Questions tagged [dovecot]

QUESTIONS ABOUT POSTFIX ADMINISTRATION ARE OFF-TOPIC. Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux

Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux originally developed by Timo Sirainen in 2002.

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Move E-Mails to subfolder of inbox using sieve

Do I need any option, to move matching emails to a subfolder of the inbox? My /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf: namespace inbox { inbox = yes } And the /srv/vmail/spam-global.sieve: if address "From" "monitoring@example.com" { …
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How to rewrite outgoing email address to SMTP login name in postfix?

I host a mail server, where users log in via SMTP to send email. The current config of postfix allows every authenticated user to send emails with any sender address. My objective is to prevent users sending mail with an other FROM: address than the…
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Alias with all users in mysql table for postfix/dovecot

I have a table with users for my mail server. This table for imap authenfication in…
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Create alias with all users from mysql table in postfix/dovecot

I have a table with users for my mail server. This table for imap authenfication in…
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duplicate imap uid validities with mbsync

I am using mbsync to get imap mail from my university server and then dovecot locally to serve it to gnus/emacs. This works fine on one desktop machine, and one laptop, but a second laptop creates duplicate UIDs everytime I use it to access my mail.…
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IMAP migration and changes to folder structure

I am using imapcopy on a ubuntu 14.04 server and telnet to migrate and respectively edit heavy imap inboxes accounts. I would like to flatten the folder structure, meaning that I want to select and copy all emails from all children folders into one…
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Gitlab can't deliver email to Gmail Accounts

Problem I have a Gitlab Omnibus edition installed on a DigitalOcean server. I find that when I create a new user account with a gmail ID, they never receive any email from Gitlab. Poking through the mail.log file: Jun 2 00:02:34 hostname…
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Thunderbird does not connect to Postfix/Dovecot. Webmail works

Thunderbird does not connect to Postfix/Dovecot. My webmail interface works with login (name@domain.tld + password), incoming (SSL/TLS, Port 993) and outgoing messages (STARTTLS, Port 587). I did a bit debugging and got to know that it must be a…
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Postfix authentication with Dovecot and integrating Sendgrid

I currently have a working mailserver with Postfix and Dovecot with virtual mailboxes in mySQL. However, I have a problem setting Sendgrid as relayhost. As said, the authentication is done as follows: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path =…
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Configure dovecot and exim4 to accept username@company.com logins

I can login on my IMAP server using my username, but can't using username@company.com (related: Dovecot Authentication failed if trying login with @domain) . Same thing happens for SMTP with exim4. How can I setup dovecot (IMAP) and exim4 (SMTP) to…
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How to Create Mail Account manually by exim?

i have exim and dovecot in my server for mail-server How could i manually create email account like user@mydomain.com with defined pass ? i don't want to use any pricing server software like cPanel or ... is there any free and stable…
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Aliases not working

I'm trying to setup a mailserver with postfix and dovecot, however I can't get aliases to work for some reason. Everytime I send a mail to an alias I get "User unknown" or "User unknown in virtual mailbox table". I've used postmap -q…
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Script to automatically create a dovecot.sieve rule for emails in a inbox subdirectory

after browsing/using the solutions on this great site for some time, it is finally time for me to participate. I have a pretty clear concept of what i want, but am searching for the nicest way to get there. What do i want?: For some time now, I use…
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Dovecot Authentication failed if trying login with @domain

When I try to test my IMAP server functionality using telnet I encounter the following error. If during the test i omit the @domain.ex everything works fine(as you can see below); a login user password a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR…
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migrate from Thunderbird to Maildir

I am using Thunderbird for more than 10 years and did always load my mails via POP3 from the server, so now I have thousands of old mails stored locally. The mail-server I used all this years is managed by a friend on his machine. But I am managing…
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