Lmtp

Enable compression on Dovecot storage

2015-07-29 268 words, 2 minutes
bzip
compression
dovecot
imap
lmtp
openbsd

I’ve just discovered than compression can be applied on Dovecot mail storage. Truth is I used to run the delivery via Postfix. Now that I use OpenSMTPD and Dovecot LMTP to deliver the mail, those can be compressed for write (LMTP) and read (IMAP) process. Here’s how.

OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and ldapd on OpenBSD 5.7

2015-07-17 2535 words, 12 minutes
dovecot
imap
ldap
ldapd
lmtp
openbsd
opensmtpd
smtp
spamd

Looking to replace my old Postfix/Dovecot configuration with more native OpenBSD stuff, I finally ended with a configuration than seems suitable to me. I’ll be hosting virtual users and mail aliases in ldapd(8), smtpd(8) will deal with email receiving/sending and dovecot(1) will be in charge of email delivery using LMTP and email reading using IMAP. Of course, spamd(8) will do a bit of work in front of OpenSMTPD. All of those will run on OpenBSD 5.7.