E-mail clients using IMAP often leave messages on the server until the user deletes them. This allows multiple clients to manage the same mailbox - useful for support help desks for example. IMAP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ...
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IMAP , Minimum, Infrastructure/Network/Server required
As the title sugest i would like your feedback about IMAP accounts, any sugestion experience you have with it would be apreciated...
My current goal is migrating a mail server that is using pop to ...
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1answer
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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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When is a mail relay needed?
Let me expand...
I have a client who is unhappy with their current hosting situation. They want me to move their website and domain across to my hosting platform. I can do this.
However I have ...
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1answer
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What's a good way of handing pop3 mail to an imap server?
I've got several POP3 accounts that need to be collected and handed to an IMAP server.
This must be safe, so anything racey or non-atomic won't work. How should I do this?
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IMAP and server data loss: what happens? [migrated]
I know that when using IMAP, changes made locally in your email client(s) are reflected onto the server, and vice versa. So if you delete an email in your email provider's webmail, it'll no longer ...
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1answer
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Linux / Debian Setting up a mailserver (DNS records)
I have a server running Debian. I installed iRedMail, but now I want to access the mailserver externally (receive and send mails). I have to set up DNS records for that, but I can't seem to figure it ...
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1answer
114 views
Out of memory errors on imapsync
I'm currently running IMAPsync on CentOS and I'm getting out of memory errors. The problem I'm having is that I'm using the smallest mailbox as a test case, and it's not helping my confidence level to ...
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2answers
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How to migate from IMAP to Exchange
I have about 30 accounts that I have to migrate from IMAP based folder system to an exchange based system. Th desktops all run OSX apple mail.
I have access to all the credentials for all the ...
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1answer
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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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IMAP/QMail: Synchronisation work only sporadically. DISCONNECTED in mail.err
We recently migrated to a new VPS (openSUSE 11.3) and configured several email accounts via PLESK. While the setup of the email clients worked like a charm we have many problems getting latest emails ...
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Cannot connect to Ubuntu Courier-IMAP server from Thunderbird
I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid EBS boot from alestic in my Amazon EC2 micro instance. Then I've followed the following tutorial:
...
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2answers
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Why is my IMAP port not showing as open ( yet it works? )
Ive recently setup Postfix and Dovecot IMAP on a Debian Lenny box. Sending to this domain works fine and reading the email via IMAP works fine too. I'm curious though as to why when running nmap, port ...
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2answers
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Verify IMAP/POP3 connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
I wanted to fully explore IMAP connections from the command line, if I can connect via Thunderbird, then I should be able to via telnet?!
Microsoft detail IMAP login as :-
LOGIN ...
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1answer
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Debian 6 home server [closed]
I need some help to get started. I've been trying and trying to get everything working for my home server.
What I want is a guide to install all this:
LAMP (and the additions to this like ...
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4answers
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Why do server administrators not open up IMAP on an Exchange server? [closed]
In a corporate environment running Exchange and Outlook clients connecting to it why do server administrators not allow IMAP to be turned on for those that would like to connect to the server using ...
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3answers
155 views
Using Google Authenticator with an IMAP server
Google released it's Google Authenticator Module with a PAM interface.
Have someone experience on implementing this into an imap server?
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4answers
76 views
How can I easily set up an email server for development purposes?
I'm developing a webmail UI, but I can't use Mailgun or my Gmail account, as I need public and shared namespaces.
I tried to install Dovecot, but it required tons of configuration.
Is there a server ...
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2answers
52 views
Easier way to manage POP3 accounts on CentOS6
We are setting up a brand new CentOS6 (64bit) server. Our hosting company just made it online and now we are installing packages such as httpd, mysql, etc.
We have postfix running on the machine. ...
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1answer
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Installing Imap PHP extension on VPS
I've been trying to install the imap extension on my server by doing the following:
sudo apt-get install php5-imap
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd2 restart apache2-ps----
Everything seems to work fine, the ...
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2answers
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Exposing IMAP server to Internet: DMZ or Port Forwarding?
We currently have all our email stored on a Dovecot IMAP server in our internal network. Client machines on the network are able to connect and access their email.
Now we want to allow certain users ...
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1answer
122 views
9GB of e-mails went away, disappearing emails from Trash folder [closed]
Centos 5.2 + Plesk 10.3 + Imap + Qmail *updated
One of my e-mail accounts contains historical messages dating back to 2006. The account uses a total of about 9GB of space in 40,000 individual ...
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Backup IMAP mails to local HD in OS X?
we use the Rackspace Mail Server as our mailserver. Because one mailbox is going to be full (800mb left from 10gb), I want to save all mails to a local HD so I can delete some stuff on the server. As ...
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0answers
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How to activate (imap) php extension on IIS 6 with FastCGI?
