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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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User-trainable spam filtering with Exim and Dovecot

Currently I'm using Exim to deliver mails via dovecot-lda into Dovecot mailboxes. I'd like to add spam filtering, but I don't want to reject false-positives in Exim, and I want to train the bayesian filter from the client. So: How do I configure a…
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Postfix & Dovecot - can't receive email - status=bounced (unknown user: "some.name")

I have Postfix and Dovecot running. Postfix is set up to use Dovecot as mail transport. Everything is pretty much by book but every received email is bounced back. I am testing the mail server from gmail. There are some strange queries for each…
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How can I make exim deliver a single incoming mail to multiple local maildirs?

I'm maintaining an IMAP server running FreeBSD which uses exim 4.80 as its MTA. Right now I try to create an email alias so that I can address all users of the system for informing them about scheduled downtimes and the like. The idea is that a mail…
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Postfix TLS issue

I'm trying to enable TLS on Postfix but the daemon is crashing: Sep 16 16:00:38 core postfix/master[1689]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1694 killed by signal 11 Sep 16 16:00:38 core postfix/master[1689]: warning:…
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2 factor authentication for Dovecot/Postfix / SSH / PAM

I'm wondering if there is some kine of 2 factor authentication module which supports PAM. My dovecot(PAM), postfix(SASL) and openssh authenticate via PAM to the system users. I would like to have it do 2 factor authentication, maybe via yubikey,…
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What is wrong in my Postfix Dovecot sasl configuration?

I configured postfix and dovecot as specified in http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot_comm description to activate sasl authentication. Unfortunately postfix rejects every connections with the following error showing in the…
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Postfix rejects SASL auth when dovecot is down

We're using Postfix with Dovecot and SASL Auth via Dovecot (based on this tutorial). All works like expected. But when Dovecot is down (i.e. for maintenance or other reasons) then clients could not authenticate at Postfix and Postfix rejects client…
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On OS X Server, only admin users can access email

In OS X Lion Server, when I create admin users via the workgroup manager, they are allowed to log in remotely via ssh and they get email served by dovecot. However, if I remove the option "user can administrate this server" in workgroup manager,…
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Dovecot Virtual Users Not Authenticating

We have a standard Postfix/Dovecot installation working perfectly with real users but cannot work out how to add virtual users, all virtual user login attempts fail with authentication errors. Following are snippets from the configuration…
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Dovecot Virtual Users and Users Domain Mapping

I have successfully compiled, configured and ran Dovecot with virtual users feature. Here's part of my /etc/dovecot.conf configuration file: mail_location = maildir:/home/%d/%n/Maildir auth default { mechanisms = plain login userdb…
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mailboxes not showing up after migration

I'm migrating mail server over to a new machine running dovecot. Everything is running fine but I'm not able to see folders that users created on the old server. Messages that were in the inbox are visible however. In my dovecot.conf, I…
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can't view email in INBOX throught squirrelmail, only in /var/mail/user

I have installed postfix+dovecot+squirrelmail+sasl in Debian Squeeze. I can send email through squirrelmail, but can't receive mails there. I can view received mails only through cat /var/mail/user. Also it created /var/mail/u/user dirs where ls…
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Dovecot TLS Handshake not working

I have set up my mailserver using http://workaround.org/ispmail and it worked until today, where I can not access the server using IMAP. The error I see in dovecot.log is 2012-02-09 16:37:40 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts):…
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Does Cyrus SASL support userdb authentication?

I'm not finding anything that indicates it doesn't; I need to be able to authenticate virtual users. If not do I need to start using dovecot?
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How to start dovecot?

I'm building a web server to host multiple websites. I got everything working except the mail server. I'm using linode to host my vps and I've been following their tutorials. FYI, I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Here is the link I've been following,…
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