dovecot-1.2.13
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.
Source: http://dovecot.org/
Below you can find transcript of configuration and compilation session of Dovecot server and a script which I use for this purpose (as attachement).
root@feniks:~# su - soft soft@feniks:~% cd dovecot soft@feniks:~/dovecot% wget http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.13.tar.gz soft@feniks:~/dovecot% gtar -zxf dovecot-1.2.13.tar.gz soft@feniks:~/dovecot% cp drf_dovecot-1.2.6_conf drf_dovecot-1.2.13_conf soft@feniks:~/dovecot% vi !$
In this configuration file I set up additional paths to OpenLDAP and SSL libraries and optimalization options (for SunStudio).
CFLAGS="-xO3 -xautopar" CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include -I/usr/local/openldap/include -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/openldap/lib -R/usr/local/openldap/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib"
Configuration with use of my script:
soft@feniks:~/dovecot% ./drf_dovecot-1.2.13_conf cc: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-01 2007/07/12 usage: cc [ options] files. Use 'cc -flags' for details PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb CFLAGS=-xO3 -xautopar CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include -I/usr/local/openldap/include -I/usr/local/include CXXFLAGS=-xO3 -xautopar LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/openldap/lib -R/usr/local/openldap/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib ============================================= dmake clean [y|n] ? n ============================================= configure [y|n] ? y checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/local/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk ...
This is important when you will use LDAP for authentication:
checking for ldap_init in -lldap... yes checking ldap.h usability... yes checking ldap.h presence... yes checking for ldap.h... yes checking for ldap_initialize in -lldap... yes checking for ldap_start_tls_s in -lldap... yes checking for ber_free in -lldap... no checking for ber_free in -llber... yes ...
Configuration summary:
Install prefix . : /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13
File offsets ... : 64bit
I/O polling .... : poll
I/O notifys .... : none
SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL)
GSSAPI ......... : no
passdbs ........ : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword ldap
: -bsdauth -sia -sql -vpopmail
userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword ldap
: -sql -vpopmail -nss
SQL drivers .... :
: -pgsql -mysql -sqlite
Compilation time:
============================================= dmake [y|n] ? ydmake all-recursive Making all in src Making all in lib dmake all-am source='array.c' object='array.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/ssl/include -I/usr/local/openldap/include -I/usr/local/include -xO3 -xautopar -I/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8o/include -c array.c ... Making all in doc Making all in wiki cat dovecot-config.in | sed \ -e "s|^moduledir=|moduledir=/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/lib/dovecot|" \ -e "s|^dovecot_incdir=|dovecot_incdir=/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/include/dovecot|" > dovecot-config Compillation successful ============================================= dmake test || dmake check [y|n] ? y dmake: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `test' Making check in src Making check in lib dmake check-am ...
Certain software has set of tests which are called by make test command. Dovecot does not have those tests, so error message is shown and make check is called. The compillation is successful, so you can switch to root and run make install command:
soft@feniks:~/dovecot% exit root@feniks:~# cd /home/soft/dovecot/dovecot-1.2.13 root@feniks:/home/soft/dovecot/dovecot-1.2.13# dmake -m serial install ... test -z "/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/lib/dovecot" || /usr/local/bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/lib/dovecot" test -z "/data/etc/dovecot" || /usr/local/bin/mkdir -p "/data/etc/dovecot" /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 dovecot-example.conf '/data/etc/dovecot' test -z "/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/include/dovecot" || /usr/local/bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/dovecot-1.2.13/include/dovecot"
As you see above I do not care about running service, because I install Dovecot to different directory. When I want to switch to new version then I will stop service, change symbolic link in /usr/local, to new Dovecot and run service. Before upgrade always worth is to read Release Notes, especially when major number of version is changed. If you have possibilities it is worth to test new version on developement server before you run it on production.
