Author: igor
Date: Thu Oct 24 03:10:30 2013
New Revision: 12048
Log:
added dovecot-2.2.6
Added:
trunk/BOOK/server/mail/dovecot.xml (contents, props changed)
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Wed Oct 23 17:01:07 2013 (r12047)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Thu Oct 24 03:10:30 2013 (r12048)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "23"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "24"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "10"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2013">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "October 23rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "October 24th, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!--
version|testing|unstable|development] -->
@@ -484,6 +484,11 @@
<!ENTITY vsftpd-version "3.0.2">
<!-- Chapter 21 -->
+<!ENTITY dovecot-major "2">
+<!ENTITY dovecot-minor "2">
+<!ENTITY dovecot-micro "6">
+<!ENTITY dovecot-version
"&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;">
+
<!ENTITY exim-version "4.80.1">
<!ENTITY postfix-version "2.10.2">
<!ENTITY qpopper-version "4.1.0">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Wed Oct 23 17:01:07
2013 (r12047)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Oct 24 03:10:30
2013 (r12048)
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>October 24th, 2013</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[igor] - Added dovecot-2.2.6. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;3967">#3967</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>October 23nd, 2013</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Added: trunk/BOOK/server/mail/dovecot.xml
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added)
+++ trunk/BOOK/server/mail/dovecot.xml Thu Oct 24 03:10:30 2013 (r12048)
@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-download-http
+
"http://www.dovecot.org/releases/&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;/dovecot-&dovecot-version;.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-download-ftp " ">
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum "db65988ef2e6889dd8b49c132b21fc8f">
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-size "4.3 MB">
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize "198 MB">
+ <!ENTITY dovecot-time "1.6 SBU">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="dovecot" xreflabel="Dovecot-&dovecot-version;">
+ <?dbhtml filename="dovecot.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info>
+ <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
+ <date>$Date$</date>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Dovecot-&dovecot-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot">
+ <primary sortas="a-Dovecot">Dovecot</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title>Introduction to Dovecot</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <application>Dovecot</application> is an Internet Message Access Protocol
+ (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server, written primarily with
+ security in mind. <application>Dovecot</application> aims to be
+ lightweight, fast and easy to set up as well as highly configurable and
+ easily extensible with plugins.
+ </para>
+
+ &lfs74_checked;
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-http;"/>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Download (FTP): <ulink url="&dovecot-download-ftp;"/>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Download MD5 sum: &dovecot-md5sum;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Download size: &dovecot-size;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Estimated disk space required: &dovecot-buildsize;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Estimated build time: &dovecot-time;
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Dovecot Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="libcap"/>,
+ <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
+ <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
+ <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
+ <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
+ <xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
+ <xref linkend="mysql"/>,
+ <xref linkend="sqlite"/>, and
+ <xref linkend="clucene"/>
+ </para>
+
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
+ <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/dovecot"/>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Dovecot</title>
+
+ <para>
+ There should be dedicated users and groups for unprivileged Dovecot
+ processes and for processing users' logins. Issue the following commands
+ as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 42 dovecot &&
+useradd -c "Dovecot unprivileged user" -d /dev/null -u 42 \
+ -g dovecot -s /bin/false dovecot &&
+groupadd -g 43 dovenull &&
+useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \
+ -g dovenull -s /bin/false dovenull</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>
+ Install <application>Dovecot</application> by running the following
+ commands:
+ </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --sysconfdir=/etc \
+ --localstatedir=/var \
+ --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
+ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
+ --disable-static &&
+make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To test the results, issue <command>make check</command>.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="commands">
+ <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
+ href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>--with-ldap</option>: This switch enables
+ <application>OpenLDAP</application> authentication support.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>--with-pgsql</option>: This switch enables
+ <application>PostgreSQL</application> authentication support.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>--with-mysql</option>: This switch enables
+ <application>MySQL</application> authentication support.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>--with-sqlite</option>: This switch enables
+ <application>SQLite</application> authentication support.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>--with-lucene</option>: This switch enables
+ <application>CLucene</application> full text search support.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="configuration">
+ <title>Configuring Dovecot</title>
+
+ <sect3 id="dovecot-config">
+ <title>Config Files</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <filename>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</filename>,
+ <filename>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</filename>, and
+ <filename>/etc/dovecot/local.conf</filename>
+ </para>
+
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
+ <primary
sortas="e-etc-dovecot-dovecot.conf">/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
+ <primary sortas="e-etc-dovecot-conf.d">/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-config">
+ <primary
sortas="e-etc-dovecot-local.conf">/etc/dovecot/local.conf</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Configuration Information</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Copy an example configuration, which you can use as a starting point:
+ </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cp -rv
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;/example-config/*
/etc/dovecot</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>
+ The following configuration is a simple proof of concept with IMAP
+ service using local users for authentication and mailbox location.
+ Reading files from the <filename class="directory">conf.d</filename>
+ directory is commented out since the included example configuration
+ requires <application>OpenSSL</application> and
+ <application>Linux PAM</application>.
+ </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i '/^\!include / s/^/#/'
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf &&
+chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &&
+cat > /etc/dovecot/local.conf << "EOF"
+<literal>protocols = imap
+ssl = no
+mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
+userdb {
+ driver = passwd
+}
+passdb {
+ driver = shadow
+}</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>
+ You will definitely want to read the official documentation at <ulink
+ url="http://wiki2.dovecot.org/"/> if you plan to use
+ <application>Dovecot</application> in production environment.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="dovecot-init">
+ <title>Boot Script</title>
+
+ <para>If you want the <application>Dovecot</application> server to
+ start automatically when the system is booted, install the
+ <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot</filename> init script included
+ in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
+
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-init">
+ <primary sortas="f-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-dovecot</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title>Contents</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ doveadm, doveconf, dovecot, dsync, and various internal programs
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ various internal plugins
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ /etc/dovecot,
+ /usr/include/dovecot,
+ /usr/lib/dovecot, and
+ /usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version;
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="doveadm">
+ <term><command>doveadm</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is the <application>Dovecot</application> administration tool.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot doveadm">
+ <primary sortas="b-doveadm">doveadm</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="doveconf">
+ <term><command>doveconf</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is <application>Dovecot</application>'s configuration dumping
+ utility.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot doveconf">
+ <primary sortas="b-doveconf">doveconf</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="dovecot-prog">
+ <term><command>dovecot</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is the IMAP and POP server.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dovecot-prog">
+ <primary sortas="b-dovecot">dovecot</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="dsync">
+ <term><command>dsync</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is <application>Dovecot</application>'s mailbox synchronization
+ utility.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="dovecot dsync">
+ <primary sortas="b-dsync">dsync</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml Wed Oct 23 17:01:07 2013 (r12047)
+++ trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml Thu Oct 24 03:10:30 2013 (r12048)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
<para>As well as SMTP servers there is a POP server (qpopper) and an IMAP
server (Courier-IMAP).</para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="dovecot.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="exim.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="postfix.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="qpopper.xml"/>
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