Dovecot

What it does

Community support

Community support is available through mailing lists and the #dovecot IRC channel on OFTC.checked 8 Oct 2026

Deployment

The download page offers source tarballs and official pre-built Docker images.checked 8 Oct 2026

Intended users

Dovecot Pro is described as built for carrier and enterprise-scale email infrastructure, including telcos and hosting providers.checked 8 Oct 2026

Mail filtering

Integrated Pigeonhole provides server-side filtering with the standardized Sieve language.checked 8 Oct 2026

Package support limits

The community package repositories are provided without official support, warranty, or SLAs.checked 8 Oct 2026

Performance

Dovecot uses advanced indexing and intelligent caching for performance.checked 8 Oct 2026

Protocols

The download page lists IMAP, POP3, and LMTP protocol packages.checked 8 Oct 2026

Reliability

Dovecot is designed to identify and repair common issues such as corrupted index files.checked 8 Oct 2026

Search

Dovecot’s full-text search integration supports message-body and substring searches.checked 8 Oct 2026

Security

Dovecot describes a multi-process architecture that isolates tasks to limit the impact of a vulnerability in one component.checked 8 Oct 2026

Security reporting

The security page directs vulnerability reports to its GPG-encrypted mailbox or YesWeHack bug bounty program.checked 8 Oct 2026

What it does

Dovecot Community Edition is an open-source email server.checked 8 Oct 2026