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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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Can send e-mail, however unable to receive an e-mail, and no error e-mail is generated

I am using (well fighting with) postfix and dovecot, the log files are not producing anything related to lost e-mails or errors. I send an e-mail from my gmail account and nothing happens. No unable to send no nothing. A pingability test shows I…
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Dovecot not respecting log file?

I'm installing Dovecot 2.0 and I am running into problems with it checking for new messages. Postfix is getting the messages but dovecot is not finding them. In my dovecot.conf I am using a static userdb which checks my passdb using sql. When I…
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How to get RoundCube work with dovecot and postfix?

I just installed RoundCube, but I'm having difficulties configuring it. I've dovecot, postfix with MySQL installed and it's all running nice and dandy, but I would like to attach a web-mail to it. When I visit the RoundCube webmail, I get this:…
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Any dovecot gotchas I should be aware of? Any alternatives to dovecot mailserver apart from qmail?

we are currently thinking about running a medium size mail service. Currently, dovecot seems to be the a good fit and we are about to setup a small test environment to check out some integration points with other systems. However, I was wondering if…
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AD + Postfix + Dovecot problems with query_filter

I set up a mail server AD + Postfix + Dovecot + Kerberos This works fine for only one domain In the attribute mail=test@test.com, in otherMailbox=vasya@otherdoamin.com,petya@another.net Config files: Postfix ldap-users.cf server_host =…
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Dovecot SQL authentication: How to differentiate between IMAP and POP3 access?

We are running courier currently which enables us to set different SQL userdb queries for IMAP and POP3. We need this because we do not want to give all users IMAP access, a boolean column in the userdb allows IMAP access if set. For performance and…
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Postfix timing out when trying to send mail

I just installed Dovecot and Postfix on a CentOS VPS I have, and am now trying to get it to work. Receiving mail works fine, as does fetching the mailbox with Thunderbird on Windows (using SASL for authentication), but when I'm trying to SEND mail…
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Pop-before-smtp $pat regex for Dovecot in iRedmail

I've installed pop-before-smtp in my mail server(iredmail). I need help to configure the $pat to read the pattern of my Dovecot file. Dovecote log file is like this: 2011-05-14 14:01:21 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=, method=PLAIN,…
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excessive ram usage by pop3-login and imap-login

I have a VPS with DirectAdmin and Dovecot installed on it. On this server on one of my accounts I have 3 different main account which I've managed using gmail and it's pop3 import feature. The problem is that the ram usage has gone up from around…
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Dovecot and StartSSL problems with issuer

I am using dovecot (1) and trying to get my StartSSL certificate running. ssl_key_file points to my private key I tried pointing ssl_cert_file to my public key, with and without using the class1 certificate from…
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Is MySQL 5.5 worth it?

I am about to setup a couple of LAMP servers using Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is that I have noticed that Dovecot needs the MySQL-common package to work. I don't want to install that package since I am going to use the MySQL 5.5 binaries...so I don't…
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Do you need to have your own DNS in order to receive mail on a VPS?

I am wondering if I need my own DNS in order to receive emails on my Ubuntu VPS? I am currently using name.com's DNS with my domain and pointing it with A records to my server, and that works for viewing my site but I can only send mail from the…
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How to grant a kerberos ticket after successful imap authentication from dovecot

An interesting question, I hope. I am running a set of virtual machines under debian 6, to build a mail/collaboration server. I am mainly using dovecot, postfix, openldap and heimdal. Mails are stored using maildir, on a NFSv4 share. My users are…
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Debian Server with Postfix and Dovecot + Spam Management

I currently have an email account that receives TONS of spam because currently I have no filter setup. Is there any way of going through that spam that I am receiving and setup a filter off those hundreds of spam emails instead of just trashing…
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Integrating multiple mailboxes (dovecot, Exim, maildir)

Following an outage, I've ended up with 2 mailboxes for each of my users, on separate machines. I've shut the interim machine down now, and put the mailboxes on the real server in /srv/scratch/$username/Maildir/..., and need to integrate the…
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