tar.gz">
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[8a8b05e] | 9 | <!ENTITY dovecot-download-ftp " ">
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[14dc396e] | 10 | <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum "b9e928ebba1e7a523ab5616025c9f245">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY dovecot-size "7.4 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize "207 MB">
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[9ade54a3] | 13 | <!ENTITY dovecot-time "4.8 SBU">
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[8a8b05e] | 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect1 id="dovecot" xreflabel="Dovecot-&dovecot-version;">
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| 17 | <?dbhtml filename="dovecot.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>Dovecot-&dovecot-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="dovecot">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-Dovecot">Dovecot</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to Dovecot</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | <application>Dovecot</application> is an Internet Message Access Protocol
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| 34 | (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server, written primarily with
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| 35 | security in mind. <application>Dovecot</application> aims to be
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| 36 | lightweight, fast and easy to set up as well as highly configurable and
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| 37 | easily extensible with plugins.
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| 38 | </para>
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| 39 |
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[3900716] | 40 | &lfs110a_checked;
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[8a8b05e] | 41 |
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| 42 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 43 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>
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| 46 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-http;"/>
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| 47 | </para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-ftp;"/>
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Download MD5 sum: &dovecot-md5sum;
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Download size: &dovecot-size;
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | Estimated disk space required: &dovecot-buildsize;
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | <listitem>
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| 70 | <para>
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| 71 | Estimated build time: &dovecot-time;
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </listitem>
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| 74 | </itemizedlist>
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[2c5dfc2d] | 75 |
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[a7cd6c6] | 76 |
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[8a8b05e] | 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Dovecot Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 78 |
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[904c9b2] | 79 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 80 | <para role="required">
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| 81 | <xref linkend="libtirpc"/>
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| 82 | </para>
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| 83 |
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[8a8b05e] | 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="optional">
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[3acd0b1] | 86 | <xref linkend="clucene"/>,
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[f9f13ae] | 87 | <xref linkend="icu"/>,
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[56605b9] | 88 | <xref linkend="libcap-pam"/>,
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[8a8b05e] | 89 | <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
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[5ff2b55] | 90 | <xref linkend="lua"/>,
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[3acd0b1] | 91 | <xref linkend="mariadb"/> or <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</ulink>,
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[8a8b05e] | 92 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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| 93 | <xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
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[f9f13ae] | 94 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
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| 95 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
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[194a584] | 96 | <xref linkend="xfsprogs"/>,
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[f9f13ae] | 97 | <ulink url="https://cassandra.apache.org/">Cassandra</ulink>,
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[5c0c700] | 98 | <ulink url="https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4">lz4</ulink>,
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| 99 | <ulink url="https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball_py">stemmer</ulink> and
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| 100 | <ulink url="https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/">libsodium</ulink>
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[8a8b05e] | 101 | </para>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 104 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/dovecot"/>
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| 105 | </para>
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| 106 | </sect2>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 109 | <title>Installation of Dovecot</title>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <para>
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| 112 | There should be dedicated users and groups for unprivileged Dovecot
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| 113 | processes and for processing users' logins. Issue the following commands
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| 114 | as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 115 | </para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 42 dovecot &&
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| 118 | useradd -c "Dovecot unprivileged user" -d /dev/null -u 42 \
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| 119 | -g dovecot -s /bin/false dovecot &&
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| 120 | groupadd -g 43 dovenull &&
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| 121 | useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \
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| 122 | -g dovenull -s /bin/false dovenull</userinput></screen>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <para>
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| 125 | Install <application>Dovecot</application> by running the following
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| 126 | commands:
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| 127 | </para>
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| 128 |
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[f4302700] | 129 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tirpc" \
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[2cd4158] | 130 | LDFLAGS+=" -ltirpc" \
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[6c1d0776] | 131 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[1258125] | 132 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 133 | --localstatedir=/var \
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[14dc396e] | 134 | --with-systemd=no \
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[8a8b05e] | 135 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
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| 136 | --disable-static &&
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| 137 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 138 |
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[f4302700] | 139 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tirpc" \
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[2cd4158] | 140 | LDFLAGS+=" -ltirpc" \
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[6c1d0776] | 141 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[1258125] | 142 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 143 | --localstatedir=/var \
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| 144 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
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[7c4cccc] | 145 | --disable-static &&
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[1258125] | 146 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 147 |
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[201e34f] | 148 | <para>
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[22a8219] | 149 | To test the results, issue <command>make -k check</command>. <!-- An error
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[ba54f50] | 150 | may be reported if <xref linkend="valgrind"/> is present when running
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[194a584] | 151 | the test.-->
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[ba54f50] | 152 | </para>
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[8a8b05e] | 153 |
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| 154 | <para>
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| 155 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 156 | </para>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | </sect2>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 163 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 164 |
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[27b601a] | 165 | <para>
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[f4302700] | 166 | <command>CPPFLAGS=... LDFLAGS+=...</command>: build with libtirpc
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[27b601a] | 167 | instead of the recently removed RPC code provided by GlibC.
