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OX Dovecot Pro Repository Installation Guide

The repository access is available only by using a customer-specific username and password. Open-Xchange reserves the right to suspend a user account if the maximum number of servers accessing the repository (50) is exceeded.

A warning email is sent to the account owner before this happens. If you need more than the allowed number of connections, please contact Open-Xchange Support.

For problems in a production environment, please contact Open-Xchange Support. For non-production issues, please refer to your dedicated Open-Xchange account manager or professional services contact.

Repository versions for OX Dovecot Pro

There are two versions of OX Dovecot Pro available: v2.3 and v2.2 (EOL).

OX Dovecot Pro v2.3

Repository details can be found in release specific documentation in OX Dovecot Pro Releases.

OX Dovecot Pro v2.2 (EOL)

See OX Dovecot Pro 2.2 Repository Information.

Installation for RHEL/CentOS

You can see all available OX Dovecot Pro packages with:

yum search dovecot-ee

Commonly you want to install at least:

yum install dovecot-ee dovecot-ee-pigeonhole dovecot-ee-managesieve

Note

CentOS 6 only: See also /etc/sysconfig/dovecot for additional startup settings.

Installation for Debian/Ubuntu

You can see all available OX Dovecot Pro packages with:

apt-cache search dovecot-ee

Commonly you want to install at least:

apt-get install dovecot-ee-core dovecot-ee-imapd dovecot-ee-pop3d \
        dovecot-ee-lmtpd dovecot-ee-sieve dovecot-ee-managesieved

Important

You need to enable Dovecot startup by setting ENABLED=y in /etc/default/dovecot. This file also contains additional startup settings.

Installation for Amazon Linux 2

New in version v2.3.3.

OX Dovecot Pro supports Amazon Linux 2. Earlier versions of Amazon Linux are not supported.

Amazon Linux 2 offers some of the libraries packaged in the Dovecot 3rd party repository. Only the versions distributed via OX repositories are routinely tested with OX Dovecot Pro, so using them is advisable.

In case a newer version is available via the distribution, that can also be considered, but an older version than the one distributed by OX should not be used. If yum priorities plugin is enabled, make sure 3rd party priority is lower than core repositories by adding priority=N, where N is lower than the priority for Amazon Linux 2 packages (10 at the time of writing).