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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`

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Dovecot QuotaClone plugin

I am trying to get the new QuotaClone plugin in Dovecot (2.2.18) working. The documentation says the configuration should be like this: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota quota_clone plugin { ...
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How do I update Postfix .db files after removing unwanted emails?

I know almost nothing about setting up email, and have inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server with live sites and active email. I'm concerned about upgrading Ubuntu without checking this first. It's ...
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install package from debian backports pool

I want to upgrade my dovecote installation to version 2. I discovered the package here. I also already added deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main to my sources.list. ...
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Manage multiple account from just one

I'll like to know if there is a way to manage multiple email account just from one. I have about 40 or 50 external POP3 email accounts, is there a way to forward all entry emails from those accounts ...
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Dovecot corrupted transaction log file is delaying email

We're running dovecot as an IMAP server and postfix to deliver mail. One of our users is complaining that email is gettin delayed (no we're not using grey listing or anything like that). /var/log/mail....
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Logging into IMAP (Dovecot) server

I am attempting to login to my IMAP Dovecot server on my Amazon EC2 instance. I am attempting to login as root and I recieve this error in the mail log: dovecot: imap: Error: user root: Invalid ...
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Compress old emails with dovecot

How can I configure dovecot to compress/archive old emails (say 6 months old) with the users still being able to read them, to save some precious space on the server?
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Migrate from old to new postfix/dovecot mail server

In short: Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide to migrate maildir data from one dovecot to another? In long: I try to migrate my mail server to a new machine. Old server postfix/dovecot Step-by-...
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Dovecot administration without headaches?

I've run Dovecot+Postfix mail servers in medium-to-large corporate environments, where email addresses are mostly generated via LDAP accounts, or passed down through some HR system or other. I also ...
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Postfix SSL certificates with Comodo (PostivieSSL) - "Unknown Authority"

I have an issue with my mail server running a postfix/dovecot setup, essentially when I run the various security tests I get told that my certificates can't be validated, see here: https://ssl-tools....
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postfix+dovecot store maildir format mail in /var/mail

I want to set up a mail server using postfix and dovecot, that stores mail using the maildir format, and I don't want any of these files to go in user's home directories. Wherever I search for how to ...
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Postfix Connection Timed out

I used the tutorial below to setup postfix and dovecot on a Digital Ocean server. But I'm getting "Connection Timed out" when postfix/smtp tries to deliver an email to a remote host like gmail or ...
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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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Moving mail server to google apps

I just recently moved one of my Mail server (Exim+dovecot) to google apps thinking it would be a good idea. I am interested to hear what the serverfault community think about it, and mostly weight the ...
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How can I fire off a script every time a particular user receives an email?

I have a (Linux) mail server that consists of postfix for receiving mail, amavisd-new for content filtering (using clamav and SpamAssassin), and dovecot for delivery and IMAP. I'd like to set things ...
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Setup Postfix+Dovecot reading from database

I'm trying to setup Postfix and Dovecot, the latter with virtual users stored in a MySQL database, following this guide (but here I recap everything as there are some "bugs" in the guide I fixed ...
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Dovecot namespace prefix relation to underlying Maildir structure

I am trying to figure out if/what there is a connection between the file-system structure and dovecot's namespace prefixes. Specifically, in my setup, I have not declared any namespace, so dovecot ...
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Fetching mails into postfix/dovecot via pop3/imap

I managed to set up my first Debian mail server using postfix and dovecot. I use roundcube to access my IMAP accounts which are defined by virtual users in a MySQL data base. Everything works ...
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SendMail: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

So I've installed Sendmail service, Dovecot and SquirrelMail in my server. I arrived to receive mails from local clients (different hosts in the same newtork). But I cannot send mails from server to ...
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StartSSL cert doesn't work with Dovecot/OpenSMTPD

I've an issue with my StartSSL certificate. When I try to use it to activate SSL encryption on Dovecot, I get the following error in my log when a client attempt a connection to the imap server : ...
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dovecot not letting me telnet localhost 110 -- imap and pop3-login not starting up

I'm setting up a mailserver along the lines of http://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze/setting-up-dovecot. I've done it successfully in the past, the only wrinkle this time is that dovecot has moved up ...
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Dovecot, POP3 and Gmail

I setup Postfix and Dovecot on a new Ubuntu box following these directions. From a client machine, I validate that POP3 seems to be working telnet mydomain.com 110 +OK Dovecot ready. USER me@mydomain....
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Dovecot with Postfix on Ubuntu: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: No such file or directory

I can't seem to get dovecot to start. My log keeps showing this stuff: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Mar 1 17:15:01 mac postfix/smtpd[32526]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed:...
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PostFix+Dovecot: Case Sensitive Email Address

So I'm having a problem with my email server configuration. I setup my server using this guide. It works great my only problem now is that the email address is case sensitive. I understand why that is ...
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How do I configure doveadm -A with passdb?

