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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 Migration and old mails

I'm migrating my mails from an old server to a new one, the configuration is good (mysql virtual accounts & imap only), with dovecot and postfix. It's already running for other users, I just want to merge old accounts from the old server to the new…
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Dovecot 2 /auth-userdb permissions

Error in log file: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner) Section of 10-master.conf: service auth…
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How do I setup a secondary incoming mail server?

I currently have a server running Debian 6, with postfix and dovecot handling email. This server hosts email for a number of domains and users, so I use MySQL as my backing store for users and forwardings and everything related. Currently, this…
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Forcing Dovecot to use SSL

I set up a mail server on an Ubuntu 11.04 distribution using the dovecot-postfix package. sudo apt-get install dovecot-postfix For some reason, I can't seem to disable non-SSL access through dovcecot. I have made the following edits to the…
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Dovecot IMAP indexes are getting locked by Blackberry devices

This is an odd issue that I tend to see with Blackberry devices connecting via IMAP on some of my Sendmail+Dovecot mail deployments. For users of those devices, the Dovecot indexes tend to get locked. This prevents mail flow to the Blackberry device…
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Is SPF enough to make sure emails get delivered to inbox?

So I just succesfully set up postfix + dovecot. is SPF enough to make sure emails get delivered to my website's users? I don't want my emails to end up in their spam box.
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Configure Dovecot to only let localhost connect via imap

How do I configure the Dovecot message delivery agent to only allow imap connections from localhost?
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Applying ACLs to a Dovecot public namespace

I would like to provide access to some mailing lists via a set of public, read-only mailboxes in Dovecot. I have a public namespace define in my dovecot (dovecot-2.0.9) configuration that looks like this: namespace { type = public separator =…
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How to change the date format of maillog?

The format of the dates of my maillog logs looks like this: May 12 04:12:54 I need to include the year on this date. Is it possible to make this kind of change?
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How to force Dovecot to reindex raw email files?

I have an email server running (Postfix and Dovecot). I also have an archive of a bunch of raw email files that look like this: 1492038516.M77184P7110.mail2.mysite.com,S=39609,W=40258:2,Sab I would've used imapsync to get these onto the mail…
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warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

today i set up a mailserver with a german tutorial from here: Now i'm done and need help with my issues. Sry for bad english - i hope my informations help u to help me ^^ mail.log: Nov 18 16:30:00 srv01 postfix/smtpd[23275]: connect from…
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How to check if Postfix was compiled with support for Dovecot SASL?

The Dovecot instructions state: Since version 2.3, Postfix supports SMTP AUTH through Dovecot SASL as introduced in the Dovecot 1.0 series. If using Postfix obtained from a binary (such as a .rpm or .deb file), you can check if Postfix was …
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PAM vs /etc/shadow in Dovecot SASL configuration - Security differences?

I set up a server with Postfix SMTP auth through Dovecot SASL. However, it was not possible to get the PAM authentification working as standard out of the box. So more by chance, I changed it to the shadow driver as explained in Dovecot…
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Extend Dovecot/Postfix setup with Calendar/Contact Sync

I am currently running a mailserver with dovecot (maildir) and postfix. Now one user has to sync his contacts and calendar with outlook and iOS using our service. The only way to do this seems to be with exchange, right? I dont really want to change…
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Generating SSL key for Dovecot and Postfix

Following this tutorial: https://www.vultr.com/docs/simple-mailserver-postfix-dovecot-sieve-debian Trying to create a self-signed SSL certificate for testing purposes for my mail server, using code: openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -sha512 -x509 -days…
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