I have been running Dovecot on my unRAID server as my local mailserver for more than one year.

 

This allows me to hold all my mail on a parity-protected share and have it available to any machine in the house.

 

It struck me that others may find this useful, so I have created a plugin for the latest release version (including Pigeonhole, a sieve filter add-on for Dovecot).

 

I don't have time just now (it's late at night, here) to go into details of how to configure the server.  However, full information can be found by visiting www.dovecot.org.

 

There are two significant files to consider - one is the configuration file at /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (my file can be found in that directory, as an example), but held in /boot/config/plugins/dovecot/dovecot.conf for non-volatile storage, and copied to the volatile storage when the server is started..

 

The other file is a passwords file, which defines the available user accounts, and the associated passwords, in passwd.dovecot, which I place in my Maildir on the user share (/mnt/user/Maildir/passwd.dovecot).

 

My next task will be to create the pop3 fetcher (mpop) as a plugin.  I use mpop to fetch the mail from my isp, to place in my local Maildir.

 

Anyway, the plugin can be found attached to this post.

 

I would be interested to hear your feedback.

dovecot-2.1.7-1pb.plg.txt

Nice one! Not useful for me at the moment, but it's a great addition.

 

Good work 

I installed this and get an icon on the settings screen in simplefeatures. When I click this icon the only thing I can do is enable or disable. So where do I set my maildir and isp and password. Must this be done by manually changing a config file?

So where do I set my maildir and isp and password. Must this be done by manually changing a config file?

 

Yes, I'm afraid so.  Perhaps I didn't make that clear in my original post.  If you look at the config file, and see how many options there are, I think that you might understand why I cannot code the maintenance of that file.

When I look in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/I see a example.conf , I don't see a dovecot.conf.

 

Should this one be changed and renamed to dovecot.conf and saved in another location?

 

Which setting are needed for a minimal configuration?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sorry if my reply appears unhelpful, however, I would ask that you go back and re-read the first post in this thread.

 

Dovecot really is a very complex and comprehensive package offering very many configuration options.  There is little point in me repeating information which can be found on dovecot.org.  For a basic config, see which lines in the example file are uncommented - those were the ones that I found I needed.