installing Dovecot on debian

Laurent Perrinet

2012-02-08 13:36

master howto: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupDovecot
Install
```
sudo aptitude install dovecot
```

Warning

This post is certainly obsolete...

Configure
```
sudo vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
```

Mine reads (it's just meant to access imap files from the local mail server and not to serve outside the localhost):

protocols = imaps
listen = localhost:10943
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
protocol imap {
    ssl_listen = *:993
}
ssl_disable = no
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

Reload
```
sudo service dovecot restart
```