ABOUT

Dovecot Pro

Dovecot Pro is the commercial, carrier-grade version of Dovecot, the world’s
most widely used mail server. It’s part of Open-Xchange

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Our Vision

Our vision is to support the continued openness of Internet email, ensuring that full-featured, open standards compliant alternatives continue to exist. We safeguard the ecosystem from monopolisation by a handful of closed providers.

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Our Story

Dovecot was created in 2002 by Timo Sirainen, a Finnish software engineer, with
the goal of building a secure, high-performance, and standards-compliant IMAP
and POP3 server for Linux and UNIX systems.

Over the years, Dovecot evolved from a personal project into the world’s most
widely used mail server, powering over three-quarters of all mail servers globally.

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Dovecot was created in 2002 by Timo Sirainen, a Finnish software engineer, with the goal of building a secure, high-performance, and standards-compliant IMAP and POP3 server for Linux and UNIX systems.
2003 - 2010
Over the years, Dovecot evolved from a personal project into the world’s most widely used mail server, powering over three-quarters of all mail servers globally.
2011
The first commercial Dovecot product was released.
2013
From its early days, Dovecot gained a reputation for its robust security model and efficient architecture. Building on that foundation, we introduced obox — the Dovecot Pro mailbox storage optimized for object storage.
2014
We released Dovecot Pro Full Text Search (FTS), further enhancing performance and scalability for large deployments.
2015
Dovecot was acquired by Open-Xchange, a German software company that develops email and collaboration solutions for open, secure and accessible internet.
2024
Dovecot Pro received a major upgrade with the introduction of the cloud-native Palomar architecture, available exclusively to Pro customers.
Today
Dovecot continues to combine open standards with enterprise-grade performance and support, powering email infrastructure for organizations around the world.

Team

The Dovecot Pro team

Dovecot Pro, like the rest of Open-Xchange, operates in a non-hierarchical, cell-based
structure that enables fast decision-making and fosters accountability and innovation.

Key people of Dovecot Pro

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Aki Tuomi

Senior Dovecot Engineer

Michael

Michael Slusarz

Dovecot Product Manager

Timo

Timo Sirainen

Chief Architect Dovecot

Teemu

Teemu Huovila

Dovecot Technical Product Manager

Lasse

Lasse Savolainen

Senior Dovecot Engineer

Our Reach

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220+ million

Mailboxes worldwide are powered by Dovecot Pro
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>75%

of all IMAP servers globally run Dovecot
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We power some of the world’s
largest email deployments

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