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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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Set up postmaster using Postfix on Ubuntu 14.04

I am in need of serious help. I have been on Google, Stackoverflow, Postfix's website and numerous forums. I am officially stuck, I even tried to replicate another machine's config files. The Problem: I am trying to set up Thunderbird to catch…
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Move mail server to a new server with no downtime

We have a server that currently acts as a web, database and mail server. We would like to move mail to its own dedicated server. So: The address for the mail server is mail.example.com. It has A and MX records pointing to server1. We want to point…
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Trying to open imap port but it appears filtered in the firewall

I´m trying to configure a dovecot imap server but I´m having some problems with the imap port in my firewall. I use the APF (advance policy firewall) for managing iptables on a centos server. I try to open the 143 port, but with every nmap, the port…
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Dovecot disable zlib compression and decompress existing messages

After upgrading dovecot to 2.1.7 (wheezy) the mailbox index files seems to be broken. Normaly dovecot should repairs them automatically but due to zlib compression it is not able to determine the correct message size. Error: Corrupted index cache…
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Saving email from cPanel and integrating it to postfix.

I have a shared hosting environment with cPanel installed managing all email creation, forwarding and all other tasks. But now I have moved to VPS using CentOs and already installed postfix, dovecot, roundcube and set up an email server. Now I need…
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dovecot username reformatting / translation

I have usernames in the format user@domain.com and my install of dovecot under virtualmin currently expects and works with the format username.domain . Is it possible to use the settings: auth_username_translation and/or auth_username_format (or…
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Dovecot and reconnection to database

I've got a setup with Dovecot using a PostgreSQL backend together with vmm. I usually get messages like this into log: dovecot: dict: pgsql(10.0.0.2): Connected to database mail Based on investigation I think it's because Dovecot is losing/closing…
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iPhone can't authenticate at dovecot

I've set up a mail server running with postfix and dovecot. Mainly configured as described here. Also I created a signed certificate from Startssl.com. IMAP is running on port 993. From my computer everything works fine. I can send and retrieve…
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Postfix - E-mails missing, no message in the log

I'm setting up a postfix + dovecot mail server for myself on a VPS. I plan to host a couple of domains with it and be able to manage the users via MySQL. It currently works as I would like to but it misses e-mails sent from some hosts. When that…
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Create IMAP mailbox in linux server

I am using Postfix 2.10.2/Dovecot 2.2.5 on RHEL 5.9. I used to create normal virtual mailboxes. How can i create IMAP mailbox and use it and how to differentiate it from POP3 mailboxes ? I hope i am asking the right question, if not please correct…
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Emails won't download to Outlook (dovecot, postfix, debian)

I finally managed to set up dovecot and postfix to the point where I can connect to my server with Outlook to send emails. Receiving emails works too, but I can not download them to my mail client: Emails are saved in /home/USERNAME/Maildir/new and…
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How to get Doveconf to reload its config or read from `/etc/dovecot/`?

Edit Ok, so if you care to read the original question, you'll see I've had a fun time with this. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 - Dovecot v2.1.7 - And it seems my original problem was due to some misconfiguration - so, I re-configured this and that in…
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How to log mail client with Dovecot / Postfix

Does anyone know if it's possible to have Dovecot or Postfix output the mail client of a user? In Dovecot's variables list, I cannot find anything in that direction.
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Virtual and system mailboxes - how to set passdb propperly

I've just configured email on my server. Gentoo, Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV and Spamassasin I am using LMTP for delivering virtual mails, works great. I am using standard postfix deliver method (mailbox_transport) for system users. But since…
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dovecot: auth with more then one method posible

is it possible to auth with more then one method with dovecot ? Ex: password and mysql .... ? the idea is that I like to have system users and virtual users from a database, and dovecot auth and dovecot deliver to manage this.
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