Dovecot (software)
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| Developed by | Timo Sirainen and contributors |
| Latest release | 1.0.14 / June 2, 2008 |
| Preview release | 1.1rc7 / May 30, 2008 |
| OS | UNIX-like |
| Genre | 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.
Dovecot can work with standard mbox, Maildir, and its own experimental native high-performance dbox formats. [1] 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.
