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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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Should Postfix run chrooted if it already is in it a FreeBSD jail?

I'm running Postfix together with Dovecot and a few milters in a FreeBSD jail. Is there a significant security gain when I run SMTP and SMTPD daemons chrooted as well?
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Having troubles receiving emails from Gmail

I'm having problem with receiving emails from Gmail. The problem is gmail only. I can send mails to gmail and receive it perfectly in gmail. I also being able to receive mails from yahoo and other custom domain. On the gmail side, it says the…
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I need help trying to authenticate with AD from my linux machine

I am not experienced in this, so there might be some points that I am missing. Initially I tried to setup Cyrus Mail w/ SASL for AD authentication. After several tries, it failed to work. I switched to Dovecot and authentication failed in Dovecot,…
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Dovecot/postfix: forward all current messages

What I'm try to achieve it's pretty simple, and, after googling, its hard to believe I've been unable to find a solution. What I want is to forward all current messages (already delivered) of an user (michael@mydomain.com) to another external and…
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Authenticating SMTP Proxy

I have acquired a number of mail users, and I'm wanting to transition them away from their current mail server and onto mine. I've set up perdition as a proxy which will allow me to proxy IMAP and POP connections - and I have control of the DNS…
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Postfix, dovecot, squirrelmail Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX

I'm trying to create my first mail server with postfix, Dovecot and squirrel mail on Ubuntu 14.04 To get started did i follow this tutorial on this page. http://www.tecmint.com/setup-postfix-mail-server-in-ubuntu-debian/ I created a user on my…
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Gmail bouncing postfix mail

I followed this tutorial to get email working on my VPS. I've been having problems sending email to Gmail. I can receive emails fine, but any mail that is sent to Gmail is bounced with the following message: Our system has detected that this…
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How do I move a Maildir to a subdirectory of another user?

When an employee has left the company I want to move their entire Maildir to be a folder in an "old employees" account. Given that Maildir uses the filesystem exclusively, I feel it should be possible to just mv ~fred/Maildir…
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IDN domain names on IMAP / POP3

I'm setting up a mailserver solution (Postfix, Dovecot) and I'm wondering about IDN (Internationalized domain name) on the IMAP / POP3 side. Should I use the ASCII-encoded (PUNY / ACE) format for Dovecot user logins or should users rather login with…
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Who is telling where cur,new and tmp are created using Postfixadmin with Maildir

I was trying to realized which configuration is telling where cur,tmp and new are created. Of course I've beein using virtual user and I receive and send mails into virtualuser/domain/user/Maildir/new and virtualuser/Maildir/cur (I think…
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dovecot userdb passwd-file default_fields uid not expanding %variable

I'm trying to set up a very simple shared mail server, where each 'domain' is a system user, i.e. 'example.com' is a real user with /home/example.com/, a uid of 5001 and gid 'example.com' of 5001. Each domain\user has their own maildir inside their…
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Dovecot / Postfix / SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/auth-client failed: Permission denied

Dovecot / Postfix configuration is not working properly on my server : after several checks, I understand that Imap services are operationnal using local or desktop clients Postfix is listening, and new emails are sotred in postfix queue Transfer…
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Dovecot: Email clients and duplicated folders

So in my server I'm usually going against a problem, different emails clients call some special folders like Sent and Trash different names like Sent Items and Deleted Items. My question is, can I in some way "alias" all those names and internally…
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How to synchronize downloaded emails from clients back to the IMAP server

I have an iRedMail server running (postfix + dovecot as an IMAP server) on a Debian Xen guest machine. By a mistake the iscsi disk, where users emails are stored, was deleted. There is another copy of this disk from December 30th 2014. There is a…
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Postfix/Dovecot: SASL LOGIN authentication aborted

I use Postfix together with Dovecot (auth/LMTP) on my mailserver. Everything is working fine, but I notice several warnings in the log-files each day: postfix/smtpd[4169]: warning: unknown[MY.HOME.IP]: SASL LOGIN authentication aborted dovecot:…
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