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Dovecot Forward Spam
I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge on how this idea can be done. It's not a requirement but more of an idea I came up with that I don't know how to word my google searches to find out if it's ...
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HA mail server configuration
I have a mail domain and two servers (machines) with Centos 6.4 and public IP addresses. Postfix mail server and Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server are installed on both.
How would I set them up redundantly so ...
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Mail server - emails are lost
I juste migrate my mail Postfix + Dovecot server from a dedicated server to another. I've also copied exactly the same configuration, and mailbox folder on the new server.
The SMTP is working fine, ...
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Is it safe to move IMAP message files around?
I'm running postfix + dovecot, and all IMAP messages are in /var/vmail/DOMAIN/USER. I'd like to make a cron script that will look for messages for all users in a folder called 'False Positives,' ...
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Fetch all Mail from an IMAP server with Postfix to distribute on local IMAP server
The situation:
The constellation: We have a managed, dedicated server from a professional provider. We currently have Tobit David.fx server in use within our local network which fetches all E-Mails ...
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Emails from server going to junk/spam in Outlook and Gmail
Althought I have setup my rDNS correctly and have SPF and DomainKeys setup on my cPanel server I'm still getting all emails sent from our mailserver to spam, unless the domain is whitelisted by the ...
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Postfix - mail server connects and then disconnects
I have problems receiving mails from my security cam
My mailserver is running postfix and dovecot
By checking /var/log/mail.log the output is this
mail postfix/smtpd[1677]: connect from ...
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Does rsync migrate mail servers? [closed]
imapsync gives errors, here's my previous post.
So is it possible to migrate mail servers (dovecot to dovecot) using rsync? If not, then how to migrate mail servers? Is there any tools other than ...
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How to automatically forward mail with Postfix/Dovecot?
I set up Postfix/Dovecot with MySQL on a Linode instance from this tutorial, and I am now trying to forward all email that comes to someaddress@mydomain.com to anotheraddress@anotherdomain.com ...
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Postfix SASL+submission relay access denied
I have been at this for a couple of hours, and apparently I am missing something in newer postfix versions. I have the server set up, and it works locally but when I try to send from a remote network ...
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can send mails, can't recive them (centos+postfix+dovecot)
Basicly I'm able to send mails from pine, squirrelmail and pocomail But can't recive mail, all mail endup in postfix queue
here's what I get when trying to send local mail - same thing happens when ...
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Is there any way to mask the INBOX label for Dovecot 1.2x Shared Mailboxes?
I'm setting up a new Dovecot sever to replace an old Cyrus server, and need to keep things as consistent as possible. I have a couple local accounts, like junkmail and notjunkmail that users get ...
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CentOS Dovecot Permission Denied
I have a dovecot mail server setup with Virtualmin, and for some reason, out of the blue, yesterday, the mail server stopped working. I found that in the /var/log/maillog file, I have the following ...
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Postfix/Dovecot with Active Directory
I`d like to integrate Active Directory (Windows Server 2008r2) users with a Postfix/Dovecot email server (Centos 6.3).
But, from a simple test I've made, I can only have one box per user. I'd like ...
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Thunderbird disconnecting from Dovecot
I'm managing a Dovecot POP3 server which serves large number of users. Some of these users are in remote locations. I'm getting reports about users whose Thunderbird clients show the number of mails ...
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PostFix and Dovecot - fatal: no SASL authentication
After following the guide provided by debuntu.org (http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-virtual-emails-accounts-with-postfix-and-dovecot/) which was very helpful, I immediately began having issues with SASL ...
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POP download from now on [closed]
Is it possible to configure options on email server containing Postfix and Dovecot, features
similar to Gmail settings:
Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)
Enable POP ...
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Logging into mail server works through telnet but fails though imap(s) (Dovecot+MySQL)
I have followed the ISPMail tutorial on how to set up a Debian mail server.
I can log into the dovecot server through telnet like this:
[root@{hostname}: /home/{user}]# telnet {hostname}.{TLD} 143
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How can I move mail from one server to another?
I currently host mail accounts on a VPS, which I want to move to a hosted CPanel account.
Mail is handled by Postfix and Dovecot, but I don't know much about the server I want to move the mail to.
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debugging smtp | ubuntu 12.04, postfix, dovecot
I cannot sucessfully connect to my smtp server from my mail client.
I am getting the following errors in my /var/log/mail.log file
Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush ...
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Postfix filter messages and pass to PHP script
Each time a user signs up to our website through an external provider we get a basic email with the body contents containing the user details.
I want to write a personalised automatic reply to this ...
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Possible to configure postfix as inbound server relay for externally hosted server?
We have an offsite hosted email server, which works (but is slow), and all our users connect to it to receive email.
Internal users connect to my postfix server to send email, I want to leave that ...
