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diff --git a/network/dovecot/README b/network/dovecot/README index 533ab1e36a962..16e081ed54605 100644 --- a/network/dovecot/README +++ b/network/dovecot/README @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ -This script builds dovecot with support for SSL. As such, you must have -openssl installed - openssl-solibs is not enough in itself to meet this -requirement. Additionally, dovecot will be compiled with POP3 support. +Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email 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. -You should create a dovecot user to run the login processes on your server. -Something like this should work: -[root@host] # groupadd -g 202 dovecot -[root@host] # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 202 -g 202 dovecot +This script builds dovecot with support for SSL. As such, you must have openssl +installed - openssl-solibs is not enough in itself to meet this requirement. -See the documentation in /usr/doc/dovecot-2.2.13/ to get started. +This script doesn't add dovecot users and groups, instead it offers sane defaults +that won't conflict with system users and groups, and other scripts from the SBo. + +See the documentation in /usr/doc/dovecot-2.2.19/ to get started. |