dovecot(1) [centos man page]
DOVECOT(1) Dovecot DOVECOT(1) NAME
dovecot - a secure and highly configurable IMAP and POP3 server SYNOPSIS
dovecot [-Fp] [-c config-file] dovecot -a [-c config-file] dovecot -n [-c config-file] dovecot --build-options dovecot --help dovecot --hostdomain dovecot --version dovecot reload dovecot stop DESCRIPTION
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excel- lent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very lit- tle memory. OPTIONS
-a Dump all configuration settings to stdout and exit successfully. The same as doveconf -a. -c config-file Start dovecot with an alternative configuration. -F Run dovecot in foreground, do not daemonize. -n Dump non-default settings to stdout and exit successfully. The same as doveconf -n. -p Prompt for the ssl key password for the configured ssl_key on startup. --build-options Show Dovecot's build options and exit successfully. --help Print a usage message to stdout and exit successfully. --hostdomain Shows the current host.domain name of the system. If the domain lookup should fail for some reason, only the hostname will be shown. --version Show Dovecot's version and exit successfully. COMMANDS
reload Force dovecot to reload its configuration. stop Shutdown dovecot and all its child processes. When shutdown_clients is set to no, existing sessions will continue to use the old settings, after a dovecot reload. Also all sessions will keep alive after a dovecot stop. By default all active sessions will be shut down. SIGNALS
Dovecot handles the following signals as described: HUP Force dovecot to reload its configuration. INT Shutdown dovecot and all its child processes. TERM Shutdown dovecot and all its child processes. USR1 Force dovecot to reopen all configured log files (log_path, info_log_path and debug_log_path). The signals ALARM and PIPE are ignored. FILES
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Dovecot's main configuration file. /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext Dovecot's LDAP authdb/userdb module configuration file. /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext Dovecot's SQL authdb/userdb module configuration file. /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext Dovecot's dict configuration with SQL-backend. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-*-conf.ext Configuration files of different authentication modules. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*.conf Configuration files of different services and settings. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is avail- able at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html AUTHOR
Dovecot <http://dovecot.org> and its manual pages were written by the Dovecot authors <http://dovecot.org/doc/AUTHORS>, mainly Timo Sir- ainen <tss at iki.fi>, and are licensed under the terms of the MIT and LGPLv2.1 licenses, see <http://dovecot.org/doc/COPYING> for details. SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), doveconf(1), dovecot-lda(1), dsync(1) Dovecot v2.2 2013-08-06 DOVECOT(1)
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DOVECOT-LDA(1) Dovecot DOVECOT-LDA(1) NAME
dovecot-lda - Dovecot's local mail delivery agent SYNOPSIS
dovecot-lda [-ek] [-a address] [-c config_file] [-d username] [-f envelope_sender] [-m mailbox] [-o setting=value] [-p path] DESCRIPTION
The dovecot-lda is a local mail delivery agent which takes mail from an MTA and delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. Main features of the dovecot-lda are: * Mailbox indexing during mail delivery, providing faster mailbox access later * Quota enforcing by the quota plugin * Sieve language support by the Pigeonhole sieve plugin OPTIONS
Options accepted by dovecot-lda: -a address Destination address (e.g. user+ext@domain). Default is the same as username. -c config_file Alternative configuration file path. -d username Destination username. If given, the user information is looked up from userdb. Typically used with virtual users, but not neces- sarily with system users. -e If mail gets rejected, write the rejection reason to stderr and exit with status 77 (EX_NOPERM). The default is to send a rejection mail ourself. -f envelope_sender Envelope sender address. -k Don't clear all environment at startup. -m mailbox Destination mailbox (default is INBOX). If the mailbox doesn't exist, it will not be created (unless the lda_mailbox_autocreate setting is set to yes). If a message couldn't be saved to the mailbox for any reason, it's delivered to INBOX instead. -o setting=value Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times. -p path Path to the mail to be delivered instead of reading from stdin. If using maildir the file is hard linked to the destination if pos- sible. This allows a single mail to be delivered to multiple users using hard links, but currently it also prevents deliver from updating cache file so it shouldn't be used unless really necessary. EXIT STATUS
dovecot-lda will exit with one of the following values: 0 Delivery was successful. (EX_OK) 64 Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE) 77 -e option was used and mail was rejected. Typically this happens when user is over quota and quota_full_tempfail = no is configured. (EX_NOPERM) 75 A temporary failure. This is returned for almost all failures. See the log file for details. (EX_TEMPFAIL) FILES
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Dovecot's main configuration file. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf Mailbox locations and namespaces. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf LDA specific settings. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf Plugin specific settings. /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf Quota configuration. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is avail- able at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), dovecot(1), doveconf(1), dsync(1) Related MTA specific documentation: Postfix: postconf(5), transport(5), pipe(8) Exim: The accept router http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch16.html Generic options for transports http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch24.html The pipe transport http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch29.html Dovecot v2.1 2011-01-16 DOVECOT-LDA(1)