From 50f8756278661d38cd3b1341fe55265a082702f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthijs Kooijman Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dovecot: Add default configuration. --- etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | 1249 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 1249 insertions(+) create mode 100644 etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf diff --git a/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf b/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9ce889 --- /dev/null +++ b/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf @@ -0,0 +1,1249 @@ +## Dovecot configuration file + +# If you're in a hurry, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration + +# "dovecot -n" command gives a clean output of the changed settings. Use it +# instead of copy&pasting this file when posting to the Dovecot mailing list. + +# '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces +# and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the +# value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " + +# Default values are shown for each setting, it's not required to uncomment +# any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples with +# the real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here +# are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var +# --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl + +# Base directory where to store runtime data. +#base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ + +# Protocols we want to be serving: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve +# If you only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to "none". +#protocols = imap imaps + +# A space separated list of IP or host addresses where to listen in for +# connections. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. "[::]" listens in all IPv6 +# interfaces. Use "*, [::]" for listening both IPv4 and IPv6. +# +# If you want to specify ports for each service, you will need to configure +# these settings inside the protocol imap/pop3/managesieve { ... } section, +# so you can specify different ports for IMAP/POP3/MANAGESIEVE. For example: +# protocol imap { +# listen = *:10143 +# ssl_listen = *:10943 +# .. +# } +# protocol pop3 { +# listen = *:10100 +# .. +# } +# protocol managesieve { +# listen = *:12000 +# .. +# } +#listen = * + +# Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless +# SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that if the remote IP +# matches the local IP (ie. you're connecting from the same computer), the +# connection is considered secure and plaintext authentication is allowed. +#disable_plaintext_auth = yes + +# Should all IMAP and POP3 processes be killed when Dovecot master process +# shuts down. Setting this to "no" means that Dovecot can be upgraded without +# forcing existing client connections to close (although that could also be +# a problem if the upgrade is eg. because of a security fix). This however +# means that after master process has died, the client processes can't write +# to log files anymore. +#shutdown_clients = yes + +## +## Logging +## + +# Log file to use for error messages, instead of sending them to syslog. +# /dev/stderr can be used to log into stderr. +#log_path = + +# Log file to use for informational and debug messages. +# Default is the same as log_path. +#info_log_path = + +# Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) +# format. +#log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " + +# Syslog facility to use if you're logging to syslog. Usually if you don't +# want to use "mail", you'll use local0..local7. Also other standard +# facilities are supported. +#syslog_facility = mail + +## +## SSL settings +## + +# IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Remember to also +# add imaps and/or pop3s to protocols setting. Defaults to same as "listen" +# setting if not specified. +#ssl_listen = + +# SSL/TLS support: yes, no, required. +#ssl = yes + +# PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before +# dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but +# root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed +# certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf +#ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem +#ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem + +# If key file is password protected, give the password here. Alternatively +# give it when starting dovecot with -p parameter. Since this file is often +# world-readable, you may want to place this setting instead to a different +# root owned 0600 file by using !include_try . +#ssl_key_password = + +# File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Set this only if you +# intend to use ssl_verify_client_cert=yes. The CAfile should contain the +# CA-certificate(s) followed by the matching CRL(s). +#ssl_ca_file = + +# Request client to send a certificate. If you also want to require it, set +# ssl_require_client_cert=yes in auth section. +#ssl_verify_client_cert = no + +# Which field from certificate to use for username. commonName and +# x500UniqueIdentifier are the usual choices. You'll also need to set +# ssl_username_from_cert=yes. +#ssl_cert_username_field = commonName + +# How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU +# intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration +# entirely. +#ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 + +# SSL ciphers to use +#ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 + +# Show protocol level SSL errors. +#verbose_ssl = no + +## +## Login processes +## + +# + +# Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets +# which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when +# running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that +# everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. +#login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login + +# chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you +# wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. +#login_chroot = yes + +# User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, +# and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where +# only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. +# Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. +#login_user = dovecot + +# Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use +# login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. +#login_process_size = 64 + +# Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one +# login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more +# secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need +# to create processes all the time. +#login_process_per_connection = yes + +# Number of login processes to keep for listening new connections. +#login_processes_count = 3 + +# Maximum number of login processes to create. The listening process count +# usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging +# in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing +# we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all +# of them are used at the time, we double their amount until the limit set by +# this setting is reached. +#login_max_processes_count = 128 + +# Maximum number of connections allowed per each login process. This setting +# is used only if login_process_per_connection=no. Once the limit is reached, +# the process notifies master so that it can create a new login process. +#login_max_connections = 256 + +# Greeting message for clients. +#login_greeting = Dovecot ready. + +# Space separated list of trusted network ranges. Connections from these +# IPs are allowed to override their IP addresses and ports (for logging and +# for authentication checks). disable_plaintext_auth is also ignored for +# these networks. Typically you'd specify your IMAP proxy servers here. +#login_trusted_networks = + +# Space-separated list of elements we want to log. The elements which have +# a non-empty variable value are joined together to form a comma-separated +# string. +#login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c + +# Login log format. %$ contains login_log_format_elements string, %s contains +# the data we want to log. +#login_log_format = %$: %s + +## +## Mailbox locations and namespaces +## + +# Location for users' mailboxes. This is the same as the old default_mail_env +# setting. The default is empty, which means that Dovecot tries to find the +# mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user doesn't have any mail +# yet, so you should explicitly tell Dovecot the full location. +# +# If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u) +# isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes are +# kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first +# path given in the mail_location setting. +# +# There are a few special variables you can use, eg.: +# +# %u - username +# %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain +# %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain +# %h - home directory +# +# See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: +# +# mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir +# mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u +# mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n +# +# +# +#mail_location = + +# If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default +# namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections. +# +# You can have private, shared and public namespaces. Private namespaces +# are for user's personal mails. Shared namespaces are for accessing other +# users' mailboxes that have been shared. Public namespaces are for shared +# mailboxes that are managed by sysadmin. If you create any shared or public +# namespaces you'll typically want to enable ACL plugin also, otherwise all +# users can access all the shared mailboxes, assuming they have permissions +# on filesystem level to do so. +# +# REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added +# explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace +# without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a +# namespace with empty prefix. +#namespace private { + # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all + # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. + # The default however depends on the underlying mail storage format. + #separator = + + # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for + # all namespaces. For example "Public/". + #prefix = + + # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as + # mail_location, which is also the default for it. + #location = + + # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace + # has it. + #inbox = no + + # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE + # extension. You'll most likely also want to set list=no. This is mostly + # useful when converting from another server with different namespaces which + # you want to deprecate but still keep working. For example you can create + # hidden namespaces with prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". + #hidden = yes + + # Show the mailboxes under this namespace with LIST command. This makes the + # namespace visible for clients that don't support NAMESPACE extension. + # "children" value lists child mailboxes, but hides the namespace prefix. + #list = yes + + # Namespace handles its own subscriptions. If set to "no", the parent + # namespace handles them (empty prefix should always have this as "yes") + #subscriptions = yes +#} + +# Example shared namespace configuration +#namespace shared { + #separator = / + + # Mailboxes are visible under "shared/user@domain/" + # %%n, %%d and %%u are expanded to the destination user. + #prefix = shared/%%u/ + + # Mail location for other users' mailboxes. Note that %variables and ~/ + # expands to the logged in user's data. %%n, %%d, %%u and %%h expand to the + # destination user's data. + #location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u + + # Use the default namespace for saving subscriptions. + #subscriptions = no + + # List the shared/ namespace