User:Hannes Röst/dovecot
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems. This means that it offers access to email that are stored on a remote server (it provides the server-side service while the client will have to connect using an Email client / MUA like thunderbird).
In order to send and receive email on a server, you still need a mail transfer agent (MTA) like postfix running on the server.
/etc/dovecot/passwd -- has all email passwords (IMAP and SMTP since postfix will retrieve them there too)
/etc/aliases -- maps email addresses to corresponding folder in /var/mail (run newaliases afterwards)
FAQ edit
How do I configure dovecot to read the passwords from an SQL table? edit
see also http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL
and edit the file
auth default {
## other stuff
passdb sql {
# Path for SQL configuration file
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
}
}
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf