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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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Import mail from Google apps to Postfix/Dovecot Maildir

I was using Google apps for work and now I set up my own mail server since I have a lot of users and paying Google would be too much for that number :( Currently my Postfix and Dovecot are set to use Maildir/. I downloaded backup of mails from…
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Mail server change IP (Exim4,Dovecot)

We have a WEB-server running around 12 ecommerce instances and having 4 IPS. 1 active, 3 just in case... One of our websites has been hacked recently and it was used for sending spam, what resulted in IP blacklisting. What measures should be taken…
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IMAP connection refused

I am running Postfix and Dovecot using IMAP and SSL using unix accounts. When running openssl s_client -connect localhost:993 I get an error message Connection Refused, Errno 111. Using telnet mail.example.com 25 and 587 return the correct…
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Cant send message by outlook, roundcube works

I have some problem with dovecot, I have added dovecot_lda support for roundcube sieve filters. Roundcube works perfectly with the filters now. But if i try send messages by smtp (outlook|thunderbird), the mail client ask always pass and doesnt…
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How to copy IMAP accounts on Mac OS X Server

is there a way to copy a user's IMAP account from an old server installation to a new one? I am wanting to set up my Mac OS X Server fresh and want to avoid having to download all the mails and folders onto a local machine to then copy them back. Is…
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dovecot+roundcube (different IP)

How to set dovecot to allow plain auth for some IP? I have lxc-containers - one with roundcube, and one with dovecot. Because the ip are different disable_plaintext_auth = yes disallows plain connection from roundcube. I can't use ssl || tls because…
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2 email server and one static ip

I need to manage two mailservers (postfix and dovecot on different machines) using a single public IP. I thought I solved by putting non-standard ports on the second postfix instance, but I do not get mail from outside my network. Is my approach…
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Postfix with dovecot unable to deliver message

I'm trying to setup a mail service on my server with this and this articles. After finishing configuration, i got working user accounts - its possible to successfully login on each account with Thunderbird, manage folders etc. I can send email from…
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VPS imap-login error

please, could you help me with my problem? I installed VPS. Everythings ok, except email and I cannot figure, why it doesn't work as expected - Squirell mail returns when trying to log in: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Do you know,…
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Dovecot installation errors - cannot create regular file

So i tried to install dovecot-common, dovecot-imapd and dovecot-pop3d. However, I keep getting these error messages: Setting up dovecot-imapd (1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1) ... Creating config file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf with new version cp: cannot…
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Postfix + Dovecot fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

When I try to login via telnet I am getting kicked out immediately: telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. In the logs I get the following error…
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Use LDAP and Local auth as a backup on mail server

We are currently researching the best way to go about switching our mail server (dovecot/postfix/debian 7) from local authentication to ldap (AD) authentication. We would like to have local auth as backup as well during the transition. We could…
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Debian 8 Jessie - Postfix + Dovecot, send but not receive mails

I'm setting up a mail server (with Postfix, Dovecot and Postfixadmin) for a non-profit organization that I'm currently building. I'm able to send but not receive mails over TLS. When sending an email from mail1@mydomain.org to mail2@mydomain.org, it…
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Covert Old Dovecot Configuration to New Format

I am trying to setup a very simple mail server with virtual domains with Postfix and Dovecot. I was following this steps to setup the postfix and first part it worked fine. https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_postfix_virtual_hosting Then i moved to the…
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Telnet Port 25 responds via localhost but not remotely

I just set up Postfix + Dovecot on Ubuntu and it doesn't seem to behave 100% as expected. If I run telnet localhost 25, I get: Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 playground ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) This is good. If…
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