From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:50:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: updates about running it
X-Git-Tag: 1.1.alpha1~4198
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=475b81bf0718d4b2f6f745ecdfa65966d8faf2dd;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git

updates about running it

--HG--
branch : HEAD
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 8170b013ad..869c7e573c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,13 +7,7 @@ For most people, the usual:
   make
   sudo make install
 
-is enough. This installs Dovecot under /usr/local. You must also rename the
-configuration file to get it to work:
-
-  mv /usr/local/etc/dovecot-example.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
-
-Read through it, make needed modifications and start dovecot binary.
-doc/configuration.txt tells you more about configuring Dovecot.
+is enough. This installs Dovecot under /usr/local.
 
 If you have installed some libraries into locations which require special
 include or library paths, you can give them in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
@@ -22,6 +16,24 @@ environment variables. For example:
   CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure
 
 
+Running
+-------
+
+Rename configuration file:
+
+  mv /usr/local/etc/dovecot-example.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
+
+Read through, and make needed modifications. doc/configuration.txt tells
+you more about configuring Dovecot.
+
+Once everything is configured, there's two ways to start Dovecot:
+
+ 1) Run "dovecot" binary which does everything.
+
+ 2) Start it via inetd or similiar by executing "imap-login" or "pop3-login"
+    binaries. If you're listening in SSL port, add --ssl parameter.
+
+
 SSL/TLS
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