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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 listens on different interfaces for different services

I'm just setting up Dovecot 2 and I wanted to have it listen on port 993 for imaps on all interfaces and listen on port 143 for normal imap only on the loopback interface. That way I'd have less publicly open ports and can still use a non-tls…
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ssl issue with dovecot

I have an, apparently frequently occurring but unsolved, issue with gmail when retrieving mail from external pop mail boxes via gmail. Looking at the error details it says: server responded: 'authentication failed'. This mail server is my own server…
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Postfix/Dovecot relay access denied

I have a mail server (Postfix/Dovecot) set up with the following configuration: email goes to a local mailbox for each virtual user, and is also forwarded to a Google Apps address (e.g. user@domain.org.test-google-a.com). This all works correctly…
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Ubuntu server postfix + dovecot authentication, wrong password

I am trying to setup basic e-mail server just for me on my Ubuntu 12.04 following these guides. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot I executed everything as it says in the tutorial. When I test with…
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How to enable maildir in Dovecot deliver with Sendmail local_procmail

There is documentation around on how to make /usr/local/bin/procmail work with delivering to a maildir. However, it is my understanding that it is also possible to avoid procmail altogether, and have sendmail's local_procmail FEATURE call…
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Centos 6 Mail Server / Can't receive e-mails but can send

I recently set up my server using Centos 6, with ISPconfig 3 with httpd, php, mysql, mail server. I can create e-mail accounts in the control panel, And I successfully can log in to the webmail, I tried to send a message to my other e-mail on a…
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Postfix + Dovecot SASL - Need catch all with virtual users

I have a Postfix instance using SASL with Dovecot for authentication. I am using virtual_alias_maps for some address rewriting, but I'm unable to use a catch all definition (@domain newaddress) as Postfix matches that before doing any sort of…
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Thunderbird disconnecting from Dovecot

I'm managing a Dovecot POP3 server which serves large number of users. Some of these users are in remote locations. I'm getting reports about users whose Thunderbird clients show the number of mails to be downloaded, but disconnects after…
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Postfix "AUTH-LOGIN" no longer being offered for smtp auth after upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04.1

After doing a major Ubuntu dist upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04, my virtual-user postfix / dovecot installation only offers "PLAIN" SMTP Authentication mechanism. It used to offer PLAIN + LOGIN mechanisms, and I have tried everything under the sun to…
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Issues setting up mail server: relay access denied and mail loops back to myself

I have a Debian server with postfix configured with sasl and tls, and dovecot as a mail server. I'm having two separate problems sending mail to my account on the server. First, when I send mail from my gmail account, I get Jan 4 23:35:50 avalon…
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Dovecot. Why do we need a public namespace?

I'm really confused about namespaces. Here's the Dovecot tutorial I'm trying to follow: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix Can someone explain to me what exactly is being accomplished by publish namespace there? Does…
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Relay Access Denied (State 13) Postfix + Dovecot + Mysql

So we have been scratching our heads for quite some time over this relay issue that has presented itself since we re-built our mail-server after a failed Webmin update. We are running Debian Karmic with postfix 2.6.5 and Dovecot 1.1.11, sourcing…
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Dovecot IMAP + Roundcube Subscriptions Missing

I have a Dovecot server v2.0 (from Ubuntu 12.04) and Roundcube running on the same server. The setup generally works well, except that certain IMAP subscriptions disappear after a random time (between 10 mins - 2 hours). Only certain subscriptions…
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dovecot & imap folders

I've got a question about Trash/Drafts/Sent folders. By default when I created mailboxes via ISPManager panel, it wast Inbox.Sent, Inbox.Trash, Inbox.Drafts. which I didn't like because having sent and drafts as subfolder to inbox was kinda lame…
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Fixing Poor Email

I'm having an issue with SenderBase. My IPs are not blocked in any BLs but people who use SenderBase/Ciscos stuff do not get my emails. Is this because my email system is setup poorly? They list the following: Your email server or a computer in…
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