A Juju charm that deploys and manages Dovecot as an IMAP/POP3 mail server on Ubuntu VMs. Intended for Canonical IS team use.
Like any Juju charm, this charm supports one-line deployment, configuration, integration, scaling, and more. For the Dovecot charm, this includes:
- Multi-protocol mail server: IMAP, IMAPS, POP3, POP3S, Sieve, and LMTP
- TLS/SSL encryption with configurable cipher suites
- Mail filtering with Sieve and Procmail
- Multi-unit deployments with peer-relation-based mail synchronisation
- Scheduled mail syncing between primary and secondary units using cron
- Postfix mail queue management using the
clear-queueaction
For information about how to deploy, integrate, and manage this charm, see the Dovecot charm documentation.
See the basic deployment tutorial for a step-by-step walkthrough.
juju deploy dovecot \
--config mailname=mail.example.com \
--config [email protected] \
--config primary-unit=dovecot/0Clear stuck mail from the Postfix queue:
# Clear only deferred messages (default)
juju run dovecot/0 clear-queue
# Clear all queued messages
juju run dovecot/0 clear-queue queue=allAdjust the mail sync schedule (default: every 30 minutes):
juju config dovecot sync-schedule="*/15 * * * *"See charmcraft.yaml for all available configuration options.
The charm uses a replicas peer relation to synchronise mail between units in a multi-unit deployment. The primary unit is designated with the primary-unit configuration option.
The Dovecot charm is free software, distributed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0. See LICENSE for more details.