Dovecot (software)

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Dovecot
The Dovecot logo
Developer(s) Timo Sirainen and contributors
Stable release 1.2.1 / 2009-07-10; 7 days ago
Operating system UNIX-like
Type POP3 and IMAP server
License Mostly MIT and LGPL
Website http://www.dovecot.org

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Developed by Timo Sirainen, Dovecot was first released in July 2002. Dovecot primarily aims to be a lightweight, fast and easy to set up open source mailserver.

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Dovecot can work with standard mbox, Maildir, and its own experimental native high-performance dbox formats.[1] It is fully compatible with UW IMAP and Courier IMAP servers’ implementation of them, as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly.

Dovecot also includes a Mail delivery agent (called Local delivery agent in Dovecot’s documentation), with optional Sieve filtering support.

Dovecot supports a variety of authentication schemas for IMAP and POP access including CRAM-MD5 and the more secure DIGEST-MD5.

Apple, Inc. will include Dovecot for email services in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Mailbox Format: dbox". Dovecot Wiki. 2006-05-12. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox. Retrieved on 2007-01-15. 

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