Install/Configure Dovecot2014/05/03

	Install Dovecot to configure POP/IMAP server. POP uses 110/TCP, IMAP uses 143/TCP.
[1]	This example shows to configure to provide SASL function to Postfix.

root@mail:~#

apt-get -y install dovecot-core dovecot-pop3d dovecot-imapd

# select "No", configure later if it needs

 +-----------------------+ Configuring dovecot-core +------------------------+
 |                                                                           |
 | An SSL certificate is needed in order to use IMAP or POP3 over SSL/TLS.   |
 | No such certificate was found.                                            |
 |                                                                           |
 | Please choose whether you want to create one now. This will then be a     |
 | self-signed certificate.                                                  |
 |                                                                           |
 | If you choose not to create a certificate, please adapt Dovecot's         |
 | configuration file (/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf).                     |
 |                                                                           |
 | Create a self-signed SSL certificate?                                     |
 |                                                                           |
 |                    <Yes>                       <No>                       |
 |                                                                           |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

root@mail:~#

vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# line 30: change ( if not listen IPv6 port )

listen =

root@mail:~#

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf

# line 10: uncomment and change ( allow plain text auth )

disable_plaintext_auth =

# line 100: add

auth_mechanisms = plain

root@mail:~#

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf

# line 30: change to Maildir

mail_location =

maildir:~/Maildir

root@mail:~#

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf

# line 96-98: uncomment and add

# Postfix smtp-auth
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
mode = 0666

user = postfix
group = postfix

}

root@mail:~#

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf

# line 6: uncomment and change (no SSL)

ssl =

# line 12,13: comment out

ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem

ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem

root@mail:~#

initctl start dovecot

dovecot start/running, process 1337

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