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    Home»General Articles»How To Install Dovecot on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 LTS

    How To Install Dovecot on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 LTS

    RahulBy RahulApril 26, 20191 Min ReadUpdated:May 6, 2019

    This tutorial will help you to install Dovecot on Ubuntu systems. Dovecot package provides service for POP/IMAP protocols. With these protocols, you can access emails accounts from remote clients.

    Step 1 – Install Dovecot on Ubuntu

    Dovecot packages are available under default Ubuntu repositories. You can install Dovecot on Ubuntu by running a single command. Open a terminal and execute below command:

    sudo apt install dovecot
    

    Step 2 – Configure Dovecot

    Dovecot is a service used for providing POP/POP3s and IMAP/IMAPs protocols. POP/IMAP protocols are used for fetching emails from email accounts.

    Edit dovecot configuration file and search for below lines and update as below.

    # vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
    
    protocols = imap
    listen = *, ::
    mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
    

    After doing changes just restart dovecot services to reload the configuration changes.

    service dovecot restart
    

    Step 3 – Verify Dovecot Setup

    Test your dovecot setup by fetching emails from your email accounts using IMAP protocol. mutt is a utility to use for fetch emails.

    mutt -f imap://username:[email protected]
    
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