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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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mail directory of exim and courier and ftp accounts?

i'm making a server migration from a cpanel centos 5 box to a plain centos box. i already migrated, files, ssl, user system permissions and installed the basic service: as proftpd, apache, dovecot, exim, dns etc.. now what i can't find is where are…
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Postfix sending mail back to itself? (Ubuntu 9.10)

I setup Dovecot and Postfix using the "Dovecot-Postfix" package with SASL and all that. The Dovecot part seems to be working fine but I'm having issues with Postfix. Whenever I send a message to another address through the postfix server, two…
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How to configure Dovecot to not serve large emails to high-latency clients?

I have a Dovecot mailserver running at home on a flaky cable connection. For the most part, the IMAP functionality works beautifully, but I'd like to add one feature if I can: I want Dovecot not to serve large messages to high-latency clients. …
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Migrating from Exchange Server 2003 to Sendmail in Linux (squirrel mail)

I want to know that how do we migrate the emails from exchange server to Linux sendmail. What are the precautions that we need to take to avoid the data loss? Thanks, G.Gopi Krishna
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Cleaning up the mail processes on Linux

I'm running a web server on Cent OS, Linux version 2.6.9. I only wish to use mail to send emails. However my server has the following processes running: #processes user process 1 root /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp…
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Dovecot says user does not exist although it's in MariaDB database

I use a MariaDB to store users for Dovecot 2.2.10. The Dovecot keeps giving "Disconnected unexpectedly" errors, and I can't find a reason. Is there anything I could look at? Mail logs Aug 29 22:46:15 xxxx postfix/qmgr[3467]: 544A8BB01: from=<>,…
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Dovecot submission service: authentication failes

I have trouble setting up submissions with Dovecot + Postfix. doveadm auth login user pass gives the right output. When I try to send a mail with submission(s) it gives authentication failed error. doveconf -n output: auth_mechanisms = plain…
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How to move Spam emails to Spam folder With RoundCube and Dovecot-Pigeonhole

OS: Rocky Linux 9.2 Services: Dovecot, Dovecot-Pigeonhole, Postfix, Spamassassin, RoundCube I'm trying to move emails flagged as spam by postfix and spamassassin to spam folder using Dovecot-Pigeonhole and RoundCube, I made these steps and the…
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debian dovecot as a submission server

I am using debian 12 as a submission server. I cant get it to work as described. Here is my doveconf -n: auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = vmail namespace…
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SASL authorisation and hostname to access the server

I have a working postfix mail server. It is registered under two DNS names: mail.xxxx.de and xxxx.no-ip.org. I use SASL via dovecot for relay authorisation. It works flawless when the client uses the latter name to access the mail server. However,…
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Not able to receive emails on Postfix

I installed a mail server with Postfix and Dovecot on Debian. I can send emails without worries to Outlook, Yahoo, ...BUT I can't receive emails from outside. I use my internet box (free) as a router. I redirected flows comes on 993, 143, 25 and…
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Dovecot authentication with hardware key ( yubikey )

Recently, I've been working on implementing hardware keys for authorization in dovecot/postfix and unfortunately, perhaps due to lack of knowledge, I wasn't able to implement it. From what I've seen, yubikey has the ability to use private keys (I…
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mail_crypt dovecot plugin requires you to store private key on the server

Why does mail_crypt require generated private key to be stored on the server? I thought that the purpose of encryption at rest is to prevent attacker from reading the contents of user's mailbox. Once someone gains access to the server they can just…
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Dovecot fails to fetch messages due to cache size issues

I migrated maildir users from an old courier imap install to dovecot on docker alpine:latest. Initially everything seemed great, however, a problem seems to have crept in. Some messages will fail to fetch due to cache size differences, the logs…
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Dovecot missed permissions to access mail directory

I'm trying to install a new mail server and I think I've done something completly wrong. I don't know how to fix/continue my current situation. I've installed postfix on my Debian 11 system, working with virtual mailboxes. After that I installed…
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