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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Filter mail which was delivered to root's inbox

My mailserver was set so that all the mails to info@domain were going to the root Maildir. Now, I'm wondering how could I "filter" these mails out so that I can see which mails were tried to be sent to info@domain. I am using postfix + dovecot and…
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Can't send mail from Windows Phone (Postfix server)

Some background: I have a Dovecot/Postfix setup to handle email for a few domains. We have imap and smtp setup on various devices (Macs, iPhones, PCs, etc) and it works no problem. I've recently bought a Windows Phone and I'm trying to setup the…
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login faild when autorize dovecot from pam

I installed dovecot 2.0.13 with postfix in ubuntu server 11.10 , after installation I can send e-mail with the mail command and dovecot works when I test it with telnet I then installed roundcube on it , and the installation passed all tests. I want…
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SMTP Unreachable from Specific Networks

I host my business site through a VPS account. The instance runs Ubuntu and I'm using POSTFIX+Dovecot as my mail server. For the most part, the mail server works fine. I have noticed, however, that I can not send mail from specific local networks. I…
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How to fix a Postfix/MySQL/Dovecot Unknown Host Issue?

I am having an issue with one of my Postfix/Dovecot mail servers and I'm unsure how to fix the problem. I will try to explain it in detail, here it goes: I have an Ubuntu server setup using Virtual hosting with Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. We have…
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Postfix and dovecot: How to receive messages with large attachments?

I configured postfix and dovecot on Debian 6.0. I have set high limits both for my php and my postfix configuration file, but I am still unable to receive large email messages or messages with large attachment files (5 MB or greater) via the…
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Create filter type of folder/mailbox with Dovecot

Note: various people/cultures/background call these things differently, I will call them folders (as seen by a mail client) so most readers should understand. The question is: with Dovecot is it possible to create a folder which stores not actual…
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Authenticate with postfix/dovecot with user apache

We have an up-to-date Centos 5.8 with Apache, Postfix and Dovecot installed and running without problem. Someone or something keeps logging in to postfix/dovecot as the apache user and spamming @comcast.net email addresses. The log entries look like…
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postfix pop-before-smtp isn't parsing the log correctly - need PERL help, I think

We've been using Postfix for a LONG time now and are kind of hooked on it. Now we need to "move into the modern era" and let people SEND email from our SMTP server(s) even when they're outside our network. So, tasked with this job, I've found…
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Cannot get dovecot SASL to work with postfix

Running debian 6, I believe I've enabled everything correctly, followed various guides to double check as I've been working on this for 3 days now. I've tested both dovecot and postfix with telnet and they work as best as I can tell, however I'm not…
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exim & dovecot user over quota: reject on send?

i have an exim + dovecot mailserver setup with per-user quota (via mysql lookup) running. the server rejects incoming mail from non-local senders when the targeted local mailbox is over quota. the local user can send out mails without restrictions…
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Dovecot - different authentification mechanisms for different users

How can I make several groups of users and tune dovecot in a such way, that one group can use plain text auth (for example), second - APOP, third - MD5-CRYPT, etc? Thanks in advance.
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Dovecot, maildir on Windows 2008r2 NFS share

I'm really banging my head on this one. I have a CentOS 6.1 running postfix/dovecot accessing a Windows 2008R2sp1 NFS share. In a test where the Windows server is a stand-alone file server, I can process email no problem. Once I try to do the…
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Ubuntu 10.04 Postfix Dovecot ISPConfig 3 - send spam from own domain to random users

My Config: Ubuntu 10.04 Postfix 2.7.0 Dovecot 1.2.9 ISPConfig 3.0.4.2 I've got the problem that a unknown / invalid user e.g dexter_rollins@xxxx> sends mails to different emails. Every 5 - 7 min it's sending 10 emails with random senders and…
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Postfix issue with relay access denied - I HAVE READ ALL similar cases and tried almost everything

this is first time I set up a server from scratch and I consider myself a fast and good learner for new stuff, so I did my best to setup postfix with dovecot in CENTOS 6, so I'm getting relay access denied on my maillog: warning: 187.167.4.199:…