Dovecot is a email 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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Dovecot TLS Handshake not working
I have set up my mailserver using http://workaround.org/ispmail and it worked until today, where I can not access the server using IMAP.
The error I see in dovecot.log is
2012-02-09 16:37:40 ...
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Dovecot problems downloading mails
When I run telnet localhost imap2 both from localhost, using IP from external, mutt -f imaps://lasse@"mydomain"@localhost and using webmail, I can view my messages.
But If I run mutt -f ...
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How do I change Dovecot virtual user passwords?
I used one web based control panel to create some virtual users for Dovecot. That control panel no longer works so I need to do this manually.
I need to reset the password for one (virtual) user ...
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Email server port options
I have a web server that also is my mail server - running dovecot and exim4. I currently have 5 open ports that have to do with serving mail, it seems very excessive to me. Its a dedicated box, I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Modern MLM Software with Brains?
So, right now we have a Postfix + Dovecot + Amavis server for our mail.
We do "group lists" as a gaint Alias.
The complaint has come up, that when someone sends an email to everyone@thecompany.com, ...
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Centos 6 + dovecot 2 + postfix + postfixadmin [closed]
Anyone can recommend on a centos 6 dovecot 2 + postfix + postfixadmin tutorial or howto?
There is little info on how to set this up. Ive searched for good info on centos several weeks ago and have a ...
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Mail server will send out going mail but will not recive
I've just set up my first mail server with Postfix
and Dovecot . I can send out going mail (via squirrel mail) fine but cannot recive them . Pingability tells me that "ConnectException: Connection ...
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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 ...
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dovecot master user -> how to get information in the sql query to what account master is trying to log in?
I'm looking for a way to have multiple email accounts to which other users can log in using their logins and passwords in the same way as master user.
by adding additional table in my system I could ...
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Does Cyrus SASL support userdb authentication?
I'm not finding anything that indicates it doesn't; I need to be able to authenticate virtual users. If not do I need to start using dovecot?
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Dovecot 2 /auth-userdb permissions
Error in log file:
userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied
(euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb,
euid is not ...
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Ubuntu: How to change Dovecot POP3 default port to 110?
I was trying to log in to my email from Gmail POP3 feature and I had to try every single port to connect to my mail server.
What's the command on terminal or what file I have to change the Dovecot ...
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Automatically processing an email message Fedora 10 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What do I need to parse incoming emails?
Fedora 10
Postfix Mail Server
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server
A user will send an email to wordlist@mydomain.com.
I want to ...
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relay mail from one postfix server to another
I'm attempting to use just 1 postfix instance to input ALL my outgoing mail. From there the goal is to relay it to my one of the many outbound postfix instances. I do this using round robin dns so it ...
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fail2ban regex to catch dovecot log entry?
Am trying to write a fail2ban regex that catches anyone who tries the user-id "administrador". For example, this log entry:
Jan 2 09:55:01 mail2 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: ...
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How running a mta with exim on centos?
I'm try learning run a MTA with virtual domains and exim from 2 weeks ago.
but now, I can not do any thing. i select exim for mta and dovecot for imap daemon. but i can not run them, i can not ...
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Detecting unreaded mails in Maildir
I like to detect unreaded mails in Maildir mailboxes. The subfolder "new" only content mails that are not already pulled from an MUA. But I want the unreaded mails within INBOX (no virtual subdirs). ...
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postfix+dovecot multiple domains config
I'd like to setup 2 distinct mail services (that look completely separated for end-user) on one machine with 2 IP addresses and 2 domain names. I've started with my current config which is a ...
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How to install postfix/virtual domains/without mysql authentication
I want to install postfix and configure it for virtual domains on centos.
Recently, I configured postfix and it works fine with system users files /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow.
but I want to make dovecot ...
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Unable to send mail using email client via my mail server
I have a mail server setup on Ubuntu 10.04 using postfix and dovecot. I can receive emails on email client like thunderbird, but I can send emails using the same client. Below is the postfix config ...
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In Postfix, how do I measure how much traffic is used by each user or domain?
In Postfix, how do I measure how much traffic is used by each user or domain?
I can see no "out of the box" means of doing this with vanilla postfix, however, I am sure this is a pretty common need. ...
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Can I force dovecot to ignore pop3 requests to delete received email?
this is my first SF question, so please be gentile:
Is there an easy way to force dovecot pop3 server to ignore "delete messages" commands after being fetched by the MUA?
Here are the issues I'm ...
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IMAP email not received but it is in the logs
Our server has apparently lost some email. The company's client says that 2 emails were supposed to have been received and I looked through /var/log/mail.log* files by using zgrep and the two emails ...
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Postfix - Is there a way to reject invalid authentication (even for mynetworks)?
I got a working postfix/dovecot configuration running with the following rule for recipients rejection:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject
This works ...
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Migrating from qmail/courier to postfix/dovecot
I was wondering if it was at all possible to take mail messages from an old vpopmail Maildir and put them into a new dovecot Maildir without editing settings in the new installation (as the new system ...
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How to start dovecot?
I'm building a web server to host multiple websites. I got everything working except the mail server. I'm using linode to host my vps and I've been following their tutorials. FYI, I'm using Ubuntu ...
