Dovecot (software)
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| Original author(s) | Timo Sirainen |
| Developer(s) | Timo Sirainen and contributors |
| Initial release | July 2002 |
| Stable release | 2.0.17[1] / January 6, 2012 |
| 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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[edit] Features
Dovecot can work with standard mbox, Maildir, and its own experimental native high-performance dbox formats.[2] 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. includes Dovecot for email services in Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard.
[edit] Security
Dovecot's author takes pride in secure design and implementation. A reward of EUR 1,000 (approximately $1,427 USD, £882 GBP as of June 2011) has been announced for finding any remotely exploitable security flaw.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "v2.0.17 released". 2012-01-06. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2012-January/000203.html. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "Mailbox Format: dbox". Dovecot Wiki. 2006-05-12. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
- ^ "Dovecot - Security". Dovecot Web Pages. http://www.dovecot.org/security.html. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Official Wiki with how-tos and documentation
- "Dovecot + Sendmail = Perfect Mail Server". bobcares.com. 2008-01-12. http://bobcares.com/article78.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
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