only if there are visible shared mailboxes. + #list = children +#} + +# System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple, userdb +# can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use either numbers +# or names. +#mail_uid = +#mail_gid = + +# Group to enable temporarily for privileged operations. Currently this is +# used only with INBOX when either its initial creation or dotlocking fails. +# Typically this is set to "mail" to give access to /var/mail. +#mail_privileged_group = + +# Grant access to these supplementary groups for mail processes. Typically +# these are used to set up access to shared mailboxes. Note that it may be +# dangerous to set these if users can create symlinks (e.g. if "mail" group is +# set here, ln -s /var/mail ~/mail/var could allow a user to delete others' +# mailboxes, or ln -s /secret/shared/box ~/mail/mybox would allow reading it). +#mail_access_groups = + +# Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than +# what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both +# maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ +# or ~user/. +#mail_full_filesystem_access = no + +## +## Mail processes +## + +# Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot +# isn't finding your mails. +#mail_debug = no + +# Log prefix for mail processes. See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for list of +# possible variables you can use. +#mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " + +# Max. number of lines a mail process is allowed to log per second before it's +# throttled. 0 means unlimited. Typically there's no need to change this +# unless you're using mail_log plugin, which may log a lot. This setting is +# ignored while mail_debug=yes to avoid pointless throttling. +#mail_log_max_lines_per_sec = 10 + +# Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes to shared +# filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). +#mmap_disable = no + +# Rely on O_EXCL to work when creating dotlock files. NFS supports O_EXCL +# since version 3, so this should be safe to use nowadays by default. +#dotlock_use_excl = yes + +# Don't use fsync() or fdatasync() calls. This makes the performance better +# at the cost of potential data loss if the server (or the file server) +# goes down. +#fsync_disable = no + +# Mail storage exists in NFS. Set this to yes to make Dovecot flush NFS caches +# whenever needed. If you're using only a single mail server this isn't needed. +#mail_nfs_storage = no +# Mail index files also exist in NFS. Setting this to yes requires +# mmap_disable=yes and fsync_disable=no. +#mail_nfs_index = no + +# Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. +# Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking +# methods. NFS users: flock doesn't work, remember to change mmap_disable. +#lock_method = fcntl + +# Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly +# meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small +# security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could +# ptrace() each others processes then. +#mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no + +# Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and +# IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes +# (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). +#verbose_proctitle = no + +# Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly +# to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. +# Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't +# be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. +#first_valid_uid = 500 +#last_valid_uid = 0 + +# Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having +# non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user +# belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are +# not set. +#first_valid_gid = 1 +#last_valid_gid = 0 + +# Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, +# new users aren't allowed to log in. +#max_mail_processes = 512 + +# Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing +# files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. +#mail_process_size = 256 + +# Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying +# to create new keywords. +#mail_max_keyword_length = 50 + +# ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail +# processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). +# This setting doesn't affect login_chroot, mail_chroot or auth chroot +# settings. If this setting is empty, "/./" in home dirs are ignored. +# WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that +# may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't +# allow shell access for users. +#valid_chroot_dirs = + +# Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for +# specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory +# (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real +# need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside +# their mail directory anyway. If your home directories are prefixed with +# the chroot directory, append "/." to mail_chroot. +#mail_chroot = + +## +## Mailbox handling optimizations +## + +# The minimum number of mails in a mailbox before updates are done to cache +# file. This allows optimizing Dovecot's behavior to do less disk writes at +# the cost of more disk reads. +#mail_cache_min_mail_count = 0 + +# When IDLE command is running, mailbox is checked once in a while to see if +# there are any new mails or other changes. This setting defines the minimum +# time in seconds to wait between those checks. Dovecot can also use dnotify, +# inotify and kqueue to find out immediately when changes occur. +#mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 + +# Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails +# take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. +# But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. +# Also note that if other software reads the mboxes/maildirs, they may handle +# the extra CRs wrong and cause problems. +#mail_save_crlf = no + +## +## Maildir-specific settings +## + +# By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with a dot. +# Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. +# This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. +# (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's +# done always regardless of this setting) +#maildir_stat_dirs = no + +# When copying a message, do it with hard links whenever possible. This makes +# the performance much better, and it's unlikely to have any side effects. +#maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes + +# When copying a message, try to preserve the base filename. Only if the +# destination mailbox already contains the same name (ie. the mail is being +# copied there twice), a new name is given. The destination filename check is +# done only by looking at dovecot-uidlist file, so if something outside +# Dovecot does similar filename preserving copies, you may run into problems. +# NOTE: This setting requires maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes to work. +#maildir_copy_preserve_filename = no + +# Assume Dovecot is the only MUA accessing Maildir: Scan cur/ directory only +# when its mtime changes unexpectedly or when we can't find the mail otherwise. +#maildir_very_dirty_syncs = no + +## +## mbox-specific settings +## + +# Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There are four available: +# dotlock: Create .lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe +# solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users +# will need write access to that directory. +# dotlock_try: Same as dotlock, but if it fails because of permissions or +# because there isn't enough disk space, just skip it. +# fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. +# flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. +# lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. +# +# You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared +# in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple +# locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of +# them simultaneously. +#mbox_read_locks = fcntl +#mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl + +# Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. +#mbox_lock_timeout = 300 + +# If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the +# lock file after this many seconds. +#mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 120 + +# When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what +# changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change +# is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the +# new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely +# fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't +# how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if +# some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. +# Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK +# commands. +#mbox_dirty_syncs = yes + +# Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, +# EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. +#mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no + +# Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK +# commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 +# where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes +# aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. +#mbox_lazy_writes = yes + +# If mbox size is smaller than this (in kilobytes), don't write index files. +# If an index file already exists it's still read, just not updated. +#mbox_min_index_size = 0 + +## +## dbox-specific settings +## + +# Maximum dbox file size in kilobytes until it's rotated. +#dbox_rotate_size = 2048 + +# Minimum dbox file size in kilobytes before it's rotated +# (overrides dbox_rotate_days) +#dbox_rotate_min_size = 16 + +# Maximum dbox file age in days until it's rotated. Day always begins from +# midnight, so 1 = today, 2 = yesterday, etc. 0 = check disabled. +#dbox_rotate_days = 0 + +## +## IMAP specific settings +## + +protocol imap { + # Login executable location. + #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login + + # IMAP executable location. Changing this allows you to execute other + # binaries before the imap process is executed. + # + # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: + # mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap + # + # This would attach gdb into the imap process and write backtraces into + # /tmp/gdbhelper.* files: + # mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap + # + #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap + + # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long + # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get + # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. + #imap_max_line_length = 65536 + + # Maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address. + # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. + #mail_max_userip_connections = 10 + + # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated + # list of plugins to load. + #mail_plugins = + #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap + + # IMAP logout format string: + # %i - total number of bytes read from client + # %o - total number of bytes sent to client + #imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o + + # Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. + #imap_capability = + + # ID field names and values to send to clients. Using * as the value makes + # Dovecot use the default value. The following fields have default values + # currently: name, version, os, os-version, support-url, support-email. + #imap_id_send = + + # ID fields sent by client to log. * means everything. + #imap_id_log = + + # Workarounds for various client bugs: + # delay-newmail: + # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP + # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example OSX + # Mail (= 2.1.4) : %v.%u + # Dovecot v0.99.x : %v.