Hi Scott,

Dovecot can't really be set up in isolation. Its configuration will depend on what MTA you're using, whether or not you want to use MySQL or some other method for user authentication, whether or not you want to allow users to set up mail filters, and so on. There are lots of opinions about the "right" way to do it all.

We run a Debian-MySQL-Dovecot-Postfix-Roundcube stack that works pretty well. I'd be happy to answer questions about it off-list, since it's not really a Roundcube development topic.

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On Jan 17 2012 10:49 am, S c o t t K r a m e r wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have or recommend a nice

walk-through/quick-start installing, configuring dovecot, and the ideal linux variation to run it on?

I of course can google it, but there

are tons of options, please if someone can suggest the best, that would be awesome!

We use hMailserver right now, it's nice, but it's

difficult to restore certain things from backup (like a user folder deleted by accident), and it does not support threading.

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the dovecot help!

On 2012-01-17 03:44, Christopher Moules wrote:

Well there is the official wiki:

http://wiki1.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration

We run Dovecot 1 on

Debian and will soon be moving to Dovecot 2 (local

'backport').

Dovecot 2 makes sense for a new installation.

It depends on your

requirements on the *how* you configure it.

If you have a user

database then you will probably want to make it work

with that.

There is lots of good information in the wiki, for example:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MigrationWe moved from Cyrus and have been happy. With Dovecot 2 and doveadm

there is nothing to miss from

Cyrus.

Regards

Chris

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