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How do I setup a secondary incoming mail server?
I currently have a server running Debian 6, with postfix and dovecot handling email. This server hosts email for a number of domains and users, so I use MySQL as my backing store for users and ...
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Dovecot - auth: Fatal: Unknown database driver 'pgsql'
I'm trying to configure Dovecot + Postfix + PostfixAdmin with postgresql support.
I successfully configured postfix to send emails to aliases for my domain, and now I want to configure actual ...
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glusterfs and dovecot problems
Ive got two servers with a shared glusterfs disk, both running dovecot and serving mail from this shared disk. Users read mail only from one of these servers but mail gets delivered to both. ...
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Mail server compromised. Yahoo refusing mails
I think our mail server has been compromised. Today morning when I checked, there were 1298 refused mails from yahoo. with this message Messages from x.x.x.x.x(our ip) temporarily deferred due to user ...
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Dovecot IMAP action log for a user
I had a strange problem crop up this morning.. one of my users emailed me saying that their email from a the last month had disappeared into their trash. This, unfortunately, is a hostile user.. so it ...
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Postfix/Dovecot don't use pam_mkhomedir
I have users in external database. So far - ssh, postfix, dovecot and some others - use entries with no problem.
I have Maildirs inside /home/[user] and if the homedir exists - everything is ok - ...
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In Dovecot/postfix setup, how can I set same email address accounts for different domains
I am setting up a dovecot/postfix environment for handling our pop3/imap accounts.
I am looking for a way to setup email addresses for different domains.
For example;
sales@websiteA.com
...
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Dovecot 2.x unix_listners
Could somebody be able to explain to me what the various unix_listners do in the Dovecot 2.x configuration (specifically 10-master.conf).
Currently, for postfix to use to deliver mail, I have:
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Looking for direction - load-balancing dovecot-postfix
Just looking for a direction to go. There are several HA/load-balancing packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm not sure which one to use. Here is my scenario:
Using Postfix for smtp, dovecot for ...
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Sendmail sending blank recipients via LMTP
The title pretty much sums in up. Local mail is working fine via LMTP, however non-local mail (virtual hosting) is struggling. I've provided as much information below as possible, trying to keep it ...
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Dovecot time sync issue, need to step it back due to broken ntp
I have a postfix MTA with dovecot for pop3/imap etc.. The server's RTC is horrible and is about 10 min fast every month, but this is an annoyance when dealing with logs and because people rely on ...
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Using Dovecot's LMTP with virtual users (with db lookup to map address to mailbox)
I'd like to use dovecot with sql-based virtual users (which already works fine in my current exim+courier-imapd setup).
In my setup there are "mailboxes" which have a mailboxname@domain and a ...
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Support needed creating Dovecot listener on Debian ( postfix)
I would like to create a dovecot lmtp listener under /var/spool/postfix/private/.
Because postfix runs chrooted by default under debian.
How can I do this?
Grtz
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Default subfolders for dovecot
For new accounts, dovecot only has a single default folder, the inbox.
Is there a way to specify a default set of subfolders, preferably immutable, that exist for each inbox?
Ideally, I want each ...
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Postfix/dovecot newbie: Can access mail on server via ssh, but not through mail client
I've just tried setting up a postfix/dovecot server for the first time, with accounts managed through a mysql table. (via tutorial at ...
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Dovecot - Unable to receive mail - Fatal: Plugin 'sieve' not found
Struggling to Dovecot/Postfix set up on Ubuntu 11.10, Dovecot version: 2.0.13, Postfix version: 2.8.5
I can send outbound mail using the mailx command, but I can neither receive mail or send mail ...
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Forcing Dovecot to use SSL
I set up a mail server on an Ubuntu 11.04 distribution using the dovecot-postfix package.
sudo apt-get install dovecot-postfix
For some reason, I can't seem to disable non-SSL access through ...
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Dovecot LDA (deliver) and LDAP groups
I have a LDAP and a Dovecot running on my server, the Dovecot uses LDAP as userdb and authdb, postfix is using LDA (deliver) to deliver the mails to the user. Now I want to have group email addresses ...
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Dovecot with virtual users and managesive
I want to use managesieve in my dovecot server which uses virtual users and a ldap for the users. This is in my dovecot.conf:
plugin {
sieve_dir=/var/mail/sievescript/%u_scripts
sieve_extensions = ...
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Which is the easiest to configure MTA/POP3/IMAP solution? [closed]
I'm having hard time to configure postfix/dovecot + mysql with virtual domains. Still doesn't work for me 100%.
Which is the easiest to install/configure mail solution for centos 6/64bit ?
I just ...
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postfix not storing mail for specific user
I have two users on my box who I want to be able to receive mail, one of the users:
edi:x:10004:10004::/home/edi:/bin/bash
Receives emails fine and they are stored and can be viewed at any time ...
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mail delivered then removed in postfix
I just installed and configured Postfix/Dovecont + Mysql + PostfixAdmin.
When I try to send email from e.g. gmail.com it's delivered but I cannot see it in mail folder. Seems to be deleted. Here is my ...
