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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 - auth: Fatal: Unknown database driver 'pgsql'

I'm trying to configure Dovecot + Postfix + PostfixAdmin with postgresql support. I successfully configured postfix to send emails to aliases for my domain, and now I want to configure actual mailboxes support on my server. I followed the…
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Mail server compromised. Yahoo refusing mails

I think our mail server has been compromised. Today morning when I checked, there were 1298 refused mails from yahoo. with this message Messages from x.x.x.x.x(our ip) temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see…
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Postfix/Dovecot don't use pam_mkhomedir

I have users in external database. So far - ssh, postfix, dovecot and some others - use entries with no problem. I have Maildirs inside /home/[user] and if the homedir exists - everything is ok - sending, receiving. If homedir does not exist…
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Dovecot with virtual users and managesive

I want to use managesieve in my dovecot server which uses virtual users and a ldap for the users. This is in my dovecot.conf: plugin { sieve_dir=/var/mail/sievescript/%u_scripts sieve_extensions = +imapflags } protocol managesieve { …
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Mailserver: Debian, Postfix, Dovecot

I'm trying to set up a Dovecot and Postfix mailserver. My wishes for the server: IMAPS SMTP (secure if is it an option?) Both IMAPS and SMTP must require an user from MySQL, same table. Mails are stored as maildir in…
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permissions error: dovecot log

I'm trying to install exim + dovecot on my centOS server. And when i tried to run( as root ) it, I am getting the below message: Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Can't write to log directory /var/log: Permission denied Fatal: Invalid configuration…
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Filtering Mail Into Folders

I run a mail server using Dovecot and Exim. Currently mail filtering is done on a per user basis using a .forward file in ~/ containing entires along the lines of: if $h_to: CONTAINS "bugtraq" then save "$home/Maildir/.Mailing Lists.BugTraq/" …
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Disable any "pop3-login" on Dovecot

Using Ubuntu Server I have a test-server that sends out mails in PHP scripts. Other than that, it does not do anything with mail. However, I have a bunch of "pop3-login" processes going on. It appears to be somebody/something is trying to login to…
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Mail Server problem sending mails to external domains

Recently I have setup a mail server with Postfix, Dovecot and Squirrelmail on Ubuntu cloud server. The server has static ip address with proper MX record(mail.mydomain.net). When I send mail to Google its going to Spam and I should mark as not spam…
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Change Exim4 www-data user (Ubuntu)

How can I change Exim4's default user for sending mail? I hate the www-data thing. When I try sending mail to certain people I get this error (found in /var/log/exim4/mainlog): 2011-04-24 01:10:54 1QDraw-0001mS-QS <= www-data@mydomain.com U=www-data…
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Dovecot Admin login

Does Dovecot allow me to authenticate as an administrator for all user accounts? Essentially log into any account as an administrator. I'm trying to setup Zimbra and I would like to migrate our IMAP from Dovecot -> Zimbra. In order to do so I would…
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Limiting POP3 mailbox for one connection at a time? (Dovecot)

Is there a way to limit the number of concurrent connections to a POP3 mailbox on a Dovecot server? The current situation is that if two clients connect to the same mailbox, then the server accepts both connections, but only one can run commands on…
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How to configure postfix + dovecot to copy and forward?

I have configured postfix + dovecot as per this guide, originally published at http://neranjara.org/article/title/How_to_configure_PostFix_and_Dovecot_for_Virtual_Users_with_out_a_Database_ now defunct. I used virtual users option. Everything works…
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Is it ok to access Dovecot maildir directly?

I've set up dovecot and use it via IMAP. When I'm logged in onto my server is it fine to use dovecot maildir directly with something like Gnus or NotMuch?
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Trackdown who is sending emails

I have a sendmail + dovecot setup on my server, there are some "strange" emails on email queue. Every email must be sent from a authenticated user and those strange emails don't belong to domains hosted on my server. Due the rules on sendmail they…
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