On 07/26/2014 07:50 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
OK, with that understanding, you can look at a standard *dovecot 1* config of something like this:
That is version ONE. I don't know what is in the repository that Damon used. I downloaded V2 directly. The config is both more complex/capable but easier since it is broken down into parts that can be enabled/disabled depending on the parts being used: # ls /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ 10-auth.conf 10-master.conf 20-imap.conf 90-acl.conf auth-checkpassword.conf.ext auth-passwdfile.conf.ext auth-vpopmail.conf.ext 10-director.conf 10-ssl.conf 20-lmtp.conf 90-plugin.conf auth-deny.conf.ext auth-sql.conf.ext 10-logging.conf 15-lda.conf 20-managesieve.conf 90-quota.conf auth-ldap.conf.ext auth-static.conf.ext 10-mail.conf 15-mailboxes.conf 20-pop3.conf 90-sieve.conf auth-master.conf.ext auth-system.conf.ext Of those I only needed to active/edit 20-imap.conf -- since I was using that rather than POP3 auth-system.conf.ext -- to specify and set passwords and PAM 10-mail.conf -- describe the namespaces 10-auth.conf -- tell it to use auth-system.conf.ext rather than anther option 10-logging.conf -- I love having things logged :-) It seems overwhelming at first but the real issue is FOCUS. Dovecot is tremendously capable and configurable. Figure what you want and don't want and focus on the former and ignore the latter. If helps that I've been deal with email since the UUCP days, before 'sendmail' existed, and have run an ISPs mail service supporting thousands of users. The important this is understanding that a MTA is not a MUA and that what sendmail/Postfix/Smail-3/etc do is only relevant is you are using it to exchange mail with a peer smtp server. That means it must be listening on a port that is exposed to the internet, for the most part. Of course if you are a big organization with many departments you might be using departmental servers as peers. A lot of what a smtp server does is about routing and storage while the recipient is inaccessible, and on a single user machine "at home" dealing with your ISP it is unnecessary. Fetchmail/procmail can do the job. KISS. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org