Hans I feel your pain. Particularly given there are two very different implementations: dovecot 1.1 and 2.x :( I am running postfix+dovecot on a ubuntu server, and fortunately, the packagers implemented a combo package that pulls in and tweaks everything so it pretty much just works.
-----Original Message----- From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dovecot documentation woes. I got the postfix installation running smoothly, and I went on to dovecot. And problems began: maybe I actually AM stupid, but I hope not. Still, I cannot seem to find a dovecot tutorial that actually A: works B: is in agreement with the current dovecot distro (especially: the dovecot conf file/dir structure is nothing like what is assumed in the HowTos) Also, they seem all generally of low quality, and seem not to have been proofread by anyone and certainly not vetted for use by absolute beginners. Postfix provided a very well executed couple of straightforward simple setups, which enabled me to learn a lot in a short time. Trying to follow the dovecot HowTos often leaves you confused: like at the start it goes on about one specific layout, and in the middle somewhere something subtly changes, so you suddenly have no idea where to put stuff. And you're left wondering: am I supposed to create this, or will it happen by automagical means? (I've come across both..) Does anyone here know of a simple and straightforward instruction on how to set something simple up for dovecot, dovecot SASL and lmtp with postfix. Something that has been proofread. If someone were to publish a book on Dovecot, I'd put my money down immediately. Is there one? On 2012-07-16 14:31, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:58:04 +0200 > From: "Hans J. Albertsson"<[email protected]> > To:[email protected] > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix > in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I am in the process of starting up a mailserver for about a thousand > mail users. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
