Installation and Configuration of Dovecot in Rhel 5 and centOS 5

[Suhaib]

Following are the steps fo install and configure Dovecot in RHEL 5 or centOS 5 :

- Use Package Manager, in order to add Dovecot during centOS Installation
- In order to configure Dovecot, click on Applications > System Tools > File Browser and then launce File Browser
- In Location, type /etc and type Enter. In case, you cannot see Location fiels, click notepad button to toggle to text-based locations
- Then, Double-click on file dovecot.sonf to open for edit and the following needs to be changed :

protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh

In case of 64-bit users, Add login_process_size = 64 in Dovecot Configuration file.

- Start Dovecot Service
- In order to test Dovecot, click on Applications > Accessories > Terminal which will launch Terminal window
- You can then test Dovecot on RHEL 5 or centOS 5

[Shoaib]

If in case you will encounter any problems, check the log file at /var/log/maillog.