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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY dovecot-download-http
8 "https://www.dovecot.org/releases/&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;/dovecot-&dovecot-version;.tar.gz">
9 <!ENTITY dovecot-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum "c4817055f4a32e10c2c7eb3d42e14736">
11 <!ENTITY dovecot-size "6.8 MB">
12 <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize "175 MB">
13 <!ENTITY dovecot-time "3.9 SBU">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="dovecot" xreflabel="Dovecot-&dovecot-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="dovecot.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>Dovecot-&dovecot-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="dovecot">
27 <primary sortas="a-Dovecot">Dovecot</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to Dovecot</title>
32
33 <para>
34 <application>Dovecot</application> is an Internet Message Access Protocol
35 (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server, written primarily with
36 security in mind. <application>Dovecot</application> aims to be
37 lightweight, fast and easy to set up as well as highly configurable and
38 easily extensible with plugins.
39 </para>
40
41 &lfs90_checked;
42
43 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
44 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
45 <listitem>
46 <para>
47 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-http;"/>
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>
52 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-ftp;"/>
53 </para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>
57 Download MD5 sum: &dovecot-md5sum;
58 </para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>
62 Download size: &dovecot-size;
63 </para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>
67 Estimated disk space required: &dovecot-buildsize;
68 </para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 Estimated build time: &dovecot-time;
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </itemizedlist>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Dovecot Dependencies</bridgehead>
78
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
80 <para role="required">
81 <xref linkend="libtirpc"/>
82 </para>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
85 <para role="optional">
86 <xref linkend="clucene"/>,
87 <xref linkend="icu"/>,
88 <xref linkend="libcap-pam"/>,
89 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
90 <xref linkend="lua"/>,
91 <xref linkend="mariadb"/> or <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</ulink>,
92 <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
93 <xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
94 <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
95 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
96 <xref linkend="xfsprogs"/>,
97 <ulink url="https://cassandra.apache.org/">Cassandra</ulink>,
98 <ulink url="https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4">lz4</ulink>, and
99 <ulink url="https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball_py">stemmer</ulink>
100 </para>
101
102 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
103 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/dovecot"/>
104 </para>
105 </sect2>
106
107 <sect2 role="installation">
108 <title>Installation of Dovecot</title>
109
110 <para>
111 There should be dedicated users and groups for unprivileged Dovecot
112 processes and for processing users' logins. Issue the following commands
113 as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
114 </para>
115
116<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 42 dovecot &amp;&amp;
117useradd -c "Dovecot unprivileged user" -d /dev/null -u 42 \
118 -g dovecot -s /bin/false dovecot &amp;&amp;
119groupadd -g 43 dovenull &amp;&amp;
120useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \
121 -g dovenull -s /bin/false dovenull</userinput></screen>
122
123 <para>
124 First, fix an issue causing a segfault in the test suite by
125 applying a sed:
126 </para>
127
128<screen><userinput>sed -e "s;#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;;&amp;\n#include &lt;crypt.h&gt;;" \
129 -i src/auth/mycrypt.c</userinput></screen>
130
131 <para>
132 Install <application>Dovecot</application> by running the following
133 commands:
134 </para>
135
136<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>CFLAGS+=" -I/usr/include/tirpc" \
137LDFLAGS+=" -ltirpc" \
138./configure --prefix=/usr \
139 --sysconfdir=/etc \
140 --localstatedir=/var \
141 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
142 --disable-static &amp;&amp;
143make</userinput></screen>
144
145<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>CFLAGS+=" -I/usr/include/tirpc" \
146LDFLAGS+=" -ltirpc" \
147./configure --prefix=/usr \
148 --sysconfdir=/etc \
149 --localstatedir=/var \
150 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
151 --disable-static \
152 --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system &amp;&amp;
153make</userinput></screen>
154
155 <para>
156 To test the results, issue <command>make -k check</command>. <!-- An error
157 may be reported if <xref linkend="valgrind"/> is present when running
158 the test.-->
159 </para>
160
161 <para>
162 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
163 </para>
164
165<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
166
167 </sect2>
168
169 <sect2 role="commands">
170 <title>Command Explanations</title>
171
172 <para><command>CFLAGS+=...LDFLAGS+=...</command>: build with libtirpc
173 instead of the recently removed RPC code provided by GlibC.</para>
174
175 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
176 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
177
178 <para revision="systemd">
179 <parameter>--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system</parameter>:
180 This switch is used to set the correct installation directory for
181 systemd units.
182 </para>
183
184 <para>
185 <option>--with-ldap</option>: This switch enables
186 <application>OpenLDAP</application> authentication support.
187 </para>
188
189 <para>
190 <option>--with-pgsql</option>: This switch enables
191 <application>PostgreSQL</application> authentication support.
192 </para>
193
194 <para>
195 <option>--with-mysql</option>: This switch enables
196 <application>MySQL</application> authentication support.
