Part 2: Install Dovecot IMAP Server on CentOS/RHEL and Enable TLS Encryption

This is part 2 of building your own email server from scratch on CentOS/RHEL tutorial series. In part 1, we showed you how to set up a basic Postfix SMTP server. In this tutorial, we are going to configure our email server so that we can receive and send emails using a desktop email client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook.

To be able to send emails using a desktop email client, we need to enable the submission service in Postfix. To receive emails using a desktop email client, we can install an open-source IMAP server named Dovecot on CentOS/RHEL server. And to encrypt our communications, we need a TLS certificate.

Read full tutorial:https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/install-dovecot-centos-enable-tls-encryption