335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiBuild Instructions
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335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiFor most people, the usual:
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki Tuomisudo make install
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki Tuomiis enough. This installs Dovecot under /usr/local.
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiIf you have installed some libraries into locations which require special include or library paths, you can give them in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables. For example:
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki Tuomi`CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure`
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiSee `./configure --help` for a list of all available configure options.
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiSee [http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource) for more information.
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiStart with the example configuration:
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki Tuomicp -r /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/* /usr/local/etc/dovecot/
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiRead through, and make needed modifications.
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiOnce everything is configured, start Dovecot by running "dovecot" binary.
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiSee Wiki for more information about configuration. If you're in a hurry, go at least through [http://wiki2.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration)
335ac4abc3f30859f9f9a47072d40271f4c85922Aki TuomiDovecot used to support both GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries, but nowadays only the OpenSSL code is working.