From Courier to Dovecot

Fact

I switched my IMAP server from Courier to Dovecot.

Reason

I was never really fond of Courier. It is a capable but cumbersome system.
Since “everybody” was talking about Dovecot and it was made the default IMAP server for various systems, I decided to try it myself.

Process

Quite easy.

  • Install with Apt.
  • Create the database user for Dovecot.
  • Fiddle with the SQL configuration (don’t forget to uncomment the sql section in dovecot.conf).
  • Fiddle with the directory settings (it still does not take individual mail directories from the database).
  • Change my password in the database (very easy with dovecotpw).
  • Reindex my mails with Thunderbird.

Result

😀