HOME

RedHat/Mail

1- Network	2- Postfix	3- Dovecot	4- Postfixadmin	5- PostfixMariaDB	6- DovecotMariaDB
7- RelaySmtp	8- Troubleshoot	9- Selinux	10- GnomeShell	11- Backup

6. Dovecot-MariaDB

6.1 Part Three (3/3).

Configure Dovecot to use MySQL / MARIADB database.

6.2 Installation.

dnf install -y dovecot-mysql

6.3 Configuration.

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir  
mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%n  

vi /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf

auth_username_format = %u  
!include auth-sql.conf.ext  
#!include auth-system.conf.ext  
auth_debug = yes  
auth_debug_passwords = yes  

vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext

driver = mysql  
connect = host=localhost dbname=postfixadmin user=postfixadmin password=D51mAB49!  
#  
default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT  
#  
password_query = SELECT username AS user,password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'  
#  
user_query = SELECT maildir, 2000 AS uid, 2000 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'  
#  
iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM mailbox  

systemctl restart dovecot

6.4 Test

Create 2 mail accounts from postfixadmin.
Use Thunderbird and add the 2 email accounts.
Send and receive messages between the 2 email accounts.
IMAP 143 TLS , 993 SSL
SMTP 587 TLS , 465 SSL