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The documentation in wiki/ directory has been imported from
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/. The actual Wiki may contain more up-to-date
information, so unless this is an old Dovecot release, you may want to use
the Wiki directly.
* <QuickConfiguration.txt> for people in hurry
* <WhyDoesItNotWork.txt> - Why doesn't Dovecot work?
Generic information about mail servers
======================================
* Mail protocols: IMAP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap], POP3
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop3] and SMTP
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp]
* <Mail delivery agents and Sieve> [MDA.txt]
* <Mailbox formats> [MailboxFormat.txt]
* <Dovecot's index files> [IndexFiles.txt]
* <User authentication> [Authentication.txt]
* <SASL> [Sasl.txt]
Dovecot installation
====================
It's a good idea to start with a simple Dovecot installation to see that
everything works. After that you can start changing things one at a time, so if
you run into trouble you know immediately where the problem is.
If you're in a hurry and you already know enough about mail servers,
<QuickConfiguration.txt> may be more helpful to you instead.
1. Installing
* <Compiling from sources> [CompilingSource.txt]
* <Installing prebuilt binaries> [PrebuiltBinaries.txt]
2. <Checking where mail is delivered to> [FindMailLocation.txt]
3. <Configuring Dovecot> [BasicConfiguration.txt]
4. <Running Dovecot> [RunningDovecot.txt]
5. <Logging.txt>
6. <Testing that everything works> [TestInstallation.txt]
* <Testing POP3 installation> [TestPop3Installation.txt]
7. <Finishing the test installation> [FinishBasicConfiguration.txt]
Dovecot configuration
=====================
* Starting guidelines
* <System users> [SystemUsers.txt]
* <Virtual users> [VirtualUsers.txt]
* <UNIX User IDs used by Dovecot> [UserIds.txt]
* <Authentication configuration> [Authentication.txt]
* <Password databases> [PasswordDatabase.txt]
* <User databases> [UserDatabase.txt]
* <Multiple authentication databases>
[Authentication.MultipleDatabases.txt]
* <Kerberos> [Authentication.Kerberos.txt]
* <Restricting users' access> [Authentication.RestrictAccess.txt]
* <Special authentication features> [PasswordDatabase.ExtraFields.txt]
* <Master users> [Authentication.MasterUsers.txt]
* <Caching> [Authentication.Caching.txt]
* <Mailbox location configuration> [MailLocation.txt]
* <Mails stored in local disk> [MailLocation.LocalDisk.txt]
* <Mails stored in shared filesystem> [MailLocation.SharedDisk.txt]
(<NFS.txt>, clustered FS)
* <Director.txt> for easily proxying same user to same server to
avoid caching problems.
* <Maildir configuration> [MailLocation.Maildir.txt]
* <Mbox configuration> [MailLocation.Mbox.txt]
* <Namespaces.txt>
* <Shared mailboxes> [SharedMailboxes.txt]
* <Login processes and their settings> [LoginProcess.txt]
* <SSL.txt> settings and certificate creation
* <Plugins.txt>
* <Quota.txt>
* <Access Control Lists> [ACL.txt] (ACLs)
* <Dovecot as a POP3 server> [POP3Server.txt]
* <Dovecot's local delivery agent> [LDA.txt]
* <Sieve.txt> and <ManageSieve.txt>
* <Post-login scripting> [PostLoginScripting.txt]
HOWTOs, examples and tutorials
==============================
Some HOWTOs haven't been included in wiki/. Use http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
instead.
* <HOWTOs, examples and tutorials> [HowTo.txt] for different installations
* Existing Dovecot installations
[http://wiki2.dovecot.org/DovecotServerInstallations]
Migration from existing systems
===============================
* <From other IMAP/POP3 servers> [Migration.txt]
* <My mailboxes are lost after migrating to Dovecot!>
[MissingMailboxes.txt]
* <Upgrading Dovecot to a new version> [Upgrading.txt]
* <Converting between mailbox formats> [Migration.MailFormat.txt] (mbox <->
Maildir, etc.)
Troubleshooting
===============
* <Why doesn't Dovecot work?> [WhyDoesItNotWork.txt]
* <Finding the error message from logs> [Logging.txt]
* <Debugging authentication> [Debugging.Authentication.txt]
* <Process tracing> [Debugging.ProcessTracing.txt] is useful when Dovecot
seems slow or hangs completely
* Rawlog [Debugging.Rawlog.txt] can be used to log post-login IMAP/POP3
traffic
* <mbox errors and crashes> [MboxProblems.txt]
* <Client issues and configuration> [Clients.txt]
* <Negative UIDs / message sets> [Clients.NegativeUIDs.txt]
* <Debugging using Thunderbird's logging> [Debugging.Thunderbird.txt]
* <"Time moved backwards" error> [TimeMovedBackwards.txt]
* <%d expands to empty string> [DomainLost.txt]
* <pre-authenticated sessions> [PreAuth.txt]
* Sending bug reports [http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html], debugging crashes
and sniffing network traffic
Tuning
======
* <Performance tuning> [PerformanceTuning.txt]
* <Security tuning> [SecurityTuning.txt]
* <Chrooting.txt>
Reference
=========
* <Dovecot's design> [Design.txt]
* <Client issues and configuration> [Clients.txt]
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