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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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Getting error TLS not available when connect via StartTLS

I am trying to configure TLS on my mail server (postfix+dovecot on debian). But whenever I try to send via StartTLS, I've got this error message telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220…
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Maildir "new" has messages but Inbox is empty

I'm installing a new mail server (Postfix/Dovecot+Maildir) in a fresh OS. Using Thunderbird (or Squirrelmail) I can send mails but my inbox is empty even when I can see them in /home//Maildir/new. What could be the problem? I'll attach any…
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Dovecot 2.0.7 postlogin script not getting plain_pass

We are currently setting up a postlogin script to pass credentials to a script for syncing mail to another server cluster in preparation for a migration. The server we are setting this up currently is running Dovecot 2.0.7 and is using the passwd…
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Using non-standard mailbox backend - is this even possible?

What I'm trying to do: provide an IMAP server as a facade for standardized e-mail access, without using on-disk mailboxes. What I have: multiple TB of e-mails, stored in MySQL in a completely non-standard format a webservice providing access to…
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postfix RCPT TO Temporary lookup failure 451 && mail transport unavailable

i configure Postfix and dovecot in fedora 20 my problem is when set RCPT TO return me 451 4.3.0 : Temporary lookup failure my postfix Configuration main.cf # postfix config file # uncomment for debugging if…
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dovecot error Unknown setting: unix_listener

I'm trying to enable postfix auth. I'm editing the this section from /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 user = postfix group = postfix } But after I restart…
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CentOS 6.5 Webmail Server: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory

I'm trying to run a webmail server on CentOS with Postfix, Docecot and Roundcube. Whenever I try to send mail or send a test email to my server it fails. I can login so looks like Dovecot is okay. Here is my server log: Jul 2 14:01:42 phantastyc…
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Postfix sends email to spam (gmail, hotmail)

I recently installed a postfix + dovecot + dkim multi domain, multi user, multi alias mail server on my debian squeeze system. Everything works except for one big issue that basically makes the whole thing useless: Every single email sent by my…
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Dovecot : remove unused inboxes

Using Dovecot, I ran into quite a disturbing problem when it comes to inboxes purge. Here's my setup : Dovecot stores its users/mailboxes on a MySQL backend. Postfix handles email transmissions, and relies on Dovecot for authentication. Inboxes are…
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How to configure postfix/dovecot setup to reject certain mail

I followed this (https://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze/big-picture) tutorial to set up my mailserver and it works very well. I'd like to be able to reject email from certain users or if it contains certain strings or if the title matches…
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Fail2Ban not blocking brute force attack on dovecot

I run a CentOS 5 server with fail2ban and I am currently getting hit with a bruteforce attack on my dovecot service. I know fail2ban is working, because it is blocking attacks on my FTP server and Postfix. For some reason I am missing something with…
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Deliver mail to virtual users with sendmail and dovecot lda

I'm trying to migrate our linux system user based post system to virtual users. I have sendmail with procmail delivery dovecot system users with different uids roundcube web interface Sendmail handles all mail delivery to user mailboxes, dovecot…
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Wheezy processes die periodically

I have a very weird problem. Certain processes on my mail server, but not all, die periodically (every second month or so). A few of the process that die are: ssh dovecot postfix Processes that don't die are: apache2 My system is running (Debian…
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NFS on Btrfs on multi-devices .vs. Glusterfs on distributed-volume?

I considering a storage for Email. This storage system run on my own private cloud (already replicated), then i does not care about replication. I'm thinking about 2 options: 1- I will create few "disk" (volume on cloud), and create a Btrfs…
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Dovecot Not Attempting to Authenticate Clients

We have just migrated our email to a new server but the new system is not recognising client log in attempts, in the mail log the message 'Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>' is displayed. This problem is almost undoubtedly because…
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