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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 QuotaClone plugin

I am trying to get the new QuotaClone plugin in Dovecot (2.2.18) working. The documentation says the configuration should be like this: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota quota_clone plugin { quota_clone_dict = redis:127.0.0.1:6379 } However, it…
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Dovecot Quotas are not recalculated nor is mail rejected if quota is exceeded

I'm trying to set up quotas in Dovecot. Currently Postfix is running together with Dovecot and postfixadmin, on Debian Jessie. The problem I have is that the quotas are not applied, nor re-calculated. Even if I exceed the quota by 300% or more,…
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Delete old e-mails from a Maildir

I am currently trying to figure out how I can delete old e-mails in one folder of a Maildir installation on a Debian server. Basically what I want to do is to run a cron job every day or so that checks a specific folder in the Maildir for old…
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Why are many mail servers using subdomains like mail.example.com?

I'm just setting up dovecat and postfix for the first time and wondering why so many companies are using subdomains for IMAP and SMTP like smtp.mail.example.com and imap.mail.example.com? What are the benefits or would it be also okay to use just…
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postfix dovecot disable lmtp

I have 3 servers. 1 MX server with postfix and 2 dovecot servers. MX server receive emails and then serve them through LMTP to specific dovecot server. All mailboxes from same domain are on same server. Is there any way to temporary disable LMTP and…
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Dovecot says: "Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only CRYPT" yet CRAM-MD5 is available

Following upgrade of Fedora Core 16 to Fedora Core 21, the new Dovecot installation isn't authenticating correctly and it's not at all clear why. We have 50+ email accounts served by this server, so I was hoping to keep the previous schemes working…
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How to handle external alias with dspam as daemon between postfix and dovecot with virtual domains?

I've got the following situation for incoming mail with Postfix 2.9.6, DSpam 3.10.1 and Dovecot 2.1.7: Incoming Mail -> SMTP -> LMTP -> DSpam (as daemon) -> LMTP -> Dovecot I've got virtual domains with virtual mailboxes. Everything works fine so…
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postfix "User doesn't exist" but user does exist

I am having a strange situation which I could not find elsewhere. When I send mail to rcook on my local machine, I'm seeing this in the syslog: Feb 16 20:27:14 linode postfix/pickup[1305]: 326CC4463F: uid=0 from= Feb 16 20:27:14 linode…
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IMAP TLS connection to Dovecot fails

Original title: IMAP connection to Dovecot fails only from Thunderbird I have set up Dovecot with SSL (TLS) on port 993. I can connect with Outlook, PHP SMTP and Android Mail, however Thunderbird doesn't connect. It says Configuration could not be…
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Dovecot SSL Certificate is not accepted

I have certificates issued from StartSSL, which is a trusted authority for certificates, and my websites work with its certificates with no problems and no complaints from all browsers about any trust issues. Now I wanted to have the same programmed…
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Dovecot: "Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped"

I've been seeing this warning in the last few months, when my email client is unable to connect to our dovecot IMAP server. Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Googling this I've seen…
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Postfix sends as hostname.domain.com instead of domain.com

I've been trying to set up a debian mail server running postfix, but when I try to send mail via mail example@outlook.com the recipient sees the sender as hostname.domain.com. The hostname it sends does not have an A or MX record set up to it, it…
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Postfix: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied

I had a Postfix/Dovecot server up and running for about a week until I had to reboot it. When I did, things stopped working. I've been up searching for hours to no avail. IMAP successfully authenticates (despite dovecot being configured to piggyback…
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dovecot start "Address already in use" error

I'm currently trying to use some "me@mydomain.com" adresses on my dedicated server (Centos5). To do so, I'm tring to launch dovecot with /etc/init.d/dovecot start, but I get the following error message : Starting Dovecot Imap: Error:…
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How to automatically forward mail with Postfix/Dovecot?

I set up Postfix/Dovecot with MySQL on a Linode instance from this tutorial, and I am now trying to forward all email that comes to someaddress@mydomain.com to anotheraddress@anotherdomain.com automatically. For some reason, even after extensive…
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