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autocreate: Redesigned autocreate plugin to create/subscribe mailboxes lazily. Mailboxes are listed as if they existed, but they're not created until the mailbox is opened for the first time. Mailboxes are autosubscribed only during mailbox creation, so subscription file isn't unnecessarily being read all the time either. This lazy creation also means that if autocreate mailbox is removed from configuration and it was never opened by the client, it was also never physically created.
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:27:50 +0200
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children b6a705c42001
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Build Instructions
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For most people, the usual:

  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

is enough. This installs Dovecot under /usr/local.

If you have installed some libraries into locations which require special
include or library paths, you can give them in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
environment variables. For example:

  CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure

See ./configure --help for a list of all available configure options.
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource for more information.

Running
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Rename configuration file:

  mv /usr/local/etc/dovecot-example.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf

Read through, and make needed modifications.

Once everything is configured, there's two ways to start Dovecot:

 1) Run "dovecot" binary which does everything.

 2) Start it via inetd or similiar by executing "imap-login" or "pop3-login"
    binaries. If you're listening in SSL port, add --ssl parameter.

See Wiki for more information about configuration. If you're in a hurry, go
at least through http://wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration

SSL/TLS
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Dovecot used to support both GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries, but nowadays
only the OpenSSL code is working.