The primary purpose of Dovecot is to act as mail storage server. Mail is delivered to the server using some mail delivery agent (MDA) and stored for later access with an email client (mail user agent, or MUA). Dovecot can also act as mail proxy server, forwarding connection to another mail server, or act as a lightweight MUA in order to retrieve and manipulate mail on remote server for e.g. mail migration.
According to the Open Email Survey, as of 2020, Dovecot has an installed base of at least 2.9million IMAP servers, and has a global market share of 76.9% of all IMAP servers. The results of the same survey in 2019 gave figures of 2.6million and 76.2%, respectively.[4]
Dovecot can work with standard mbox, Maildir, and its own native high-performance dbox formats.[5] It is fully compatible with UW IMAP and Courier IMAP servers’ implementation of them, as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly.
Dovecot also includes a mail delivery agent (called Local delivery agent in Dovecot's documentation) and an LMTP server, with optional Sieve filtering support.
With version 2.2, some new features have been added to Dovecot, e.g. additional IMAP command extensions, dsync has been rewritten or optimized, and shared mailboxes now support per-user flags.[6]
Version 2.3 adds a message submission agent, Lua scripting for authentication, and some other improvements.[7]
In 2017, Mozilla, via the Mozilla Open Source Support program, conducted a security audit on the Dovecot software, the first public audit of the Dovecot code.[8]
dovecot, software, dovecot, open, source, imap, pop3, server, unix, like, operating, systems, written, primarily, with, security, mind, timo, sirainen, originated, dovecot, first, released, july, 2002, dovecot, developers, primarily, produce, lightweight, fast. Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Unix like operating systems written primarily with security in mind 3 Timo Sirainen originated Dovecot and first released it in July 2002 Dovecot developers primarily aim to produce a lightweight fast and easy to set up open source email server DovecotOriginal author s Timo SirainenDeveloper s Timo Sirainen and contributorsInitial releaseJuly 2002 20 years ago 2002 07 Stable release2 3 20 1 22 December 2022 2 months ago 22 December 2022 Repositorygithub wbr com wbr dovecot wbr coreWritten inCOperating systemUnix likeTypeIMAP and POP3 serverLicenseMostly MIT and LGPLv2 2 Websitewww wbr dovecot wbr org The primary purpose of Dovecot is to act as mail storage server Mail is delivered to the server using some mail delivery agent MDA and stored for later access with an email client mail user agent or MUA Dovecot can also act as mail proxy server forwarding connection to another mail server or act as a lightweight MUA in order to retrieve and manipulate mail on remote server for e g mail migration According to the Open Email Survey as of 2020 Dovecot has an installed base of at least 2 9 million IMAP servers and has a global market share of 76 9 of all IMAP servers The results of the same survey in 2019 gave figures of 2 6 million and 76 2 respectively 4 Contents 1 Features 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksFeatures EditDovecot can work with standard mbox Maildir and its own native high performance dbox formats 5 It is fully compatible with UW IMAP and Courier IMAP servers implementation of them as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly Dovecot also includes a mail delivery agent called Local delivery agent in Dovecot s documentation and an LMTP server with optional Sieve filtering support Dovecot supports a variety of authentication schemas for IMAP POP and message submission agent MSA access including CRAM MD5 and the more secure DIGEST MD5 With version 2 2 some new features have been added to Dovecot e g additional IMAP command extensions dsync has been rewritten or optimized and shared mailboxes now support per user flags 6 Version 2 3 adds a message submission agent Lua scripting for authentication and some other improvements 7 Apple Inc includes Dovecot for email services since Mac OS X Server 10 6 Snow Leopard In 2017 Mozilla via the Mozilla Open Source Support program conducted a security audit on the Dovecot software the first public audit of the Dovecot code 8 See also Edit Free and open source software portalComparison of mail serversReferences Edit Release v2 3 20 22 December 2022 Retrieved 22 December 2022 COPYING LGPL file in dovecot repository Retrieved 2017 10 04 Dovecot website Retrieved 2017 01 18 Sirainen Timo 2019 03 01 Dovecot s global market share grows to 76 Open Xchange Archived from the original on 2020 03 05 Retrieved 2020 03 05 Mailbox Format dbox Dovecot v2 x Wiki 2012 10 30 Retrieved 2013 06 17 v2 2 0 released 2013 04 12 Retrieved 2013 06 17 v2 3 0 released 2017 12 22 Retrieved 2018 03 12 Mozilla Security Audit Retrieved 2017 01 13 External links EditOfficial website Official wiki with how tos and documentation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dovecot software amp oldid 1137636405, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
