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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ports 993 and 995 not open even though opened in iptables

Hi I have a problem with imaps and pops access of email clients to mail server (postfix/dovecot) telnet from the servers shell (ubuntu 12.04, postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, amavis) to ports 587, 25, 110 465 works, but 995 and 993 timeout when i try…
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Can send, but not receive email

I am able to send but not receive email on my server - this is similar to an issue I had before, but I've gotten further along and my emails send without issue. I believe the email receiving problem is based on my MX record. My postfix main.cf file…
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openssl s_client shows TLS working on ports 993,465, but mail clients time out on connection attempts

With the recent scares over POODLE, we have begun the process of changing everyone's connections to TLS, instead of SSL... While this process went smoothly for HTTPS, it seems that Dovecot & Postfix reject (or drop, rather - since the connection…
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Dovecot copy user emails

I have to create new accounts for certain users, copy all their mailing to their new account and then disable the old one (so not simply renaming email users). Eg: user1@corp.com to usernewname1@corp.com I did add usernewname1 and tried a simple cp…
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Postfix on CentOS - Cannot receive emails

I'm trying with no success to setup Postfix on my server so I need some help (first timer here). Basically I cannot receive emails from anywhere. If I send an email to myself or to another address inside my network (e.g. from john@mydomain.com to…
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Create Public/Shared Mailbox on OS X Server 10.9.5 with Dovecot 2.2.5

how can I create a Public/Shared Mailbox on OS X Server? This Mailbox should be available to all authenticated Users on my network and should be automatically subscribed into a folder "Public" in the Mailbox folder structure. The folder structure in…
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dovecot 2.1 new imap folder permissions

I am migrating an old mail (postfix/dovecot) server to a new one. Everything works much as expected. I have a small obstacle though. I use mbox format and the setup is pretty much simple. Suppose a user's home directory is the following: …
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Exim rejected RCPT

Recently I changed the router on the network, opened all the ports up and got it working Not long after making this change mail on the server stopped working. The mail log is returning this message: "rejected RCPT" 2014-10-09 21:15:04…
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Dovecot create mbox type mailboxes even it shouldn't

I'm almost in finished task, but devecot always create mbox type mailbox for users even I've configured to use maildir syntax. I'm using dovecot, postfix, postfixadmin and MySQL in my server. Snippet from 10-mail.conf mail_location =…
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Copy dovecot mail files from backup back into user's mailboxes

My old server was cloned to a new machine, but all mails for a certain date range were not copied over.. If I look in each user's mailbox, all mail files for a certain date range are missing. I did find the files on a backup image however. How can I…
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postfix/dovecot/mysql not sending/getting emails

I understand that I posted this before, however I left out some very important details which apparently made a lot of people less likely to answer, here's a more detailed version. My postfix/dovecot/mysql virtual mail system is not receiving mail…
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Postfix SMTP authentication

I used this guide to create a mailserver for a small business: https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy. IMAP is working perfectly but i ran into an issue with SMTP and Authenticated SMTP. When i use an email client (Inky, Airmail) i got logs from the…
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sieve redirect to foreign email gets "Relay access denied"

I have a postfix mail server with sql authentication and I want to implement sieve on it. Sieve is working relative good, rules who contain 'fileinto' are executed perfectly. I configured a rule in Sieve to redirect any email containing "redirect"…
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Postfix configuration;

I cofigure a postfix/dovecot. I'm using default dovecot certificate for testing. but when i try to restart service integrity fail. But I'm not sure where is the problem. I followed DigitalOcean guide. Where the problem, what parameter must be…
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Dovecot pop3: Disconnected for inactivity

We've application fetching messages from mailbox inbox. Once, application stoppped fetching, then we'd the following in maillog: Aug 15 11:03:47 server_name postfix/virtual[16743]: 731E258003: to=, relay=virtual, delay=0.06,…
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