dovecot.md

Setting up dovecot on Ubuntu

There are lots of ways to set up dovecot to work with the GELAM email tests. Here's a fairly straightforward way.

First, install dovecot and postfix:

sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-postfix

Next, create a user named testy with password testy (or, if you prefer, create any user you like and use the environment variables GELAM_TEST_ACCOUNT and GELAM_TEST_PASSWORD to hold the username and password).

To make this work, you'll also have to modify a few config files:

• in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf, set the following variables:

  mail_location = sdbox:~/sdbox
  
  namespace inbox { # this should already exist; append the contents below
    mailbox Trash {
      auto = create # autocreate, but don't autosubscribe
      special_use = \Trash
    }
    mailbox Drafts {
      auto = subscribe # autocreate, autosubscribe
      special_use = \Drafts
    }
    mailbox Sent {
      auto = subscribe # autocreate, autosubscribe
      special_use = \Sent
    }
    mailbox Spam {
      auto = create # autocreate, but don't autosubscribe
      special_use = \Junk
    }
  }
  

• in /etc/dovecont/dovecot.conf, set the following variables:

  disable_plaintext_auth = no
  listen = 127.0.0.1
  

• in /etc/postfix/main.cf, set the following variables:

  smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
  mydestination = localhost
  mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a "$RECIPIENT"