197 </para>
198
199 <para>
200 <option>--with-sqlite</option>: This switch enables
201 <application>SQLite</application> authentication support.
202 </para>
203
204 <para>
205 <option>--with-lucene</option>: This switch enables
206 <application>CLucene</application> full text search support.
207 </para>
208<!--
209 <para>
210 <option>- -with-krb5</option>: This switch enables
211 GSSAPI authentication support.
212 </para>
213-->
214 </sect2>
215
216 <sect2 role="configuration">
217 <title>Configuring Dovecot</title>
218
219 <sect3 id="dovecot-config">
220 <title>Config Files</title>
221
222 <para>
223 <filename>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</filename>,
224 <filename>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</filename>, and
225 <filename>/etc/dovecot/local.conf</filename>
226 </para>
227
228 <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
229 <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-dovecot.conf">/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
232 <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-conf.d">/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</primary>
233 </indexterm>
234 <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
235 <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-local.conf">/etc/dovecot/local.conf</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237
238 </sect3>
239
240 <sect3>
241 <title>Configuration Information</title>
242
243 <para>
244 Copy an example configuration, which you can use as a starting point:
245 </para>
246
247<screen role="root"><userinput>cp -rv /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;/example-config/* /etc/dovecot</userinput></screen>
248
249 <para>
250 The following configuration is a simple proof of concept with IMAP
251 service using local users for authentication and mailbox location.
252 Reading files from the <filename class="directory">conf.d</filename>
253 directory is commented out since the included example configuration
254 requires <application>OpenSSL</application> and
255 <application>Linux PAM</application>.
256 </para>
257
258<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i '/^\!include / s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf &amp;&amp;
259chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &amp;&amp;
260cat &gt; /etc/dovecot/local.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
261<literal>protocols = imap
262ssl = no
263# The next line is only needed if you have no IPv6 network interfaces
264listen = *
265mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
266userdb {
267 driver = passwd
268}
269passdb {
270 driver = shadow
271}</literal>
272EOF</userinput></screen>
273
274 <para>
275 You will definitely want to read the official documentation at <ulink
276 url="http://wiki2.dovecot.org/"/> if you plan to use
277 <application>Dovecot</application> in production environment.
278 </para>
279
280 </sect3>
281
282 <sect3 id="dovecot-init">
283 <title><phrase revision="sysv">Boot Script</phrase>
284 <phrase revision="systemd">Systemd Unit</phrase></title>
285
286 <para revision="sysv">If you want the <application>Dovecot</application>
287 server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the
288 <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot</filename> init script included in the
289 <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
290
291 <para revision="systemd">To start the <command>dovecot</command>
292 daemon at boot, enable the previously installed systemd unit with the
293 following command:</para>
294
295 <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-init">
296 <primary sortas="f-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
297 </indexterm>
298
299<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-dovecot</userinput></screen>
300
301<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>systemctl enable dovecot</userinput></screen>
302
303 </sect3>
304
305 </sect2>
306
307 <sect2 role="content">
308 <title>Contents</title>
309
310 <segmentedlist>
311 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
312 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
313 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
314
315 <seglistitem>
316 <seg>
317 doveadm, doveconf, dovecot, and dsync (symbolic link)
318 </seg>
319 <seg>
320 various internal plugins in <filename
321 class="directory">/usr/lib/dovecot</filename>
322 </seg>
323 <seg>
324 /etc/dovecot,
325 /usr/{include,lib,libexec,share}/dovecot and
326 /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;
327 </seg>
328 </seglistitem>
329 </segmentedlist>
330
331 <variablelist>
332 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
333 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
334 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
335
336 <varlistentry id="doveadm">
337 <term><command>doveadm</command></term>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>
340 is the <application>Dovecot</application> administration tool.
341 </para>
342 <indexterm zone="dovecot doveadm">
343 <primary sortas="b-doveadm">doveadm</primary>
344 </indexterm>
345 </listitem>
346 </varlistentry>
347
348 <varlistentry id="doveconf">
349 <term><command>doveconf</command></term>
350 <listitem>
351 <para>
352 is <application>Dovecot</application>'s configuration dumping
353 utility.
354 </para>
355 <indexterm zone="dovecot doveconf">
356 <primary sortas="b-doveconf">doveconf</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 <varlistentry id="dovecot-prog">
362 <term><command>dovecot</command></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>
365 is the IMAP and POP server.
366 </para>
367 <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-prog">
368 <primary sortas="b-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
369 </indexterm>
370 </listitem>
371 </varlistentry>
372
373 <varlistentry id="dsync">
374 <term><command>dsync</command></term>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>
377 is <application>Dovecot</application>'s mailbox synchronization
378 utility.
379 </para>
380 <indexterm zone="dovecot dsync">
381 <primary sortas="b-dsync">dsync</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385
386
387 </variablelist>
388
389 </sect2>
390
391</sect1>
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