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Section: Dovecot (1)
Updated: 2010-07-02
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NAME
dovecot - a secure and highly configurable IMAP and POP3 server
SYNOPSIS
dovecot [-Fp] [-c config-file]
dovecot -a
[-c config-file]
dovecot -n
[-c config-file]
dovecot --build-options
dovecot --help
dovecot --version
dovecot reload
dovecot stop
DESCRIPTION
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like
systems, written with security primarily in mind.
Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations.
It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it
uses very little memory.
OPTIONS
- -a
-
Dump all configuration settings to stdout and exit successfully.
The same as
doveconf -a.
- -c config-file
-
Start
dovecot
with an alternative configuration.
- -F
-
Run
dovecot
in foreground, do not daemonize.
- -n
-
Dump non-default settings to stdout and exit successfully.
The same as
doveconf -n.
- -p
-
Prompt for the ssl key password for the configured
ssl_key
on startup.
- --build-options
-
Show Dovecot's build options and exit successfully.
- --help
-
Print a usage message to stdout and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Show Dovecot's version and exit successfully.
COMMANDS
- reload
-
Force
dovecot
to reload its configuration.
- stop
-
Shutdown
dovecot
and all its child processes.
When
shutdown_clients
is set to
no,
existing sessions will continue to use the old settings, after a
dovecot reload.
Also all sessions will keep alive after a
dovecot stop.
By default all active sessions will be shut down.
SIGNALS
Dovecot handles the following
signals
as described:
- HUP
-
Force
dovecot
to reload its configuration.
- INT
-
Shutdown
dovecot
and all its child processes.
- TERM
-
Shutdown
dovecot
and all its child processes.
- USR1
-
Force
dovecot
to reopen all configured log files (log_path,
info_log_path and
debug_log_path).
The
signals
ALARM and
PIPE
are ignored.
FILES
- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
-
Dovecot's main configuration file.
- /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
-
Dovecot's LDAP authdb/userdb module configuration file.
- /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
-
Dovecot's SQL authdb/userdb module configuration file.
- /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
-
Dovecot's dict configuration with SQL-backend.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-*-conf.ext
-
Configuration files of different authentication modules.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*.conf
-
Configuration files of different services and settings.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including
doveconf -n
output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>.
Information about reporting bugs is available at:
http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
AUTHOR
Dovecot <http://dovecot.org> and its manual pages were written by the
Dovecot authors <http://dovecot.org/doc/AUTHORS>, mainly Timo Sirainen <tss
at iki.fi>, and are licensed under the terms of the MIT and LGPLv2.1
licenses, see <http://dovecot.org/doc/COPYING> for details.
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1),
doveconf(1),
dovecot-lda(1),
dsync(1)
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
-
- COMMANDS
-
- SIGNALS
-
- FILES
-
- REPORTING BUGS
-
- AUTHOR
-
- SEE ALSO
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