Dovecot configurations

Dovecot has two major configuration files (/etc/dovecot/) within our solution. First one is the default dovecot configuration file dovecot.conf and other one, dovecot-ldap configuration file dovecot-ldap.conf.ext. It is necessary to install dovecot-ldap plugin in order to use OpenLDAP with dovecot. There are folder called conf.d which contain several important configuration files also.

dovecot.conf

Most of the default settings(configurations) are listed here and there are some commented configurations also. They can be uncommented or you can add new configurations as your requirements. Lets discus our configurations.

• auth_mechanism

  The simplest authentication mechanism is PLAIN. The client simply sends the password unencrypted to Dovecot. All clients support the PLAIN mechanism, but obviously there's the problem that anyone listening on the network can steal the password. For that reason (and some others) other mechanisms were implemented.

• protocols

  Which protocols dovecot must support.

• listen

  Which protocols dovecot must listen.

• log_path

  Where dovecot logs are saved.