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An IMAP and POP3 email server. When asking about Dovecot problems, please include relevant maillog lines and output of the following command: `doveconf -n`

Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for *nix systems. It emphasizes security, and is also easy to set up and use, as well as having high performance.

More information about dovecot is available at http://www.dovecot.org/

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install package from debian backports pool

I want to upgrade my dovecote installation to version 2. I discovered the package here. I also already added deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main to my sources.list. But the desired package inside the pool…
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Dovecot corrupted transaction log file is delaying email

We're running dovecot as an IMAP server and postfix to deliver mail. One of our users is complaining that email is gettin delayed (no we're not using grey listing or anything like that). /var/log/mail.info is showing these log messages around when…
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Postfix/Dovecot support multiple domains

I have a server running Postfix/Dovecot with a MySQL back-end which is configured to use the domain name 'olddomain.com'. I am migrating everything to use another domain 'newdomain.com' and Postfix/Dovecot/Postfixadmin all need to be migrated too.…
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Dovecot, POP3 and Gmail

I setup Postfix and Dovecot on a new Ubuntu box following these directions. From a client machine, I validate that POP3 seems to be working telnet mydomain.com 110 +OK Dovecot ready. USER me@mydomain.com +OK PASS mypassword +OK Logged in. quit +OK…
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Dovecot with Postfix on Ubuntu: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: No such file or directory

I can't seem to get dovecot to start. My log keeps showing this stuff: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Mar 1 17:15:01 mac postfix/smtpd[32526]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: No such file or directory Mar 1 17:15:01 mac…
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Detecting unreaded mails in Maildir

I like to detect unreaded mails in Maildir mailboxes. The subfolder "new" only content mails that are not already pulled from an MUA. But I want the unreaded mails within INBOX (no virtual subdirs). Any suggestions how this can be implemented? PS: I…
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glusterfs and dovecot problems

Ive got two servers with a shared glusterfs disk, both running dovecot and serving mail from this shared disk. Users read mail only from one of these servers but mail gets delivered to both. Occasionally I get problems when accessing the inbox…
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Logging into IMAP (Dovecot) server

I am attempting to login to my IMAP Dovecot server on my Amazon EC2 instance. I am attempting to login as root and I recieve this error in the mail log: dovecot: imap: Error: user root: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid What…
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How to determine if my mail server is configured correctly?

Does anyone know of an online service (similar to the ones that tell you if a site is up or down) that can connect to a specified mail server and perform checks to see if it is configured correctly? If not, does anyone know exactly what these…
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Compress old emails with dovecot

How can I configure dovecot to compress/archive old emails (say 6 months old) with the users still being able to read them, to save some precious space on the server?
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What are the correct dovecot file permissions for /etc/dovecot on Ubuntu 18.04?

I can't log in to my newly self-hosted webmail and I'm getting the following entries in /var/log/mail.log Feb 10 02:00:31 ip-172-26-15-53 dovecot: lmtp(myemailuser@example.co.uk): Error:…
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Dovecot can't login Virtual user

Hello im running Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux Im totally new to setting up mailservers. I havesetup a postfix for SMTP and it can receive emails. Postfix version is mail_version =…
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Dovecot auth-sql driver not respecting sql username options, how do I get around this?

Dovecot is running in a jail and set up properly for SQL connections. dovecot-sql-conf.ext has the appropriate options, the main one that's problematic is connect. connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mailuser password=password sql user…
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Warning `undefined parameter: mua_sender_restrictions` when `postconf -n`

My system is centos 7. I am setting up mail server with postfix,dovecot,mariadb based on this post. There's a problem in my mail server, can send mail but cannot receive mail. Then I postconf -n,the result as below: [root@server6328 log]#…
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Dovecot imap-login: confusing error? message

I am busy setting up a mailserver with postfix, dovecot and mariadb on a Debian 9 system. Receiving mail fails on port 993 as result of a time-out with this message in/var/log/dovecot.log: imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 117…
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