Dovecot


SMTP Authentication (SMTP Auth) provides an access control mechanism that can be used to allow legitimate users to relay mail while denying relay service to unauthorized users, such as spammers.

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LDAP authentication is available in Dovecot starting version 1.0. Since Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services, we can use the LDAP authentication to authenticate Dovecot against an Active Directory server. But for users of Dovecot prior to 1.0 or those having problems with LDAP authentication, we can instead use the Kerberos authentication mechanism in Windows via the Linux PAM.

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This guide will show you how to integrate Active Directory/LDAP into Postfix and Dovecot. In this page, you will learn how to enable Postfix to lookup email addresses in LDAP and how to enable Dovecot to authenticate to an LDAP server.

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Installing and setting up Dovecot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5 is easy. All we have to do is to enable the services we would like to provide and we are good to go.

Install Dovecot

Package Manager1. If you did not add dovecot during the CentOS installation, you can add it now using Package Manager.
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Installing and setting up Dovecot in RHEL 4 or CentOS 4 is easy. All we have to do is to enable the services we would like to provide and we are good to go.

Install Dovecot

Package Management1. If you did not add dovecot during the CentOS installation, you can add it now. Dovecot is located in the package Mail Server. Learn how to add or remove applications here.
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