mail/dovecot24 2.4.5_2

Port info

Maintainer

jordan@ostreff.info

Packages

latest: dovecot24 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-cdb 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-ldap 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-mysql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-pgsql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-sqlite3 2.4.5_2

Upstream

up to date

Last update

2026-09-24 to 2.4.5_2 · 1f63a5459d

Quarterly

2026Q4: dovecot24 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-cdb 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-ldap 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-mysql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-pgsql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-sqlite3 2.4.5_2

WWW

https://www.dovecot.org/

Links

cgit · VuXML

Install

Package

# pkg install dovecot24

# pkg install dovecot24-cdb

# pkg install dovecot24-ldap

# pkg install dovecot24-mysql

# pkg install dovecot24-pgsql

# pkg install dovecot24-sqlite3

installs dovecot24 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-cdb 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-ldap 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-mysql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-pgsql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-sqlite3 2.4.5_2 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) dovecot24 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-cdb 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-ldap 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-mysql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-pgsql 2.4.5_2, dovecot24-sqlite3 2.4.5_2

Port

# cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot24 && make install clean

# make -C /usr/ports/mail/dovecot24 config  # change options first

Size

5.0 MiB download · 26 MiB installed

Depends on

archivers/zstd 1.5.7_2, databases/xapian-core 2.1.0,1, devel/pcre2 10.49, lang/lua54 5.4.8, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, lang/python312 3.12.15, textproc/snowballstemmer 3.1.1

License

LGPL21 or MIT

Creates

user dovecot, dovenull, group dovecot, dovenull

Options

5 of 20 on in the package: DOCS EXAMPLES GSSAPI_NONE LUA UTF8

Show the 15 options that are off

CDB GSSAPI_BASE GSSAPI_HEIMDAL GSSAPI_MIT ICU IMAP4REV2 LDAP LIBSODIUM LIBUNWIND LZ4 MYSQL PGSQL SOLR SQLITE TEXTCAT

pkg-message

Shown after installing

Please check the configuration file at /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
 and edit it as desired.
 The default configuration includes IMAP and POP3 services, will
 authenticate users agains the system's passwd file, and will use
 the default /var/mail/$USER mbox files.

 Next, enable dovecot in /etc/rc.conf:

	dovecot_enable="YES"


 To avoid a risk of mailbox corruption, do not set the
 security.bsd.see_other_uids or .see_other_gids sysctls to 0
 if Dovecot is storing mail for multiple concurrent users (PR 218392).

 Similarly, setting sysctls security.bsd.hardlink_check_uid or
 security.bsd.hardlink_check_gid to 1 might result in non-working
 mailboxes, depending on what mailbox locking mechanism is used
 (PR 242223).

 If you want to be able to search within attachments using the
 decode2text plugin, you'll need to install textproc/catdoc, and
 one of graphics/xpdf or graphics/poppler-utils.


 There are some breaking changes in Dovecot 2.4.x. If you  are
 upgrading from earlier version of Dovecot, make sure to read
 the upgrade guide and adjust the configuration accordingly:

   * https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.5/installation/upgrade/overview.html

Shown after removing

If you are removing dovecot permanently, you should 'rm -rf /var/db/dovecot' to
clear out any remaining data.

Note

Size, dependencies, options and messages are those of dovecot24.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

quarterly (2026Q4)

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