Dovecot Mail Service In Linux – Start, Stop, Restart, Reload, Status, Enable

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems.

• Start:

  service dovecot start

  or

  systemctl start dovecot

• Stop:

  service dovecot stop

  or

  systemctl stop dovecot

• Restart:

  service dovecot restart

  or

  systemctl restart dovecot

• Reload:

  service dovecot reload

  or

  systemctl reload dovecot

• Status:

  service dovecot status

  or

  systemctl status dovecot

• Enable Dovecot Mail Service on Boot

  chkconfig dovecot on

  or

  systemctl enable dovecot

• Dovecot default configuration file location

  vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf