Audience

Anyone in need of a high-performing IMAP server

About Dovecot

Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations.

Dovecot is among the best performing IMAP servers while still supporting the standard mbox and Maildir formats. The mailboxes are transparently indexed, which gives Dovecot its good performance while still providing full compatibility with existing mailbox handling tools.

Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot passes all IMAP server standard compliancy tests while most other servers fail many of them.

Dovecot’s indexes are self-optimizing. They contain exactly what the user’s client commonly needs, no more and no less.

Dovecot is self-healing. It tries to fix most of the problems it notices by itself, such as broken index files. The problems are however logged so the administrator can later try to figure out what caused them.

Dovecot tries to be admin-friendly. Common error messages are made as easily understandable as possible.

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Dovecot
Founded: 2000
www.dovecot.org

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