{"id":96,"date":"2015-06-09T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/star.genuinewebhost.com\/~linuxguru\/tutorial\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:22:18","slug":"install-and-configure-dovecot-pop3-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Install and configure Dovecot pop3 server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dovecot is a beautiful pop3 server that works well with most of the linux based mail servers.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the steps mentioned <a title=\"http:\/\/star.genuinewebhost.com\/~linuxguru\/tutorial\/?p=87\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to configure and installation first.<\/p>\n<p>Now install dovecot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>yum install dovecot<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edit the dovecot configuration file<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>vi \/etc\/dovecot\/dovecot.conf<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Un-comment the line<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>protocols = imap pop3 lmtp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edit the following file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>vi \/etc\/dovecot\/conf.d\/10-mail.conf<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Un- comment the following line<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mail_location = maildir:~\/Maildir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edit the following file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>vi \/etc\/dovecot\/conf.d\/10-auth.conf<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Un- comment the following line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>disable_plaintext_auth = yes<\/li>\n<li>Add &#8221; login&#8221; at the end of the line &#8220;auth_mechanisms = plain&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edit the following section in file incase you are using a virtual domain hosting. Else please <strong>skip<\/strong> editing the below file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>vi \/etc\/dovecot\/conf.d\/10-master.conf<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>unix_listener auth-userdb {<\/li>\n<li>mode = 0600<\/li>\n<li>user = &lt;user created for postfix mailbox&gt;<\/li>\n<li>group = &lt;user created for postfix mailbox&gt;<\/li>\n<li>}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now start the dovecot server<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>systemctl start dovecot<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>systemctl enable dovecot<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ensure the pop server is working<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>netstat -na | grep 110<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dovecot is a beautiful pop3 server that works well with most of the linux based mail servers. Follow the steps mentioned here to configure and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=96\" title=\"Install and configure Dovecot pop3 server\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-postfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}