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| 168 | </para>
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[6c1d0776] | 169 |
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[8a8b05e] | 170 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 171 | href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
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| 172 |
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[7c4cccc] | 173 | <!-- With merged-/usr, /usr/lib/systemd/system is set by default.
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[f7841987] | 174 | <para revision="systemd">
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[7c4cccc] | 175 | <parameter>- -with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system</parameter>:
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[1258125] | 176 | This switch is used to set the correct installation directory for
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| 177 | systemd units.
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| 178 | </para>
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[7c4cccc] | 179 | -->
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[1258125] | 180 |
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[8a8b05e] | 181 | <para>
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| 182 | <option>--with-ldap</option>: This switch enables
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| 183 | <application>OpenLDAP</application> authentication support.
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| 184 | </para>
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[2d9f558] | 185 |
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[8a8b05e] | 186 | <para>
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| 187 | <option>--with-pgsql</option>: This switch enables
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[22a8219] | 188 | <application>PostgreSQL</application> database support.
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[8a8b05e] | 189 | </para>
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[2d9f558] | 190 |
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[8a8b05e] | 191 | <para>
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| 192 | <option>--with-mysql</option>: This switch enables
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[22a8219] | 193 | <application>MySQL</application> database support.
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[8a8b05e] | 194 | </para>
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[2d9f558] | 195 |
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[8a8b05e] | 196 | <para>
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| 197 | <option>--with-sqlite</option>: This switch enables
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[22a8219] | 198 | <application>SQLite</application> database support.
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[8a8b05e] | 199 | </para>
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[2d9f558] | 200 |
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[8a8b05e] | 201 | <para>
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| 202 | <option>--with-lucene</option>: This switch enables
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| 203 | <application>CLucene</application> full text search support.
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| 204 | </para>
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[8558044] | 205 |
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[eb7de89] | 206 | <para>
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| 207 | <option>--with-lua</option>: This switch enables
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| 208 | <application>Lua</application> plugin support. This includes
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| 209 | a mail and push notification plugin.
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| 210 | </para>
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| 211 |
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[71f567d] | 212 | <!--
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[2d9f558] | 213 | <para>
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[71f567d] | 214 | <option>- -with-krb5</option>: This switch enables
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[2d9f558] | 215 | GSSAPI authentication support.
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| 216 | </para>
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[71f567d] | 217 | -->
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[8a8b05e] | 218 | </sect2>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 221 | <title>Configuring Dovecot</title>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | <sect3 id="dovecot-config">
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| 224 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <para>
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| 227 | <filename>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</filename>,
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| 228 | <filename>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</filename>, and
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| 229 | <filename>/etc/dovecot/local.conf</filename>
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| 230 | </para>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
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| 233 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-dovecot.conf">/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</primary>
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| 234 | </indexterm>
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| 235 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
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| 236 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-conf.d">/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</primary>
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| 237 | </indexterm>
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| 238 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
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| 239 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-local.conf">/etc/dovecot/local.conf</primary>
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| 240 | </indexterm>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | </sect3>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <sect3>
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| 245 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 246 |
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| 247 | <para>
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| 248 | Copy an example configuration, which you can use as a starting point:
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| 249 | </para>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cp -rv /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;/example-config/* /etc/dovecot</userinput></screen>
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| 252 |
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| 253 | <para>
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| 254 | The following configuration is a simple proof of concept with IMAP
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| 255 | service using local users for authentication and mailbox location.
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| 256 | Reading files from the <filename class="directory">conf.d</filename>
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| 257 | directory is commented out since the included example configuration
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| 258 | requires <application>OpenSSL</application> and
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| 259 | <application>Linux PAM</application>.
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| 260 | </para>
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| 261 |
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| 262 | <screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i '/^\!include / s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf &&
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| 263 | chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &&
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| 264 | cat > /etc/dovecot/local.conf << "EOF"
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| 265 | <literal>protocols = imap
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| 266 | ssl = no
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[2d9f558] | 267 | # The next line is only needed if you have no IPv6 network interfaces
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| 268 | listen = *
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[8a8b05e] | 269 | mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
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| 270 | userdb {
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| 271 | driver = passwd
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| 272 | }
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| 273 | passdb {
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| 274 | driver = shadow
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| 275 | }</literal>
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| 276 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | <para>
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| 279 | You will definitely want to read the official documentation at <ulink
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| 280 | url="http://wiki2.dovecot.org/"/> if you plan to use
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[9ade54a3] | 281 | <application>Dovecot</application> in a production environment.
