POP / IMAP 是 MUA 从邮件服务器中读取邮件时使用的协议。其中，与 POP3 是从邮件服务器中下载邮件比起来，IMAP4 则是将邮件留在服务器端直接对邮件进行管理、操作。而Dovecot 是一个比较新的软件，由 Timo Sirainen 开发，最初发布于 2002年7月。作者将安全性考虑在第一，所以 Dovecot 在安全性方面比较出众。另外，Dovecot 支持多种认证方式，所以在功能方面也比较符合一般的应用。
2012-11-29发布2.1.11 上一个版本是2012年09月18日的2.1.10.修正了一些bug.
改进：
* lmtp/lda: dovecot.index.cache file is no longer fully mapped to
memory, allowing mail deliveries to work even if the file is huge.
* auth: userdb passwd lookups are now done by auth worker processes
instead of auth master process (as it was documented, but
accidentally didn't work that way).
+ lmtp: lmtp_rcpt_check_quota=yes setting checks quota on RCPT TO.
- lmtp: After successful proxying RCPT TO, the next one to a
nonexistent user gave tempfail error instead of "user not found".
- lmtp proxy: Fixed hanging if remote server was down.
- imap: Fixed crash when SEARCH contained multiple KEYWORD parameters.
- doveadm: Various fixes to handling doveadm-server connections.
- -i
- director was somewhat broken in v2.1.10. This version also includes
various reliability enhancements.
- auth: passdb imap was broken in v2.1.10.
下载：http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.11.tar.gz
主页：http://www.dovecot.org/
来自:开源中国社区