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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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dovecot won't reload config?

I want to run imaps on a port other than 993. I changed this in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf and beforehand, backed up the original copy as /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.bak. I did everything from # service dovecot restart # service…
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How to build a chained cert for Dovecot?

I have a Dovecot default certificate "dovecot.pem" which is for localhost. My email client uses "domain1" and "domain2" as email hosts. Herefore I have two more self-signed certificates "domain1.crt" and "domain2.crt". Now, how do I create a…
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Dovecot userdb failed: Internal failure

I'm attempting to secure Dovecot by adding the 'allow_nets' option in the MySQL password query. When I do so, I can check mail just fine. However, any mail that is sent to the mailbox fails with: Apr 1 09:38:59 localhost dovecot:…
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Authentication error connecting to a mail server via openssl in the terminal

I've set up an email server using Postfix and Dovecot and I'm able to send and receive mail using various mail clients but for some reason I get an authentication error when I try to connect via openssl in the terminal. This is pretty much how it…
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Postfix on server with multiple IP addresses sends mails with wrong HELO in header

I have a VPS with multiple IP addresses: venet0:0 x.x.x.2 venet0:1 x.x.x.3 venet0:2 x.x.x.4 venet0:3 x.x.x.5 All IPs have A records m2.domain.com -> x.x.x.2 m3.domain.com -> x.x.x.3 m4.domain.com -> x.x.x.4 m5.domain.com -> x.x.x.5 and rDNS…
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Dovecot antispam plugin does not get triggered

I've got an issue with the antispam plugin using dovecot 2.1.7 and dspam 3.10.1. I think, the antispam plugin does not recognize the Junk-Folder because the log reports Mar 25 13:11:22 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(Junk): 0 and after finding…
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How to move cur tmp new directories directly in virtual user home?

Reading the Maildir documentation they just mention folder should be like user/Maildir/cur tmp new So my virtual users have it without Maildir folder like: user/cur /tmp /new is this going to cause…
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searching for the correct way to compile postfix

I am experiencing issues while compiling latest version of postfix from source code. At the moment I'm trying to compile version 3 because Debian 7 and latest Ubuntu 14,10 (version 2,9 and 2,11 for postfix) are buggy for configuring virtual…
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SquirrelMail showing empty inbox. THIS FOLDER IS EMPTY

I have installed postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail. I can send messages and also receive messages. But in Squirrelmail web interface i can see only sent messages it is not showing the mails which are in inbox . Infact when I click on Inbox it…
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Dovecot and virtual domains with different namespaces

I've got dovecot 2.1.7 setup with virtual domains and now would like to have different public namespaces for each of the virtual domains. E.g. workdomain.com -> INBOX (private namespace) -> projects (public namespace) -> customers (public…
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Dovecot: using a separate passdb per service

Situation: one front-facing server running Dovecot as IMAP/POP3/ManageSieve proxy, a mixture of IMAP servers (Dovecot, Exchange, ...) in the back-end. Dovecot's passdb does lookups against MySQL which contains a simple user/host mapping, the actual…
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SASL PLAIN authenticating with primary domain, but not with virtual domain

Postfix + dovecot and sasl. Works so far with 1 domain. Added a virtual domain. Incoming mail for this works. Outgoing however has SASL authentication failing. Why does it fail I don't know. /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf looks like: pwcheck_method:…
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Authentication with Dovecot, SHA512, and salts

I have a database that has a username, password, and password salt in it. The password is hashed using SHA512. The data in my users database looks like this: user = testuser password_hash =…
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Can't receive emails to my mail server

I created a mail server, following this tutorial: https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mysql , I configured the email on my email client, SMTP and IMAP and both connections are working, I can send email from my…
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postfix/dovecot - run script when mail is received

I need to implement solution on my postfix/dovecot server which will execute bash script every time message arrives. For this purpose I did following things in master.cf configuration myhook unix - n n - - pipe …
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