Files to facilitate the generation of a self-signed certificate and key for Dovecot have been installed: /etc/ssl/dovecot-openssl.cnf (Edit this accordingly!) ${PREFIX}/sbin/dovecot-mkcert.sh If this has been or will be accomplished by other means, use the following paths for the files: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem If you wish to have Dovecot started automatically at boot time, simply add the follow lines to /etc/rc.local: if [ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/dovecot ]; then echo -n ' dovecot'; ${PREFIX}/sbin/dovecot fi