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Dovecot v1.0.15 Installation
Build the oldest version with the hope that it can handle old storage structure. Downloaded the source code from https://www.dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.15.tar.gz and built it following the instructions:
./configure --enable-static make
Installation steps:
- Unzip dovecot.zip in /opt
chown 1205:1205 /opt/dovecot
- Create user/group dovecot/dovecot 1205/1205 with home in /opt/dovecot
groupadd -g 1205 dovecot useradd -m -d /opt/dovecot/home/dovecot -g 1205 -u 1205 dovecot su - dovecot mkdir -p /opt/dovecot/home/dovecot
- The uid/gid/password of the main (and only) IMAP user are built into conf/passwd and conf/userdb, and they're also referred from the conf file (first_valid_uid/last_valid_uid). No OS-level user needs to be created, just we need to make sure there's no uid/gid conflict.
- Update /opt/dovecot/conf/userdb with the user's home. As root:
mkdir -p /opt/dovecot/home/ovidiu chown -R 58285:58285 /opt/dovecot/home/ovidiu
then update /opt/dovecot/conf/userdb.
- Start/stop:
cd /opt/dovecot ./start-dovecot|./stop-dovecot
- Restore Maildir, link it from /opt/dovecot/home/ovidiu and
chown -R 58285:58285 /opt/dovecot/home/ovidiu/Maildir
Building Latest Dovecot from Source
Requires openssl-devel package to be installed.
git clone https://github.com/dovecot/core.git dovecot
cd dovecot
Identify the latest release tag and check it out into a detached HEAD:
git checkout 2.2.33
./autogen.sh
I had to run autogen twice, the first time it complained about an 'AM_ICONV' macro.
PANDOC=false ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
Output:
Install prefix . : /usr/local
File offsets ... : 64bit
I/O polling .... : epoll
I/O notifys .... : inotify
SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL)
GSSAPI ......... : no
passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword
dcrypt ..........: yes
: -pam -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql -vpopmail
userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword nss
: -ldap -sql -vpopmail
SQL drivers .... :
: -pgsql -mysql -sqlite -cassandra
Full text search : squat
: -lucene -solr
make
sudo make install
"install" does the following:
+ - 0755 2508248 /usr/local/bin/doveadm + - 0755 433976 /usr/local/bin/doveconf + l 0777 7 /usr/local/bin/dsync -> doveadm + d 0755 20 /usr/local/etc/dovecot + d 0755 20480 /usr/local/include/dovecot + d 0755 8192 /usr/local/lib/dovecot + d 0755 4096 /usr/local/libexec/dovecot + - 0755 316744 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot + d 0755 24 /usr/local/share/aclocal + - 0644 5854 /usr/local/share/aclocal/dovecot.m4 + d 0755 179 /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot + d 0755 23 /usr/local/share/dovecot + d 0755 4096 /usr/local/share/man/man1 + - 0644 22 /usr/local/share/man/man1/deliver.1 + - 0644 9008 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-acl.1 + - 0644 5309 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-altmove.1 + - 0644 5801 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-auth.1 + - 0644 23 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-backup.1 + - 0644 5139 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-batch.1 + - 0644 19 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-config.1 + - 0644 24 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-copy.1 + - 0644 5077 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-deduplicate.1 + - 0644 9392 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-director.1 + - 0644 3148 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-dump.1 + - 0644 2272 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-exec.1 + - 0644 5034 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-expunge.1 + - 0644 7751 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-fetch.1 + - 0644 5797 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-flags.1 + - 0644 4302 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-force-resync.1 + - 0644 3440 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-fs.1 + - 0644 4684 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-fts.1 + - 0644 1584 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-help.1 + - 0644 6210 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-import.1 + - 0644 5322 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-index.1 + - 0644 3081 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-instance.1 + - 0644 4530 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-kick.1 + - 0644 3761 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-log.1 + - 0644 4209 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-mailbox-cryptokey.1 + - 0644 11524 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-mailbox.1 + - 0644 4159 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-mount.1 + - 0644 6726 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-move.1 + - 0644 2526 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-penalty.1 + - 0644 3574 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-proxy.1 + - 0644 4278 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-purge.1 + - 0644 5139 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-pw.1 + - 0644 6072 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-quota.1 + - 0644 18 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-reload.1 + - 0644 4842 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-replicator.1 + - 0644 6022 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-search.1 + - 0644 1917 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-stats.1 + - 0644 18 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-stop.1 + - 0644 15883 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-sync.1 + - 0644 4518 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-user.1 + - 0644 4103 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm-who.1 + - 0644 8119 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveadm.1 + - 0644 5304 /usr/local/share/man/man1/doveconf.1 + - 0644 4915 /usr/local/share/man/man1/dovecot-lda.1 + - 0644 4367 /usr/local/share/man/man1/dovecot.1 + - 0644 23 /usr/local/share/man/man1/dsync.1 + d 0755 36 /usr/local/share/man/man7 + - 0644 9460 /usr/local/share/man/man7/doveadm-search-query.7