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[8a8b05e] | 282 | </para>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | </sect3>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | <sect3 id="dovecot-init">
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[1258125] | 287 | <title><phrase revision="sysv">Boot Script</phrase>
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| 288 | <phrase revision="systemd">Systemd Unit</phrase></title>
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[8a8b05e] | 289 |
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[47274444] | 290 | <para revision="sysv">
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| 291 | If you want the <application>Dovecot</application>
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| 292 | server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the
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| 293 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot</filename> init script included in
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| 294 | the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.
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| 295 | </para>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | <para revision="systemd">
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| 298 | To start the <command>dovecot</command>
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| 299 | daemon at boot, enable the previously installed systemd unit with the
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| 300 | following command:
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| 301 | </para>
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[8a8b05e] | 302 |
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| 303 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-init">
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| 304 | <primary sortas="f-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
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| 305 | </indexterm>
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| 306 |
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[1258125] | 307 | <screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-dovecot</userinput></screen>
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| 308 |
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| 309 | <screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>systemctl enable dovecot</userinput></screen>
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[8a8b05e] | 310 |
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| 311 | </sect3>
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| 312 |
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| 313 | </sect2>
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| 314 |
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| 315 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 316 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 317 |
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| 318 | <segmentedlist>
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| 319 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 320 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 321 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <seglistitem>
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| 324 | <seg>
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[3d9b01d] | 325 | doveadm, doveconf, dovecot, dovecot-sysreport, and dsync (symbolic link)
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[8a8b05e] | 326 | </seg>
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| 327 | <seg>
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[4c24eb0a] | 328 | various internal plugins in
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| 329 | <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/dovecot</filename>
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[8a8b05e] | 330 | </seg>
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| 331 | <seg>
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| 332 | /etc/dovecot,
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[f9f13ae] | 333 | /usr/{include,lib,libexec,share}/dovecot and
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[8a8b05e] | 334 | /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;
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| 335 | </seg>
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| 336 | </seglistitem>
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| 337 | </segmentedlist>
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| 338 |
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| 339 | <variablelist>
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| 340 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 341 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 342 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | <varlistentry id="doveadm">
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| 345 | <term><command>doveadm</command></term>
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| 346 | <listitem>
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| 347 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 348 | is the <application>Dovecot</application> administration tool
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[8a8b05e] | 349 | </para>
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| 350 | <indexterm zone="dovecot doveadm">
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| 351 | <primary sortas="b-doveadm">doveadm</primary>
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| 352 | </indexterm>
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| 353 | </listitem>
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| 354 | </varlistentry>
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| 355 |
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| 356 | <varlistentry id="doveconf">
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| 357 | <term><command>doveconf</command></term>
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| 358 | <listitem>
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| 359 | <para>
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| 360 | is <application>Dovecot</application>'s configuration dumping
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[4c24eb0a] | 361 | utility
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[8a8b05e] | 362 | </para>
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| 363 | <indexterm zone="dovecot doveconf">
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| 364 | <primary sortas="b-doveconf">doveconf</primary>
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| 365 | </indexterm>
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| 366 | </listitem>
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| 367 | </varlistentry>
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| 368 |
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| 369 | <varlistentry id="dovecot-prog">
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| 370 | <term><command>dovecot</command></term>
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| 371 | <listitem>
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| 372 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 373 | is the IMAP and POP server
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[8a8b05e] | 374 | </para>
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| 375 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-prog">
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| 376 | <primary sortas="b-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
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| 377 | </indexterm>
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| 378 | </listitem>
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| 379 | </varlistentry>
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| 380 |
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[3d9b01d] | 381 | <varlistentry id="dovecot-sysreport">
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| 382 | <term><command>dovecot-sysreport</command></term>
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| 383 | <listitem>
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| 384 | <para>
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| 385 | prints system information that is useful to the Dovecot developers
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[4c24eb0a] | 386 | when submitting bug reports upstream
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[3d9b01d] | 387 | </para>
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| 388 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-sysreport">
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| 389 | <primary sortas="b-dovecot-sysreport">dovecot-sysreport</primary>
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| 390 | </indexterm>
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| 391 | </listitem>
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| 392 | </varlistentry>
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| 393 |
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[8a8b05e] | 394 | <varlistentry id="dsync">
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| 395 | <term><command>dsync</command></term>
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| 396 | <listitem>
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| 397 | <para>
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| 398 | is <application>Dovecot</application>'s mailbox synchronization
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[4c24eb0a] | 399 | utility
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[8a8b05e] | 400 | </para>
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| 401 | <indexterm zone="dovecot dsync">
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| 402 | <primary sortas="b-dsync">dsync</primary>
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| 403 | </indexterm>
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| 404 | </listitem>
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| 405 | </varlistentry>
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| 406 |
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| 407 |
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| 408 | </variablelist>
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| 409 |
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| 410 | </sect2>
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| 411 |
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| 412 | </sect1>
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