%u + # tpop3d : %Mf + # + # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was + # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good + # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. + # + #pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv + + # POP3 logout format string: + # %i - total number of bytes read from client + # %o - total number of bytes sent to client + # %t - number of TOP commands + # %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command + # %r - number of RETR commands + # %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command + # %d - number of deleted messages + # %m - number of messages (before deletion) + # %s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion) + #pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s + + # Maximum number of POP3 connections allowed for a user from each IP address. + # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. + #mail_max_userip_connections = 3 + + # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated + # list of plugins to load. + #mail_plugins = + #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 + + # Workarounds for various client bugs: + # outlook-no-nuls: + # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. + # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. + # oe-ns-eoh: + # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is + # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. + # The list is space-separated. + #pop3_client_workarounds = +} + +## +## MANAGESIEVE specific settings +## + +protocol managesieve { + # Login executable location. + #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login + + # MANAGESIEVE executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for + # examples how this could be changed. + #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve + + # Maximum MANAGESIEVE command line length in bytes. This setting is + # directly borrowed from IMAP. But, since long command lines are very + # unlikely with MANAGESIEVE, changing this will not be very useful. + #managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 + + # If, for some inobvious reason, the sieve_storage remains unset, the + # managesieve daemon uses the specification of the mail_location to find out + # where to store the sieve files (see explaination in README.managesieve). + # The example below, when uncommented, overrides any global mail_location + # specification and stores all the scripts in '~/mail/sieve' if sieve_storage + # is unset. However, you should always use the sieve_storage setting. + # mail_location = mbox:~/mail + + # To fool managesieve clients that are focused on timesieved you can + # specify the IMPLEMENTATION capability that the dovecot reports to clients + # (default: dovecot). + #managesieve_implementation_string = Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 +} + +## +## LDA specific settings +## + +protocol lda { + # Address to use when sending rejection mails. + postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com + + # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. + # Default is the system's real hostname. + #hostname = + + # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated + # list of plugins to load. + #mail_plugins = + #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/lda + + # If user is over quota, return with temporary failure instead of + # bouncing the mail. + #quota_full_tempfail = no + + # Format to use for logging mail deliveries. You can use variables: + # %$ - Delivery status message (e.g. "saved to INBOX") + # %m - Message-ID + # %s - Subject + # %f - From address + #deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ + + # Binary to use for sending mails. + #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail + + # Subject: header to use for rejection mails. You can use the same variables + # as for rejection_reason below. + #rejection_subject = Rejected: %s + + # Human readable error message for rejection mails. You can use variables: + # %n = CRLF, %r = reason, %s = original subject, %t = recipient + #rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r + + # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. + #auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master +} + +## +## Authentication processes +## + +# Executable location +#auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth + +# Set max. process size in megabytes. +#auth_process_size = 256 + +# Authentication cache size in kilobytes. 0 means it's disabled. +# Note that bsdauth, PAM and vpopmail require cache_key to be set for caching +# to be used. +#auth_cache_size = 0 +# Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds the cached +# record is no longer used, *except* if the main database lookup returns +# internal failure. We also try to handle password changes automatically: If +# user's previous authentication was successful, but this one wasn't, the +# cache isn't used. For now this works only with plaintext authentication. +#auth_cache_ttl = 3600 +# TTL for negative hits (user not found). 0 disables caching them completely. +#auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600 + +# Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need +# them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. +# Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm +# first. +#auth_realms = + +# Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both +# SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. +#auth_default_realm = + +# List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains +# a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just +# an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping +# vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, +# set this value to empty. +#auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ + +# Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The +# value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means +# that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. +#auth_username_translation = + +# Username formatting before it's looked up from databases. You can use +# the standard variables here, eg. %Lu would lowercase the username, %n would +# drop