Questions tagged [dovecot]

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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Mail Server setup under Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard (10.6)

I'm currently setting up a number of new Xserve boxes running Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard. One of these machines will be replacing our current (ageing) Linux mail server. The Linux box is running an (older) version of Dovecot, and of course under…
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Sieve rules to match raw header values

This worked in procmail, but it seems procmail was abandoned in Sept 2001. I had a rule that would sense when utf-8 was used in the 'To:' header to write my name using emoji or non-Latin characters. When I try the same in Dovecot's Sieve…
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Dovecot trying to authenticate external users

I am using dovecot version 2.3.4.1 with SQL authentication and it works perfectly fine. I see in the logs though that when I use a PHP script to email a list of users, that dovecot is trying to authenticate the recipients? I might be wrong in…
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suspicious postfix warnings

I am running a private mailserver for quite some time now, which is a postfix / dovecot setup. I noticed some log messages from postfix, which alerted me a little bit, and I hope, someone can explain those messages to me. Feb 15 08:09:28 myhostname…
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Dovecot IMAP Server with Horde Groupware ActiveSync - IMAP Server not reporting changed state

I have a Horde Groupware with a Dovecot IMAP Server on Debian Linux running. Using the Web UI of Horde works well, but I have a problem using ActiveSync. When using a client app like BlueMail on Android, I do not see the most recent e-mail messages…
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How to get Dovecot quota status to message correctly?

I have a testing VM running Ubuntu with postfix, dovecot and a couple of users set up using Roundcube to send mail locally via SMTP. If I set the Dovecot quota of User A to 20K and then send about 18K of mail to them from User B, this puts them at…
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Dovecot claims ports are in use, netstat disagrees

Attempting to start dovecot gives me this: Apr 28 13:37:00 master: Error: service(pop3-login): listen(*, 110) failed: Address already in use Apr 28 13:37:00 master: Error: service(pop3-login): listen(*, 995) failed: Address already in use Apr 28…
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How do I tell Dovecot to use another server for SMTP?

I am a bit lost on mail servers, but I have to install a mail proxy (Proxmox Mail Gateway) in front of the actual mail server (ISPConfig, Roundcube, Dovecot, Postfix). On receiving emails, it uses the mail proxy which then sends the emails to the…
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permission denied error for letsencrypt certificates

This error is from dovecot where it can't read the certificate because of permissions I tried changing permissions around, presently I have everything on 644 I understand the paths are only links to /etc/letsencrypt/archives file paths so I really…
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iRedMail: Domain alias not working with some external mails (diacritics/punycode)

After successfully setting up an iRedMail server for my main domain, I tried to add my secondary domain as an alias by following the steps on here: https://docs.iredmail.org/sql.add.alias.domain.html This didn't do the trick just yet, so I…
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Postfix relay user if not found on local mail server

I have a particular need which seemed to be realizable with Postfix. I have 2 mail servers at my disposal. the first in a local linux server which is managed by Postfix with Dovecot the second managed by gmail (pro) for some users (is not a…
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I'm looking for a way to configure distance clustering of postfix and dovecot

I currently have a postfix server and dovecot server sharing files from an NFS server in the UK and the same config in Switzerland. I tried to mailsync but that appeared to lose emails, so then I tried doveadm replication but keeps coredumping and…
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Debian - Postfix rejecting user (User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command))

I recently have been moving from Centos to Debian. A few weeks ago I setup up a server with Postfix / Dovecot and it went fine. I'm doing the same again today but keep getting bounces with the error: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local…
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fsDriver type for http api doveadm

i'm searching to use doveadm http api in order to get object from a path so i'm using this curl : curl --location --request POST 'http://10.150.12.11:8080/doveadm/v1' \ --header 'Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' \ --header…
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dovecot + memcached, how to?

Does anyone know how to utilize memcached with dovecot (in order to reduce number of MySQL queries)? There is only very basic documentation regarding dovecot's Dictionary: memcached:param=value:param2=value2:... Supported parameters are: host:…
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