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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Intercept incoming emails via Dovecot

I'm looking for a way to intercept emails received via a dovecot server. Our intent is to somehow capture the header and body of the email, store it in the database (as useable data) which we can process at a later stage. We're attempting to setup a…
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CentOS Postfix/Dovecot status deferred conversation with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] timed out while receiving the initial server greeting

Linux Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 on i686 RAM: 6GB OS: CentOS 6.6 Postfix 2.6.6 Dovecot 2.0.9 Relay Host Verizon Stunnel through 127.0.0.1:2525 Webmin 1.750 Virtualmin 4.17.gpl Multiple Domains IMAP only no POP3 So here is the issue: I…
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After server move postfix/dovecot problems

I have moved from one server provider to another porting all my domains and services. Everything went smoothly at first sight, but I realised now that i am having some problems with dovecot/postfix. First problem: In the webinterface (Roundcube) I…
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Verifying that sieve is working within dovecot

I've set up dovecot with sieve: protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. #postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. # Default is the system's real…
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Serve emails from a folder structure using dovecot

I have a lot of eml files, archived from an account, and stored in a bunch of folders, one per month. It's not a standard maildir structure, and the files don't have special names, they're just like: 2015-01/ foo.eml bar.eml ... 2015-02/ …
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How to check if clients connect to IMAP/POP via TLS or SSL?

I am willing to disable SSL on my dovecot servers (Debian GNU/Linux), leaving TLS as the only option. Before doing so, I would like to know who is still connecting via SSL with older or misconfigured clients, so to warn them and assist the migration…
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Postfix and dovecot can not receive mail

I setup a mail server (with multiple virtual hosts) on a VPS. I used postfix, dovecot, postfixadmin, squirrel and mysql. I can send mail by squirrel, but can not receive any mail. This is my /var/log/maillog Apr 21 16:52:49 vultr postfix/qmgr[8072]:…
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Dovecot STARTTLS fails using fetchmail

I currently try to get my own mail server up and running. So far everything seems fine as I am able to connect to this mailserver using thunderbird. The only thing I have to do is accepting my own (self-signed) certificate. Now as everything seems…
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Postfix Failed to Receive Email

I am trying to set up a mailing server with postfix and dovecot in ubuntu 12.04 following this guide. All seems to have worked out correctly and when I try this echo test | mail email1@example.org everything works out as expected. But when I try to…
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TLS/SSL mail server Certificate installation for Postfix/Dovecot Mail Server Setup

I have tried to setup a my own web-server with mail server, (I am not a linux export just following some tutorials), webserver setup with Nginx,PHP-fpm and MySQL seems to be successful, then i moved on to the mail server setup with postfix and…
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Relay Access Denied - Postfix/Dovecot

Edit: Please, please read the answer before this whole thing, as it'll save you tons of time. Answering my issue was as simple as changing a setting with Outlook, it might be for you, as well. It had nothing to do with any of the config or log…
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Dovecot sieve not processing messages

After recently getting amavis to correctly tag messages, they're coming through with appropriate X-Spam-Flag: YES headers. I've set up dovecot with the sieve protocol: protocol managesieve { # Login executable location. login_executable =…
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Postix or Dovecot debug log for Maildir folder, Virtual user mail folder owner and permission

I'm no able to find a complete tutorial about Maildir and the folders where reside owner and permissions if there's any and you already found it , please share. Anyway I wonder if there is a way to get errors outputs related to Maildir configuration…
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Recomendations for this mail server setup?

EMAIL SERVER SETUP Hey, its my first time using serverfault but I hope the community can help. I am trying to build a secure email system using Linux, Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. I have read on perot.me that you can encrypt incoming mail so I…
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Migrating IMAP emails from a FreeBSD server to a CentOS server both running Dovecot

What would be the best way to do this migration considering that I do not have the passwords for the IMAP accounts on the source server running FreeBSD and Dovecot. I do have SSH access to both servers. Also although both servers use Dovecot on the…