Installing & Configuring DoveCot for RHEL of CentOS

The following is the script I use to install and configure DoveCot on RHEL of CentOS. In summary, the script is doing the following:

1. Installing DoveCot
2. Setup the dovecot.conf configuration file
3. Enabling dovecot to start upon bootup
4. Startup dovecot

yum install dovecot -y


cp /etc/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf.orig

cat > /etc/dovecot.conf << EOF

protocols = imap imaps

protocol imap {

}

protocol lda {

  postmaster_address = postmaster@domain.com

}

auth default {

  mechanisms = plain

  passdb pam {

  }

  userdb passwd {

  }

  user = root

}

dict {

}



plugin {

}

EOF

chkconfig dovecot on

service dovecot restart

Once the script is completed, you can go ahead and use your mail client to connect to your server. The configuration file used here is for a IMAP(s) mail server.