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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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What is the purpose of the < (less than symbol) before path in dovecot settings

In the default dovecot ssl config file the certificate file paths are specified like: ssl_cert =
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Postfix + Dovecot: Create send-only email account

I've got a nice little mail server setup (running Ubuntu Server 16.04) that works a treat. It uses postfix as SMTP, which uses dovecot (IMAP) as an authentication source for virtual mailbox users. It's been working fine, but now I have a second…
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Dovecot: missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail)

I can't figure out what I am missing. I'm setting up a new mail server and had this erorre every time I receive an email. The user is inside the group mail mail:x:8:dovecot,user.name The perms directory are here /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 3 root mail …
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postfix/dovecot says "postmaster_address setting not given" but it is

I'm trying to configure postfix and dovecot to work together with virtual domains stored in MySQL, but I keep running into this whenever mail is passed from postfix to dovecot. Apr 26 11:54:40 smtp postfix/pipe[13165]: 20CCE1C30D5:…
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Postfix + mysql: virtual_users combined with a catch-all in virtual_aliases

I have a Postfix (and Dovecot) server running, using MySQL to define the domain names, users and aliases. This is all running fine, but now I want to add a catch-all to a domain where I already have some users defined for. I added the user in the…
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Postfix with Dovecot: local and virtual users

I just finished setting up a Postfix SMTP and Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server. It works perfectly fine for virtual users both sending and receiving, but I need to do the following: Besides virtual users being able to retrieve mail, I want to be able to…
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Rename Junk folder in dovecot IMAP server

Being English, I find the terms "Trash" and "Junk" confusing because they mean essentially the same thing. I want to rename these folders on my Dovecot IMAP server to "Deleted" and "Spam" respectively because those terms mean more to me. So I…
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dovecot-lmtp: No such file or directory)

I have a problem w/ dovecot [private/dovecot-lmtp]: No such file or directory) Idea?
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Dovecot (with Postfix) configuration has connection refused when accessing auth-userdb

...this was a hard one to describe in a title. This description should highlight the problem. Context I was following the Workaround.org tutorial to install a postfix, dovecot (plus some additional plugins) stack. Running on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine…
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dovecot-lmtp does not exist

I followed this guide on linode to setup dovecot and postfix mail server on my Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS . The setup requires socket /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp to act as virtual transport. However, in my setup, this socket file doesn't exist…
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How to configure postfix and dovecot so that thunderbird can automatically find settings

Our mailserver is a Ubuntu Server box with a Postfix/Dovecot combination. We enabled starttls with a correct certificate and everything is working ok. A lot of our users are using Thunderbird for retrieving mail with IMAP. Thunderbird tries to guess…
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Is there a way to pause mail delivery in Postfix (accumulate in queue)?

When using combination of Postfix/Dovecot, is there a way to tell smtp server (Postfix) not to store mails on disk but hold/add them to queue until "maintenance finished"? Useful for disk upgrades, volume extensions, chkdisk etc.
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Dovecot starting and running, but not listening on any port

I'm in charge of a Debian GNU/Linux (Wheezy) DomU for the mail services of the company I work for. Yesterday one hard drive that was used for this particular server died. After installing Debian again, Dovecot decided to no longer listen on any…
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Dovecot ignoring maximum number of IMAP connections

I have a single mailbox mail server running Dovecot/Postfix and I have two IMAP clients, Thunderbird on the PC and K9 on Android. I keep on receiving this error in my logs even after I change the 'mail_max_userip_connections' variable to 50. puppet…
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Unable to receive any emails using postfix, dovecot, mysql, and virtual domain/mailboxes

I have been working on configuring my mail server for the last couple of weeks using postfix, dovecot, and mysql. I have one virtual domain and a few virtual mailboxes. Using squirrelmail I have been able to log into my accounts and send emails…
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