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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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How to get a list of Dovecot IMAP users

How do you get a list of users for a dovecot email server that connect via IMAP (as opposed to POP)? Our server is setup to authenticate via LDAP/PAM. Is there an easy way to get a list of the users who are accessing their mail via IMAP, rather than…
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Dovecot/Postfix with SSL on EC2

I've been running through a tutorial at: http://www.cerebellumstrategies.com/amazon-linux-postfix-dovecot/ and everything works through the entire tutorial right up to checking the authentication. While inside the instance, I can…
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Randomly getting Postfix SSL_accept error / Dovecot TLS handshaking Disconnected

I have this really weird problem since a couple of days/weeks: more and more people are reporting problems connecting to the mail servers (Dovecot IMAP and POP3 as well as Postfix SMTP) in SSL mode. They are running on two separate Debian 6.ß…
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postfix+dovecot multiple domains config

I'd like to setup 2 distinct mail services (that look completely separated for end-user) on one machine with 2 IP addresses and 2 domain names. I've started with my current config which is a postfix+dovecot with virtual domains/users using MySQL (it…
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In Postfix, how do I measure how much traffic is used by each user or domain?

In Postfix, how do I measure how much traffic is used by each user or domain? I can see no "out of the box" means of doing this with vanilla postfix, however, I am sure this is a pretty common need. So how do you solve it? Bonus info would be to…
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Postfix with Dovecot configured and send emails with no errors. When sending from a remote client message-id is empty, and emails go to spam.

I have Postfix and Dovecot installed and running on the VPS. Using telnet once from VPS, and once from a client machine, I'm composing exactly the same messages. Everything is working but when sending from the client, the email goes to Gmail's…
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~/Maildir vs /var/mail for e-mail storage

I run a mail server with Exim4 and Dovecot. Currently mail goes to ~/Maildir. However, I am wondering what the relative advantages and disadvantages of storing mail in /var/mail/$user/ is. Is one location more secure (from a process privileges…
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Postfix and Dovecot - setting up TLS encryption for IMAP

I am able to connect to my Dovecot server and read emails. However I am currently doing it using the "PLAIN" password connection. How can I setup postfix and dovecot to use TLS? From what I recall you have to pay for a SSL certificate, is TLS…
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Emptying Trash with Dovecot IMAP

On a Debian Squeeze system I run an IMAP server using Dovecot with messages being stored in the Maildir format. The server is accessed by various clients, including Thunderbird, Evolution and RoundCube. When a user deletes a message it is moved to…
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Postfix: How to configure Postfix with virtual Dovecot mailboxes?

I have configured a Postfix mail server for two domains: domain1.com and domain2.com. In my configuration domain1 has both virtual users with Maildirs and aliases to forward mail to local users (eg. root, webmaster) and some small mailing lists. It…
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Using ecryptfs encrypted home directories with Dovecot

I have setup home directory encryption on Ubuntu 10.04 machine, but ecryptfs does not seem to be able to work with Dovecot (or CourierIMAP, etc). After successful IMAP login, home directory is never mounted, and Dovecot obviously can not find mail…
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Postfix: Virtual Mailbox Mapping and Dovecot

on my server, I would like Postfix to be MTA, to accept mails and to apply a virtual-mailbox-mapping like this (of course with my domain instead of example.org): in /etc/postfix/main.cf: virtual_mailbox_maps =…
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Can't make Dovecot communicate with Postfix using SASL (warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory)

Solved. I will leave this as a reference to other people, as I have seen this error reported often enough on line. I had to change the path smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth in my /etc/postfix/main.cf to relative, instead of absolute. This is…
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How define sieve_global_dir in dovecot's sieve-test

I created a few sieve (dovecot implementation) filter scripts and want to test them using sieve-test. All scripts which are using global includes are failing with the following message Error: sieve: include: sieve_global_dir not set for :global…
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Postfix sasl: Relay access Denied (state 14)

I have postfix installed with dovecot. There are no problems when I'm trying to send e-mails from my server, however all e-mails that are coming in are rejected. My main.cf file: queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory =…
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