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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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Possible to configure postfix as inbound server relay for externally hosted server?

We have an offsite hosted email server, which works (but is slow), and all our users connect to it to receive email. Internal users connect to my postfix server to send email, I want to leave that there and create a new email server that can act as…
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warning: dict_ldap_lookup: Search error 1: Operations error

Please I need help with ldap search filter to use to retrieve the user email information from ldap. I'm running postfix_ldap of Ubuntu server 12.04. Everything seems to work fine, except getting the values returned from the search. Version…
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Authentication failure issue on centos

I have configured dovecoat on centOs. When i access email through thunderbird or gmail IMAP. everything goes fine. but when i try to configure using sparrow mail client on Mac osx. Server log shows the below error. Nov 16 12:40:07 localhost…
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I've got very brazen pop3 attack how to protect the server?

Today I have brazen attack to my pop3-dovecot server and mail log is full over (200MB) with this kind of information: Nov 11 09:28:14 lax dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=200.233.152.111,…
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allow each domain to have it's own mail server name

I have apache2 running a few virtual hosts. Each of my websites is working properly. I installed Postfix / Dovecot / MySQL and I can create the domains and users in it's database and everything works. What I'd like to change though is that all my…
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should I use noanonymous?

I have postfix and dovecot on a machine and I don't want anonymous sasl. This is my main.cf smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions =…
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Two Postfix and one dovecot

I need to setup 2 (physical) Postfix server and on one I want to install dovecot. Both Postfix will have same MX priority. I would prefer to have the dovecot Mailstorage folder on a NFS share. Both postfix are responsible for same 2 domains. What's…
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trouble setting up a mail server in cent os

I've been following this tutorial : http://www.linuxmail.info/ to set a mail server on centOS 6. Everything was going fine until I reached this section : http://www.linuxmail.info/ . When I try and connect to my domain name via SMTP I get a…
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if telnet is disabled will imap_open() work

I am trying to connect to my mailbox on my hosting via imap_open() (php) . But its throwing authentication failed error. According to my hosting provider they have disabled telnet for security reasons. Could disabling telnet cause php to not be able…
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Users reporting strange IMAP issues from their mail clients: messages missing, deleted, or moved from folders

The server is a CentOS 5 install running Dovecot for imap access within an office LAN to about 5 computers using Thunderbird. There's only one mailbox, in the Maildir format, and about 20GB in size. One of the drives in the RAID 1 array failed…
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Dovecot version upgrade

I am using ubuntu 12.04 and dovecot version is 1.2.9, I want to upgrade my dovecot version from 1.2.9 to 2.1.7
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Dovecot. HOW to make POP3 and IMAP treat read/unread status independently of one another

I have a dovecot server (maildir). Some clients check their mail through desktop client (POP3) and from their smartphones (IMAP). The problem is that when a message is downloaded through POP3 and gets moved from new to cur folder, the IMAP client…
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Dovecot mail not showing in user's thunderbird

A user has been off work for a week and come in today and told me that there is no email in her inbox and she should have some. I checked on the server in her folder '/export/mailboxes/companyname/user01/cur' and can see that there is indeed mail…
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postfix - verify identity/email of a sender

I configured postfix + covecot and everythings works just fine, until I realize that users can send emails signed as any other emails, for example I have mail name@domain.com and I can send email as bill.gates@microsoft.com, but postfix shouldn't…
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postfix/dovecot filter who can send mail on behalf of

I am using postfix + dovecot(imap+pop3) + mysql I whant to explicity define users or groups that can send email on behalf of others I was thinking doing this way: for all local(mysql) authenticated users filter outgoing mail: filter all mail by…
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