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-#
-# README.FreeBSD
-#
-# $FreeBSD$
-#
-
--> 2003/06/28 (NEW)
-
- o The authentication mechanism is different on FreeBSD 4 and 5.
- For the default configuration set the following variables in
- your dovecot.conf according to your version of FreeBSD.
-
- + FreeBSD 4 (DEFAULT)
-
- auth_passdb = passwd
- auth_user = root
-
- + FreeBSD 5
-
- auth_passdb = pam *
- auth_user = root
-
--> 2003/04/15
-
- o Dovecot will not allow users with a user or group id of 0 to
- login. Because of this you will not be able to open root's
- mailbox, or any of the mailboxes of users in the wheel group.
-
- + 2003/06/28 (NEW)
- Dovecot now has four configuration variables which allow you to
- set the high and low boundaries for acceptable user and group ids.
- You still can not login to root's mailbox with Dovecot however.
- The default configuration which comes with the port is now
- configured to accept connections from users in the wheel group,
- my patch which added the allow_zero_gid variable below has been
- removed. Update your configurations to match.
-
- + 2003/04/15 (DEPRECIATED)
- It is now possible to change this behavior to allow wheel users to
- check their mailboxes with Dovecot. Add the following line to your
- dovecot.conf:
-
- allow_zero_gid = yes
-
- o The configuration which is supplied with this port is installed into
- PREFIX/etc/dovecot-example.conf and PREFIX defaults to /usr/local.
- I have attempted to choose what appears to be the best mixture of
- performance and compatibility and set Dovecot up to start POP3 and
- IMAP services for all the local users of the machine. This should be
- enough for the simplest sites to get up and running straight away.
-
- o Enabling SSL services should be easy, the Dovecot port is configured
- by default to keep its SSL information under /var/dovecot/ssl, if you
- already have certificates you wish to use then you can override this
- in the configuration. If you don't have a certificate and wish to
- make your own it should be as simple as:
-
- # cd PREFIX/share/doc/dovecot/
- # vi dovecot-openssl.conf
-
- Add information which describes your enivironment.
-
- # sh mkcert.sh
-
- Execute the certificate generator. This will put a new certificate
- and private key under /var/dovecot/ssl.
-
- # cd PREFIX/etc/
- # vi dovecot.conf
-
- Reconfigure Dovecot to use SSL.
-
- The variables you will want to set in dovecot.conf to allow a SSL
- secured POP3 and IMAP service are:
-
- protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
- ssl_disable = no
-
- You may wish to also change the following variables to reflect the
- location of SSL certificates on your system.
-
- ssl_cert_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/certs/imapd.pem
- ssl_key_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/private/imapd.pem
-
-Thanks,
-Dominic Marks <dominic.marks@btinternet.com>