Dovecot

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Dovecot is an open source email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
2.4 7 months ago
(24 Jan 2025)
Yes Yes 2.4.1
(28 Mar 2025)
2.3 7 years ago
(22 Dec 2017)
Ended 7 months ago
(24 Jan 2025)
Yes 2.3.21.1
(14 Aug 2024)
2.2 12 years ago
(11 Apr 2013)
Ended 7 years ago
(22 Dec 2017)
Ended 7 months ago
(24 Jan 2025)
2.2.36.4
(28 Aug 2019)
2.1 13 years ago
(16 Feb 2012)
Ended 12 years ago
(11 Apr 2013)
Ended 7 years ago
(22 Dec 2017)
2.1.16
(05 Apr 2013)
2.0 15 years ago
(16 Aug 2010)
Ended 13 years ago
(16 Feb 2012)
Ended 12 years ago
(11 Apr 2013)
2.0.15
(16 Sep 2011)

Currently there are two variants of Dovecot:

  • the community edition (CE) released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1
  • Dovecot Pro which powers additional features and extended EOL policies

This page tracks Dovecot CE.

According to the latest lifecycle announcement, the current release cycle receives feature, bug and security patches while the previous cycle only gets critical security bug fixes.

More information is available on the Dovecot website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

dovecot --version

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