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How to set-up a mail server using postfix and dovecot so that I can send and recieve emails to and from x@mydomain.com? [closed]
I have no idea if this is the correct place to put this, it seems as if it would be.
I am a complete NOOB. I have looked high and low and found only completely complicated ideas on this. I understand ...
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Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)
I'm hoping I can use some help.
I'm configuring dovecot_ldap, but I can't seem to be able to get dovecot to authenticate the ldap user.
Below is my config and log info:
hosts = 192.168.128.45:3268
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postfix + mysql, user unknown
I have installed postfix with dovecot and postfix admin and all seemed well at the beginning. I can log in with thunderbird and check the mailboxes (all empty now) and TRY to send mail, even TLS ...
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Postfix/Dovecot support multiple domains
I have a server running Postfix/Dovecot with a MySQL back-end which is configured to use the domain name 'olddomain.com'. I am migrating everything to use another domain 'newdomain.com' and ...
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Setting up dovecot to retrieve e-mails from distant device [closed]
I have a problem setting up dovecot. Here is the message I get from the log :
Oct 30 13:47:12 cheerios dovecot: auth: Error: pam(kyle.morris,xxx.xx.xxx.xxx): pam_acct_mgmt() failed: Authentication ...
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Postfix to deliver mail to a virtual address mailbox
Postfix version 2.6.6, Dovecot Version 2.0.9
I want to setup Postfix + Dovecot. Dovecot seems to be working. I can authenticate. However, the mailbox is empty! Nothing will get delivered! I followed ...
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ubuntu mail error coming every 30 min [closed]
501 Your domain does not seem to be valid. Could not find MX record for your domain.
501 5.6.0 Data format error
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 Your domain does not seem to be valid. Could not find MX ...
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Dovecot starting and running, but not listening on any port
Among others things I'm in charge of a Debian GNU/Linux (Wheezy) DomU for the mail services of the company i work for. Yesterday one HDD that was used for this particular server has died. After ...
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Sieve: put mail to subaddress into folder
Is it possible to write a Sieve rule like
if envelope :detail "to" "$x" {
fileinto "inbox.$x";
}
but for all possible $x? I.e. if the user created a folder inbox.foo I want mail addressed to ...
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Fixing Poor Email
I'm having an issue with SenderBase. My IPs are not blocked in any BLs but people who use SenderBase/Ciscos stuff do not get my emails. Is this because my email system is setup poorly?
They list the ...
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Why Does hotmail still reject my emails?
I have a very strange problem with my emails being marked as spam by hotmail.
I just have configured Postfix + Dovecot on my server and all works perfectly. I can Send/Receive emails. I only have ...
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Postfix not receiving non-local mail
I set up a server with Postfix/Dovecot on Linode/Ubuntu 10.04 according to this guide, admittedly I've never done this before. Local mail works just fine, but trying to send email to it from external ...
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How to get a list of Dovecot IMAP users
How do you get a list of users for a dovecot email server that connect via IMAP (as opposed to POP)?
Our server is setup to authenticate via LDAP/PAM. Is there an easy way to get a list of the users ...
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iRedMail alternative for Amazon default AMI
I would like to use iRedMail, but I am having trouble installing it on an AWS instance using the Amazon default AMI.
Is there an alternative open source mail package that includes similar features?
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imap user restriction
I have 50 email users (virtual users) using Dovecot, Postfix and Squirrelmail with CentOS 6.0. I want to allow some users to have access to POP and IMAP globally, and for the remaining users from my ...
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postfix - verify identity/email of a sender
I configured postfix + covecot and everythings works just fine, until I realize that users can send emails signed as any other emails, for example I have mail name@domain.com and I can send email as ...
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Dovecot Virtual Users and Users Domain Mapping
I have successfully compiled, configured and ran Dovecot with virtual users feature.
Here's part of my /etc/dovecot.conf configuration file:
mail_location = maildir:/home/%d/%n/Maildir
auth default ...
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Create email accounts independently from passwd using Dovecot and Postfix
How would I set up Dovecot and Postfix to use a different user database than passwd for the email accounts? I'd would like to have separate accounts for user, who can actually log in via ssh, and user ...
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Postfix forwarding mail to different address if local email box is not present
Situation:
I need to maintain some legacy email accounts on an old domain and old server. What needs to happen is if a local mailbox is present the email should be delivered there however should it ...
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mailboxes not showing up after migration
I'm migrating mail server over to a new machine running dovecot. Everything is running fine but I'm not able to see folders that users created on the old server. Messages that were in the inbox are ...
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Dovecot - different authentification mechanisms for different users
How can I make several groups of users and tune dovecot in a such way, that one group can use plain text auth (for example), second - APOP, third - MD5-CRYPT, etc?
Thanks in advance.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 ...