away the domain if it was given, or "%n-AT-%d" would change the '@' into +# "-AT-". This translation is done after auth_username_translation changes. +#auth_username_format = + +# If you want to allow master users to log in by specifying the master +# username within the normal username string (ie. not using SASL mechanism's +# support for it), you can specify the separator character here. The format +# is then . UW-IMAP uses "*" as the +# separator, so that could be a good choice. +#auth_master_user_separator = + +# Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism +#auth_anonymous_username = anonymous + +# More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't +# working. +#auth_verbose = no + +# Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL +# queries. +#auth_debug = no + +# In case of password mismatches, log the passwords and used scheme so the +# problem can be debugged. Enabling this also enables auth_debug. +#auth_debug_passwords = no + +# Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute +# blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're +# automatically created and destroyed as needed. +#auth_worker_max_count = 30 + +# Host name to use in GSSAPI principal names. The default is to use the +# name returned by gethostname(). Use "$ALL" to allow all keytab entries. +#auth_gssapi_hostname = + +# Kerberos keytab to use for the GSSAPI mechanism. Will use the system +# default (usually /etc/krb5.keytab) if not specified. +#auth_krb5_keytab = + +# Do NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO authentication using Samba's winbind daemon and +# ntlm_auth helper. +#auth_use_winbind = no + +# Path for Samba's ntlm_auth helper binary. +#auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth + +# Number of seconds to delay before replying to failed authentications. +#auth_failure_delay = 2 + +auth default { + # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: + # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi otp skey + # gss-spnego + # NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting. + mechanisms = plain + + # + # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). + # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to + # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without + # duplicating the system users into virtual database. + # + # + # + # By adding master=yes setting inside a passdb you make the passdb a list + # of "master users", who can log in as anyone else. Unless you're using PAM, + # you probably still want the destination user to be looked up from passdb + # that it really exists. This can be done by adding pass=yes setting to the + # master passdb. + + # Users can be temporarily disabled by adding a passdb with deny=yes. + # If the user is found from that database, authentication will fail. + # The deny passdb should always be specified before others, so it gets + # checked first. Here's an example: + + #passdb passwd-file { + # File contains a list of usernames, one per line + #args = /etc/dovecot.deny + #deny = yes + #} + + # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. + # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, + # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user + # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. + # REMEMBER: You'll need /etc/pam.d/dovecot file created for PAM + # authentication to actually work. + passdb pam { + # [session=yes] [setcred=yes] [failure_show_msg=yes] [max_requests=] + # [cache_key=] [] + # + # session=yes makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some + # PAM plugins need this to work, such as pam_mkhomedir. + # + # setcred=yes makes Dovecot establish PAM credentials if some PAM plugins + # need that. They aren't ever deleted though, so this isn't enabled by + # default. + # + # max_requests specifies how many PAM lookups to do in one process before + # recreating the process. The default is 100, because many PAM plugins + # leak memory. + # + # cache_key can be used to enable authentication caching for PAM + # (auth_cache_size also needs to be set). It isn't enabled by default + # because PAM modules can do all kinds of checks besides checking password, + # such as checking IP address. Dovecot can't know about these checks + # without some help. cache_key is simply a list of variables (see + # doc/wiki/Variables.txt) which must match for the cached data to be used. + # Here are some examples: + # %u - Username must match. Probably sufficient for most uses. + # %u%r - Username and remote IP address must match. + # %u%s - Username and service (ie. IMAP, POP3) must match. + # + # The service name can contain variables, for example %Ls expands to + # pop3 or imap. + # + # Some examples: + # args = session=yes %Ls + # args = cache_key=%u dovecot + #args = dovecot + } + + # System users (NSS, /etc/passwd, or similiar) + # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is + # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. + #passdb passwd { + # [blocking=yes] - See userdb passwd for explanation + #args = + #} + + # Shadow passwords for system users (NSS, /etc/shadow or similiar). + # Deprecated by PAM nowadays. + # + #passdb shadow { + # [blocking=yes] - See userdb passwd for explanation + #args = + #} + + # PAM-like authentication for OpenBSD. + # + #passdb bsdauth { + # [cache_key=] - See cache_key in PAM for explanation. + #args = + #} + + # passwd-like file with specified location + # + #passdb passwd-file { + # [scheme=] [username_format=] + # + #args = + #} + + # checkpassword executable authentication + # NOTE: You will probably want to use "userdb prefetch" with this. + # + #passdb checkpassword { + # Path for checkpassword binary + #args = + #} + + # SQL database + #passdb sql { + # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql-example.conf + #args = + #} + + # LDAP database + #passdb ldap { + # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap-example.conf + #args = + #} + + # vpopmail authentication + #passdb vpopmail { + # [cache_key=] - See cache_key in PAM for explanation. + # [quota_template=