Dovecot Installation
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Building 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:
- Creates /usr/local/lib/dovecot (and subdirectories) and installs libraries there.
- Creates /usr/local/share/aclocal.
- Creates /usr/local/include/dovecot and installs header files there.
- Creates /usr/local/etc/dovecot
- Creates /usr/local/libexec/dovecot
- Creates /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot
- Creates /usr/local/share/dovecot