This is a docker compose recipe for creating a local dovecot imap server instance to be used as email client independent central archiving service within a local network.
IMPORTANT: due to the simple default configuration this container is not intendend for providing a public internet facing service.
IMPORTANT: default account in the example is archive:archive, for improved
security consider
- changing the password/account (see below)
- enable ssl (see
data/conf/dovecot.conf)
Installed (below are the debian package names)
- docker-ce
- docker-compose or docker-compose-plugin
Examples based on docker-compose syntax
git clone https://github.com/ckolumbus/local-imap-archive-container.git
cd local-imap-archive-container
docker-compose up -d
cp data/conf/users.example data/conf/users
generate hash entry
docker-compose exec dovecot doveadm pw -s sha256-crypt
add a line
<username>:<hash from above>
to ./data/conf/users
See details here for more options on how to edit the user password file.