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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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Postfix with SASL

I'm getting crazy configuring POSTFIX + DOVECOT + Authenticated SMTP (SASL for now). Pop/imap accounts works well to get the mailbox, but I cannot login to smtp using sasl: Here: [root@mail postfix]# telnet localhost smtp Trying ::1... telnet:…
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Dovecot (on Mac OS X Server 3 - Mavericks) giving “Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Permission denied”

I recently upgraded my server to Mavericks and I thought everything had gone perfectly. As it turns out, that was not exactly the case. After everything working fine for a week or so, I created a new user and my mail server flat out stopped working.…
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Ubuntu VPS - email and webserver

I have a VPS based on Ubuntu, it has installed whole LAMP, everything needed for a web server and it works perfectly, but I'm still not able to configure it as a mail server.... I have configured MX record for my domain mail.mydomain.com and this…
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Migrating to new dovecot server; Dovecot fails to authenticate using old password database

I am migrating my companies intranet from a OS X server to an Ubuntu 12.04 server. We use a flat file to store user names and passwords hashs. This file is used by Apache and Dovecot to authenticate users. The Ubuntu server is running Dovecot 2.0…
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email server redelivers emails on NFS remount

I am running a postfix/dovecot on debian server with virtual clients on a NFS based maildir backend. My problem is that every once in a while the NFS connection is reset and my clients are receiving all their server stored emails all over again. I…
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Postfix/Dovecot: Relay access denied

I've installed postfix and dovecot-imadp. Connecting using thunderbird works fine, but when I try to send an email I get the following error: 5.7.1 : Relay access denied. What can I do to resolve the issue?
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Postfix virtual_alias stealing emails from virutal_mailbox

I am trying to setup a "catchall" address. In my virtual_mailbox table I have emails setup like so: select * from virtual_users; id | domain_id | password | email ----+-----------+---------------------------------------------- …
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No sasl auth mechanism available

I'm trying to use Dovecot+Postfix+Mysql so far everything worked fine. Since upgrading from Debian 6 to 7 I'm unable to send mails. Receiving is still possible. /var/log/mail.log Oct 22 15:21:24 XXXXXXXX postfix/smtpd[17765]: warning: XXXXX: SASL…
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Postfix and dovecot auth

So I am trying to get my head around how this works in relation to how people can send credentials to authenticate via smtp and send mail. With a typical default set up of postfix and dovecot (with something like…
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Forcing dovecot to use TLS doesn't work

I look for a way to enforce a lamba user to connect to dovecot server with TLS. I followed the documentation http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration , and I edit the dovecot configuration as follow : ssl = required disabled_plain_text =…
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Tracking down dovecot IMAP user bandwidth usage

One of my customers is using massive amounts of bandwidth, it appears to be related to IMAP and not their actual website. There is a logfile /var/log/maillog which logs each IMAP connection and the amount of bytes sent/read to the client: I'm trying…
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Dovecot emails not deletable

I have a Dovecot mail server running an everything is working fine - all emails arrive and new messages can go out. To give the users the possibility to read their emails and to write them, i have installed an RoundCube webmailer. It is working all…
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postfix config: where to put new email for old machines?

Im building a new email server using CentOS 6.4/postfix/dovecot. It needs to support clients that are mainly XP (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc). How do I set the home_mailbox(postfix) and mail_location(dovecot) params to support these older…
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Issue with Dovecot connection staying alive : memory or configuration issue?

I had a similar question posted a while ago, and I Thought it fixed my issue, but that was unfortunately not the case. I have a benchmark application which connects about 500 users to a Dovecot 2.2.5 mailserver using IMAP (plaintext auth, no SSL).…
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Making Dovecot keep its TCP connections alive?

I'm trying to run a benchmarking application which connects to my IMAP server and has a "warm up" phase during which IMAP connections are being established. I've set my limits properly and the mail server should be able to handle all the connection…
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