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What is dovecot?
dovecot Linux service

Explanation

dovecot service:
POP3 and IMAP mail server that can work with standard mbox and maildir formats.

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Home PC : NO
Server  : NO

Now lets see the manual of dovecot service.

Manual dovecot:
NAME
dovecot - An IMAP and POP3 mail server

SYNOPSIS
dovecot [options]

DESCRIPTION
dovecot is a POP3 and IMAP mail server that can work with standard mbox and maildir formats. It is fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly.

dovecot can be setup to authenticate against LDAP, Postgres or MYSQL databases, but by default authentication is with PAM(7).

dovecot is normally started during the system boot, and runs as a background process but it can also be run through inetd(8) . In the latter case, the /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login or /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login binaries are run directly not /usr/sbin/dovecot.

dovecot will log all of its activities according to syslog.

OPTIONS
-c \
This option changes the default configuration file in which dovecot looks for its configuration.

-F
dovecot will run in the foreground, and it will still log to syslog.

--version
Print version information and exits.

FILES
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Default configuration file.

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
Additional configuration for LDAP based authentication.

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf
Additional configuration for Postgres based authentication.

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
Additional configuration for MySQL based authentication.

/usr/lib/dovecot.
Location of dovecot modules.

DEBIAN-SPECIFIC
dovecot is split into three packages:

dovecot-common contains files used by both servers

dovecot-imapd contains the IMAP server

dovecot-pop3d contains the POP3 server

AUTHOR
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Timo Sirainen
Dovecot is mostly licensed under the terms of the LGPL v2.1. See the file COPYING in the source distribution for exceptions.
This man page is copyright (c) 2004 by Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi> who wrote it for Debian GNU/Linux. It may be freely used by others under the terms of the BSD license.

SEE ALSO
http://dovecot.org/
The mailing list: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot