installing Dovecot on MacOsX using MacPorts

• master howto: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupDovecot

• Install

  sudo port install dovecot
  sudo port load dovecot

• Configure

  sudo cp /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-example.conf  /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
  
  sudo vim /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf 

• Mine reads (it's just meant to access imap files from the local mail server and not to serve outside the localhost):

  protocols = imap
  listen = localhost:10143
  disable_plaintext_auth = no 
  ssl = no
  mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
  protocol imap {
  }
  auth default {
    mechanisms = plain
    passdb pam {
      args = login 
    }
    userdb passwd {
        args =
    }
  user = root
  dict {
  }

• Reload

  sudo launchctl stop org.macports.dovecot
  sudo launchctl start org.macports.dovecot

• It does not work on the first try... so read documentation

  less /opt/local//share/doc/dovecot/documentation.txt 
  less /opt/local//share/doc/dovecot/auth-protocol.txt 
  less /opt/local//share/doc/dovecot/wiki/PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt 

• Authentification

    ls -l /etc/pam.d/
    sudo vim /etc/pam.d/dovecot

  with /etc/pam.d/dovecot being

  auth       required       pam_permit.so
  account    required       pam_permit.so
  password   required       pam_deny.so
  session    required       pam_uwtmp.so

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