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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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best practice to have sent mail folder on dovecot imap server

When I add a mail account to KMail (or most other MUA I suppose) the sent mail folder is on the local machine and I don't have my sent mails on other machines. I'd like to have a sent mail folder in IMAP and I thought that there would already exist…
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Can't send or receive email with Postfix (times out)

I'm using Postfix and Dovecot on Debian Wheezy for sending and receiving emails. Dovecot seems to work just fine; I can connect, retrieve, move around, delete, etc., emails that already existed in the account (from past cron jobs). Postfix doesn't…
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Fetching mails into postfix/dovecot via pop3/imap

I managed to set up my first Debian mail server using postfix and dovecot. I use roundcube to access my IMAP accounts which are defined by virtual users in a MySQL data base. Everything works perfectly so far. What I want to do now is fetching mails…
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dovecot login issue with plain passwords

I am having an odd problem in dovecot, the first time I try to login via telnet dovecot gives a error, the second time it works, both within the same telnet session. This is the telnet session, note the 'BAD Error in IMAP command received by server'…
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Dovecot, IMAP outlook reports error 0x800CCC0E cannot synchronize subscribed folders

I have recently some issues with people using my email server. They have problems with synchronizing folders on outlook, and I can't figure out what to do. I found somewhere that I could extend a setting for imap…
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Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy: Unresolved Dependencies

So I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy and Dovecot failed to resolve dependencies: dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dovecot-core dovecot-gssapi …
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Postfix/Dovecot permissions on new files in a mailbox

According to this article: When creating new files inside a mailbox, Dovecot copies the read/write permissions from the mailbox's directory. I'm not seeing this. Here is what I'm seeing: andrewsav@hroon-precis:~$ dovecot…
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HA mail server configuration

I have a mail domain and two servers (machines) with Centos 6.4 and public IP addresses. Postfix mail server and Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server are installed on both. How would I set them up redundantly so that they would be in sync permanently so I could…
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Is it safe to move IMAP message files around when using dovecot?

I'm running postfix + dovecot, and all IMAP messages are in /var/vmail/DOMAIN/USER. I'd like to make a cron script that will look for messages for all users in a folder called 'False Positives,' sa-learn them as ham, and then move them into the…
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How do I use "catchall" in my postfix alias?

I have this in my main.cnf: alias_maps= regexp:/etc/aliases Inside that file, I have: /^reply*$/: jjj Now, when I send it to reply-124233@mydomain.com, postfix bounces it because Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient…
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Changing IMAP port for Dovecot

I'm running Dovecot to let people access their email on my server. Unfortunately, some are on networks where they can't connect on the normal IMAP port, so I'm trying to change it. I changed the config to contain: protocol imap { listen = *.1433…
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postfix, dovecot 2, mailman, dovecot-lda on same domain, config does not work anymore

this configuration used to work but after updating to Dovecot 2 (Ubuntu 12.04) mails to mailman get not delivered anymore: Instead of delivering to mailman, I get a bounce for non-existing user mailinglist@my.host.tld postconf -n: alias_database =…
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PostFix and Dovecot - fatal: no SASL authentication

After following the guide provided by debuntu.org (http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-virtual-emails-accounts-with-postfix-and-dovecot/) which was very helpful, I immediately began having issues with SASL autentication. What provoked me to look in the…
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Postfix to deliver mail to a virtual address mailbox

Postfix version 2.6.6, Dovecot Version 2.0.9 I want to setup Postfix + Dovecot. Dovecot seems to be working. I can authenticate. However, the mailbox is empty! Nothing will get delivered! I followed many tutorials on Postfix + Dovecot but they seem…
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Dovecot throws obsolete warnings, even though dovecot.conf updated on Ubuntu 11

In trying to set up SASL for dovecot on Ubuntu 11, I keep getting obsolete warnings in my log: Sep 10 15:33:53 server1 dovecot: config: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:24: passdb {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=…
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