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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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Dovecot does not delete mails

I installed dovecot on Debian 9 server and everything works fine. But when I delete mails in my mail client and even delete the trash folder, the size of the files does not change. When sending/receiving new mails the dovecot.index.cache file gets…
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Sieve filter not running

I am trying to automatically move mails detected as spam to the junk folder but my sieve filters are not running. I can send and receive mails and mails are detected as spam. X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ... X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Score:…
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WORKING QMAIL TOASTER - QMAIL, VPOPMAIL, DOVECOT AND ROUNDCUBE

Am on an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux AMI Server. I used "Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster v. 0.9.4" at Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster v. 0.9.4 to install the various software packages there, specifically: daemontools, ucspi-tcp, qmail, vpopmail, dovecot, squirrel…
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Gmail not delivering email even though giving 250 OK

I have configured my postfix and dovecot correctly, I can send and receive email on my server. Here`s the snag - if I send email from Thunderbird via SMTP on my server, it gets delivered to gmail within seconds, I can see it in my inbox, no problem…
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Postfix issue Relay access denied through telnet

Getting error relay access denied on a CentOS server with postfix and dovecot installed, trying to set up a catchall email on a CentOS 7 server. Fresh installation, installed Nano text editor and nothing else, pretty much a clean server in case it…
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Dovecot Sieve - How to retrieve part of message as a variable

I need to retrieve some parts of a message which looks like Subject: Test message Message-Id: <2788db2f-b5c3-4b8c-881e-362c3df4f915@server.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report;…
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What is the proper way to create IMAP subfolders using imapclient for Python?

I have code that looks something like this import imapclient archive_folder = "Archive" aggregate_reports_folder = "{0}/Aggregate".format(archive_folder) forensic_reports_folder = "{0}/Forensic".format(archive_folder) server =…
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Compressing existing mail files, readable in Roundcube (dovecot, centos)

Roundcube can read compressed files without the extension c.f. example below: -rwxr-x--- 1 vmail vmail 5170815 Jun 20 10:14 1529504317.M895396P3597.mailstore-clone,S=7142774,W=7235655:2,S Using the file command on the same file…
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Dovecot: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied

i have a strange problem with dovecot, since a day i get this error: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=7788(email) egid=7788(email) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?), dir owned by 0:0…
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Using Dovecot LMTP as LDA

I am trying to set up a postfix mail server with dovecot as MDA. According to this link to set up dovecot to use LMTP I have done the following config. postfix main.cf virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp master.cf submission inet n …
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Strange errors in postfix mail.warn log

How to avoid getting strange records in the mail.warn file? I started to receive it after Debian upgrade from jessie to stretch and postfix upgrade from 2.11.3 to 3.1.8. It is generated once, just after the system reboot. Despite the strange errors…
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How do I fix SASL authentication failure

I'm trying to set up an email server on Centos 7 using postfix and dovecot. whenever I telnet into my server, I get kicked out: [root@mail log]# telnet mail.mydomain.com smtp Trying IP ADDRESS... Connected to mail.mydomain.com. Escape character is…
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How to configure dovecot mail locations to have one user who has multiple imap accounts?

I have mbsync fetch two different email accounts to two different subdirectories of my home directory. Can I have dovecot configured to use both mail locations for a single user? My goal is let gnus (emacs) talk to dovecot to get the mail for both…
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Docker volume NFS uid

I'm in the process of setting up dovecot as docker container. I want to store the Maildir via NFS on a NAS. I'm creating the docker volume like this: docker volume create \ --driver local \ --opt type=nfs \ --opt o=addr=,rw \ --opt…
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Encrypted connection from Nodemailer to Postfix fails with "SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol"

I configured an SMTP mail server using Postfix and Dovecot. OS: Debian 9 Web Server: Apache certificate from https://www.sslforfree.com/ When I try using an external client to send emails over TLS, I get the following error: /var/log/syslog: Oct…
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