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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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Can't login via IMAP after creating user via useradd command

I'm trying to create a new user (that can access email) with useradd. My command is useradd --shell /bin/bash --create-home --password However, I cannot login to email. When I use adduser to create an account, I can login to…
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Failed Gmail SPF check when importing mail through IMAP from our mailbox when original email was sent with ESMTP headers

We have a strange situation: we receive an email with ESMTP headers in it our server accepts it, it's fine we import that mail in Gmail like any other emails from our boxes Gmail makes SPF check which fails Gmail uses our server IP address and mail…
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I guess that my mail server is unprotected and spammers are using my mail server to spam myself

Since I switch to my own mail server (I folowed this two tutorials: https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mysql and…
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Postfix: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms (unable to telnet)

I am setting up Postfix with Dovecot for a mail solution. When I try to telnet localhost 25 the connection closes. The error seen in the log is: postfix/smtpd[22958]: initializing the server-side TLS engine postfix/smtpd[22958]: connect from…
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Postfix/Dovecot on a VM. Problems with understanding port fowarding

I've set up a mail server with postfix and dovecot on a virtual machine running debian 7. At first I basically made a seperate network with a host-only adapter , so host and guest were in the same network. 192.168.56.0/24 Network Everything worked…
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Postfix / Dovecot not receiving e-mails in Ubuntu 14.04

I've just setup a VPS with Ubuntu 14.04 at Linode. I have installed Postfix, Dovecot & SquirrelMail to handle E-mail. I am able to send e-mails to other accounts (GMail & Yahoo!) but when I send an e-mail to my self, it's not getting delivered into…
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Postfix logging "Fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms"

I was trying to close the open relay postfix server I had running, as there was spam coming from it, and now I can't get e-mails. The message I get in the log when someone tries to send an email is Fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms This is my…
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ISPconfig / Dovecot - Mysql went down = Mails gone?

So im running ISPconfig with Dovecot as mail-server (storing mails via mysql). Yesterday i made some changes to the mysql-config. I wanted the server to answer also External Requests. The Problem is, with "bind-address" activated to the external…
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Dovecot isn't working after upgrading MariaDB

I've just updated my database engine to MariaDB (5.5.40-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - (Ubuntu)). Everything else (Apache2 :80, :443, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, etc.) but Dovecot is working. I'm not quite sure which package needs to be installed to replace…
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Dovecot Virtual domain/passwd-file login issue

I used this walk through http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix but there is still an issue not allowing me to login. /var/log/dovecot.log Jan 13 10:25:49 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts):…
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Postfix configuration with Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssasin

I am relatively familiar with Debian and have been trying to setup a mail server with this tutorial. Now i have gone through all the comments provided on the website to try route out the problem but they do not seem to work. I have come accross some…
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postfix always_BCC mail system configuration error

I'm trying to setup always_bcc to an archive account in order to copy all inbound and outbound mail into a mailbox that can be sucked up by a third-party cloud archive solution. Outbound, works fine, no issues. Inbound, and the whole thing falls…
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Fail2Ban: I'm having trouble creating a regex for my Dovecot filter

I am trying to create a regex filter for my failed Dovecot entries in the maillog file. What I have created is: .*dovecot: auth: sql\(.*,\): Password mismatch The target line in the maillog is: Dec 9 15:09:51 hawk888 dovecot: auth:…
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Postfix MySQL Dovecot Roundcube configuration

I am in the process of setting up a mail server and I was hoping to get some help. It starts with Roundcube webmail, when I tried to login with an existing correct user name and password it gives me 'Login failed' so I checked the error log at…
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Dovecot configuration

I was setting up a mail server on Amazon EC2 using postfix and dovcot and I seem to be stack on starting up dovecot service. Here is the message i got when I run Service dovecot status dovecot stop/waiting and with dovecot -F doveconf: Fatal:…
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