Integrations

Dovecot Obox

Description

Dovecot Obox is a dovecot plugin available in Dovecot Pro. It adds support to Dovecot for mail storage in object storage.

This guide will explain how to configure dovecot to use OpenIO.

Prerequisites

  • Dovecot Pro installed and setup.
  • OpenIO cluster configured with the Swift/S3 proxy.

Bucket is configured to be accessed using virtual addressing (eg. http://mybucket.openio.localdomain:6007).

Have these values ready:

  • Bucket URL BUCKET_URL
  • Access key ACCESS_KEY
  • Secret access key SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Configuration

Create a new file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/11-obox.conf:

mail_plugins = $mail_plugins obox

mail_location = obox:%2Mu/%2.3Mu/%u:INDEX=~/:CONTROL=~/

plugin {
  obox_use_object_ids = yes

  obox_fs = fscache 1G:/var/cache/dovecot:s3:http://ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_ACCESS_KEY@BUCKET_URL
}

Apply the changes by reloading dovecot configuration:

$ sudo doveconf reload