I'm using Dovecot with passdb as a user database: passdb { args = scheme=sha512-crypt /etc/mail/passwd driver = passwd-file } userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%n ...
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SpamAssassin sendmail permission denied with Postfix

My server worked, but I installed SpamAssassin using a tutorial from Digital Ocean. Here is my /etc/default/spamassassin: # /etc/default/spamassassin # Duncan Findlay # WARNING: please read README....
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Dovecot storing mails in /var/mail, but mail_location set to maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

I have setup Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL using this link. In Brief: My issue is I have made the postfix to handle off the mail delivery to dovecot as mentioned below. I have set the ...
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Managesieve unable to connect to server when trying to install Roundcube autoresponder with Dovecot on Ubuntu

In order to establish an autoresponder i'm trying to install filters through activating the plugin Managesieve in Roundcube. Probably i'm doing something wrong, there's an errormessage in Roundcube ...
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postfix/dovecot - how to view smtp auth user in log files?

I am using postfix with dovecot and virtual users on a centos 6 system. I had a rush of spam recently, with tons of packs of 50 recipients delivered from an unknown account. The current logging (...
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Postfix SASL with Dovecot and Authenticated Smarthost

I have a bit of a problem; I have configured postfix to use dovecot for SMTP AUTH, therefore I had to specify dovecot authentication in the main.cf file. The problem is, I need to also authenticate to ...
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Sieve: filter subject with regex, file into mailbox named match

I am trying to filter mails by subject with a regular expression. The subjects I want to match are read like [git-foo] some more text where foo is the string I want to check for. I end up with the ...
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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 Postfix/...
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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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Postfix 451 4.3.5 Server configuration error

So I'm running mail on my VPS, using Postfix + Dovecot. I am able to send, but not all mail comes in. Note: DOMAIN = my domain, but I blocked it for security reasons. The case: I want to use my mail ...
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Dovecot Sieve does not run?

I'm quite new to Dovecot but it has worked out for me pretty good so far for me. I run dovecot with postfix and amavis and spamassassin and it works out all fine, mails get tagged as junk, sending, ...
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Maildir on Debian Squeeze - Finding email boxes on /lost+found

A server that I'm helping to administrate had a severe file system problem and now there's a lot of files inside the /lost+found directory. I'd like to find the [email protected]'s received and sent ...
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Dovecot unable to perform mysql query

I have been following the ISPMail tutorials on workaround.org (the 2.9 Wheezy version) and thus far everything has been working fine. When I reached the step to "Testing email delivery" step I noticed ...
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Replace characters in a sieve variable

When I register on websites I use their domain in my email, for example [email protected]. I'd like to file each domain into a separate IMAP folder using sieve and I've created the script ...
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Domain aliases in Postfix / Dovecot setup

My mailserver is known by 3 different domains, e.g. mail.local, mail.foo.example.com, mail.bar.example.com. I want delivery to be the same no matter which address was chosen. Ideally I want dovecot to ...
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Installation of Postfix and Dovecot Mail Server on Ubuntu and Postfix will not start

Information on the Mail Server Installation Process Followed... Hello I have a server with DigitalOcean that I am trying to install an email server on so I can add and manage email accounts. This is ...
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Dovecot: deliver reply into same folder as replied-to message

UPDATE (2 sept 2014 13:01): Just to clarify, I'm interested in handling an incoming reply from someone else, so coming in via SMTP. If it is a reply to an email that is already in some mail folder, it ...
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New Dovecot install not allowing login, giving permissions error despite saying that permissions "appear ok"

I'm installing dovecot onto a Virtualbox VM running Ubuntu Server 64-bit 14.04 guest. Dovecot itself is being installed into a Docker container (I'm not sure that that's relevant here, but am noting ...
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How to trigger custom actions in dovecot, when email is moved or deleted?

In my dovecot setup I use virtual folders (not to be confused with virtual users). My goal is to get something like seen in googlemail. I want a folder containing all my messages and also I want to ...
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Postfix: 554 5.7.1 Relay Access Denied

My Problem is this: I can send E-Mails from my E-Mail ([email protected]) to my other Emails like @gmail @web @gmx ... But when I try to send a E-Mail from GMail to [email protected] I have the ...
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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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How to determine if my mail server is configured correctly?

Does anyone know of an online service (similar to the ones that tell you if a site is up or down) that can connect to a specified mail server and perform checks to see if it is configured correctly? ...
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Dovecot imap send spam to junk

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit dovecot 2.2.33.2 spamassassin 3.4.1 amavisd The goal is to run an e-mail server, which I achieved already. I can access the e-mails at the server using Thunderbird ...
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how to use doveadm -A correctly [closed]

I'd like to use doveadm to expunge (and more). When I run doveadm search -u '[email protected]' mailbox Trash savedbefore 90d it works. But when I use -A, it doesn't. doveadm search -A mailbox ...
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Warning `undefined parameter: mua_sender_restrictions` when `postconf -n`

My system is centos 7. I am setting up mail server with postfix,dovecot,mariadb based on this post. There's a problem in my mail server, can send mail but cannot receive mail. Then I postconf -n,...
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Maildir "new" has messages but Inbox is empty

I'm installing a new mail server (Postfix/Dovecot+Maildir) in a fresh OS. Using Thunderbird (or Squirrelmail) I can send mails but my inbox is empty even when I can see them in /home/<mailuser>/...
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