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20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)20:15, 25 June 2007 (CDT)[[User:Admin|Admin]]Compiling Dovecot From Sources:=== Compiling Dovecot From Sources: ===Redhat/Fedora=== Redhat/Fedora ====== SysV Init Runlevels ===*redhat: /etc/rc.d/init.d*trustix: /etc/init.dInstall the init script in the appropriate init.d directory for your distribution. Now create the symlinks and so on with chkconfig. chkconfig --add dovecotVerify that dovecot was added to the correct runlevels /etc/init.d# chkconfig --list|grep dovecot Right now everything is K's dovecot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off chkconfig --level 345 dovecot onNow dovecot will startup with the system=== Dovecot 'run as' User ===create a separate dovecot user which doesn't have access to anything. It should also have it's own group where no-one else belongs to. dovecot user isn't used for any kind of mail processing - don't store users' mails as dovecot, and don't put dovecot to mail group.For Trustix and Redhat the following should be ok: groupadd -g 97 -r dovecot useradd -d /no/dir -g dovecot -M -u 97 -r -s /bin/false dovecot=== Misc Notes From Other Sources ===dovecot. `/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot start` and `chkconfig dovecot add`. Worked with zero configuration although at first I could not see my folders on the server so I had a bit more configuration of imapd to do. I am not acutally sure how I got dovecot/Thunderbird to talk together completely. I had some strange group ownerhip bits in my mail files so fixing those might have helped. The changes I put into /etc/dovecot.conf included the following, to inform it that I have Mail subdirs in user home dirs to contain IMAP mail and about a couple other technical details: protocols = imaps #dga imap_listen = [::] imap_listen = * #dga default_mail_env = default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u #dga mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_check_interval = 60== Visit these updated and related pages ==* [[Dovecot and Postfix Hybrid Authentication Example]]* [[Understand Postfix Account Types]][[Category:Computer_Technology]][[Category:Linux]]