e-mail indexing with Solr FTS Engine
Solr is a Lucene indexing server. Dovecot communicates to it using HTTP/XML queries. With this indexing server, you can do text searches in your emails. Download latest version: v. 9.8.0 Solr documentation page Solr FTS Engine documentation page for Dovecot Configuring the FTS plugin in dovecot Changelog Mar 5, 2025- version 9.8.0 requires SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS...
Dovecot's vpopmail-auth driver patch
Download the patch Ali Erturk TURKER is maintaining a patch which restores to life the vpopmail-auth driver for Dovecot (more info here). Patch and configure as follows. Be aware that an autoreconf must be provided, as the configure.ac has been modifed. patch -p1 <...
Dovecot vpopmail-auth driver removal. Migrating to the SQL driver
Those who are still using the Dovecot's vpopmail auth driver should consider a migration to another backend, as on January 4, 2021 dovecot-2.3.13 was released and the vpopmail auth driver removed (more info here). I'll show below how to support domain aliases...
Running Dovecot
I have adjusted the startup script distributed by Dovecot and saved it as /usr/local/bin/dovecotctl: #!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: dovecot # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $time # Required-Stop:...
