SYNOPSIS
       dovecot [options]

DESCRIPTION
       dovecot is a POP3 and IMAP mail server that can work with standard mbox
       and maildir formats.  It is fully compatible with UW-IMAP  and  Courier
       IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly.

       dovecot  can  be  setup to authenticate against LDAP, Postgres or MySQL
       databases, but by default authentication is with pam(7).

       dovecot is normally started during the system boot, and runs as a back-
       ground  process but it can also be run through inetd(8).  in the latter
       case, the  /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login  or  /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
       binaries are run directly not /usr/sbin/dovecot .


       dovecot will log all of its activities according to syslog.

OPTIONS
       -c <config file>
                   This option changes the default configuration file in which
                   dovecot looks for its configuration.

       -F          dovecot will run in the foreground, and it will  still  log
                   to syslog.

       --version   Print version information and exits.


FILES
       /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
                   Default configuration file.

       /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
                   Additional configuration for LDAP based authentication.

       /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
                   Additional configuration for database based authentication.

       /usr/lib/dovecot
                   Location of dovecot modules.


DEBIAN-SPECIFIC
       dovecot is split into three packages:

       o   dovecot-common contains files used by both servers

       o   dovecot-imapd contains the IMAP server

       o   dovecot-pop3d contains the POP3 server

       wrote  it  for Debian GNU/Linux.  It may be freely used by others under
       the terms of the BSD license.


SEE ALSO
       http://dovecot.org/

       The mailing list: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot