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# README.FreeBSD
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# $FreeBSD$
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-> 2003/06/28 (NEW)
o The authentication mechanism is different on FreeBSD 4 and 5.
For the default configuration set the following variables in
your dovecot.conf according to your version of FreeBSD.
+ FreeBSD 4 (DEFAULT)
auth_passdb = passwd
auth_user = root
+ FreeBSD 5
auth_passdb = pam *
auth_user = root
-> 2003/04/15
o Dovecot will not allow users with a user or group id of 0 to
login. Because of this you will not be able to open root's
mailbox, or any of the mailboxes of users in the wheel group.
+ 2003/06/28 (NEW)
Dovecot now has four configuration variables which allow you to
set the high and low boundaries for acceptable user and group ids.
You still can not login to root's mailbox with Dovecot however.
The default configuration which comes with the port is now
configured to accept connections from users in the wheel group,
my patch which added the allow_zero_gid variable below has been
removed. Update your configurations to match.
+ 2003/04/15 (DEPRECIATED)
It is now possible to change this behavior to allow wheel users to
check their mailboxes with Dovecot. Add the following line to your
dovecot.conf:
allow_zero_gid = yes
o The configuration which is supplied with this port is installed into
PREFIX/etc/dovecot-example.conf and PREFIX defaults to /usr/local.
I have attempted to choose what appears to be the best mixture of
performance and compatibility and set Dovecot up to start POP3 and
IMAP services for all the local users of the machine. This should be
enough for the simplest sites to get up and running straight away.
o Enabling SSL services should be easy, the Dovecot port is configured
by default to keep its SSL information under /var/dovecot/ssl, if you
already have certificates you wish to use then you can override this
in the configuration. If you don't have a certificate and wish to
make your own it should be as simple as:
# cd PREFIX/share/doc/dovecot/
# vi dovecot-openssl.conf
Add information which describes your enivironment.
# sh mkcert.sh
Execute the certificate generator. This will put a new certificate
and private key under /var/dovecot/ssl.
# cd PREFIX/etc/
# vi dovecot.conf
Reconfigure Dovecot to use SSL.
The variables you will want to set in dovecot.conf to allow a SSL
secured POP3 and IMAP service are:
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_disable = no
You may wish to also change the following variables to reflect the
location of SSL certificates on your system.
ssl_cert_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/certs/imapd.pem
ssl_key_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/private/imapd.pem
Thanks,
Dominic Marks <dominic.marks@btinternet.com>
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