Original author(s) | Timo Sirainen |
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Developer(s) | Timo Sirainen and contributors |
Initial release | July 2002 |
Stable release | 2.0.16[1] / November 17, 2011 |
Operating system | UNIX-like |
Type | POP3 and IMAP server |
License | Mostly MIT and LGPL |
Website | http://www.dovecot.org |
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Developed by Timo Sirainen, Dovecot was first released in July 2002. Dovecot primarily aims to be a lightweight, fast and easy to set up open source mailserver.
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Dovecot can work with standard mbox, Maildir, and its own experimental native high-performance dbox formats.[2] It is fully compatible with UW IMAP and Courier IMAP servers’ implementation of them, as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly.
Dovecot also includes a Mail delivery agent (called Local delivery agent in Dovecot’s documentation), with optional Sieve filtering support.
Dovecot supports a variety of authentication schemas for IMAP and POP access including CRAM-MD5 and the more secure DIGEST-MD5.
Apple Inc. includes Dovecot for email services in Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Dovecot's author takes pride in secure design and implementation. A reward of EUR 1,000 (approximately $1,427 USD, £882 GBP as of June 2011) has been announced for finding any remotely exploitable security flaw.[3]