I am using a Windows 2003 Server along with PHP 5. PHP is connected with IIS by FastCGI.
I need to activate the imap extension in PHP, so I edited the php.ini:
I checked the extension path, it's ...
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1answer
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Can't login to Cyrus IMAP with domain name in username, can if I don't qualify with domain name
I'm trying to install Cyrus with SASL for authentication. I'm struggling getting logins to work properly though. I'm trying to setup virtual hosting, as we'll have several domains worth of email on ...
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0answers
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Shared Mailbox ACLs on Cyrus so user can insert/delete messages but not move the mailbox?
I'm having a bit of an issue setting the ACLs on a shared mailbox. Specifically, once subscribed to a shared mailbox with write access, a user can, in Thunderbird, click and drag the shared mailbox ...
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1answer
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pam_ldap, where is the filter set?
A while ago I asked a question about this same issue already (Cyrus on CentOS with sasl / pam / ldap), and I came a bit further.
The Bind DN is no longer empty; LDAP works with all apps except imap.
...
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1answer
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Recover hard deleted items from Exchange
My MD had a clear out of her mailbox (anything from september 2011 back to 2005 was deleted!) she is now majorly regretting this as there was contracts etc etc in there.
Now I have looked in OWA but ...
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2answers
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How do I find out if my server is running IMAP?
We are currently running a Centos server with Plesk.
How do I find out what IMAP server (if any) is running?
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3answers
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Short of downloading the actual contents of each message, is there a way to determine whether an email on two IMAP servers is the same?
The background is, I'm trying to migrate mail between two IMAP servers and I want to make sure that in the event of a re-retry, a duplicate message isn't migrated again. What I'd like is to query each ...
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2answers
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MDaemon cannot start IMAP server, seem that “something else” is blocking it
We were using our MDaemon email server on Windows Server 2003 for years without any issue.
Since a few days, the IMAP server suddently stop and gave us one error message:
Winsock Error 10013 ...
3
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1answer
160 views
Exchange 2010 IMAP issue
We have Exchange 2003 and 2010 servers in our environment with IMAP access (non SSL) enabled to an Exchange 2010 client access server. After establishing an IMAP telnet connection and logging in as ...
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0answers
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SENDMAIL + CYRUS delivery not working
I have a CYRUS+SENDMAIL installation has been working flawlessly for the last couple of years.
This morning, my server stopped delivering mails to CYRUS backend.
My Server Configuration:
FreeBSD ...
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0answers
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Problems with Outlook 2011(Mac) speaking to Dovecot
Hoping someone can help me identify where my problem lies.
I am trying to use Outlook 2011 on the Mac to connect to email accounts hosted on a Debian Lenny server running postfix and dovecot(v1). ...
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1answer
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get imap messages from database instead connect to imap server?
I have written a forum application and I want to create message boxes for each user.
For example, user member name is Osama his mail box will be osama@mysite.com.
I have installed postfix on my ...
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1answer
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Proper imap folder structure
I want to build proper configuration for IMAP folder structure at my clients mailboxes so they can use Windows Mail or Live Mail without problems.
Can anyone tell me right config or folder structure ...
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1answer
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mail2ftp Interface with Postfix/Cyrus
i try to build a solution to transfer attachments from Mail to an ftp folder, any suggestions solve this task?
My first idea was to write a shell script who fetch the mail from the Cyrus /var/imap ...
2
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1answer
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Exchange 2010 only allows 1 IMAP/POP3 account to be logged in
We just moved to Exchange 2010 and the IMAP/POP3 accounts are only allowing one person to be logged into them at a time. The second person that tries to login gets an invalid username/password window.
...
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1answer
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Turning on UFW stops my e-mail client functioning (both imap and smtp) even though they are allowed?
I am using ubuntu 10.04 on a VPS. Without enabling UFW everythign works fine - imap using port 143. And sends emails using smtp port 587.
However, when I turn on UFW a lot of problems are ...
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Google IMAP Is Slow, there is a way to make it faster? [closed]
i have gmail account about 3 years, its got 10,000+ messages there, i installed outlook today and i tried to use IMAP Feature (i enabled it before coupule of years)
the problem its very very slow. is ...
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1answer
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Running rules on a mailbox?
I'm trying to run some smartsieve rules on a IMAP mailbox, I can certainly do this for mails that are delivered to that mailbox, but for emails that are already in that mailbox, or ones that a moved ...
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1answer
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Exchange 2010 IMAP only allowing 1 active user
we recently switched to exchange 2010 (clean install) and we are having an issue with our IMAP account only allowing 1 person to be in it at a time. The rest get kicked back and given the option to ...
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1answer
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exchange 2010 issues with IMAP/POP3/Iphone4. unable to setup on internal network
on our internal domain we have exchange 2010 that I have been setting up. It seems to all be working except the iphones/POP3/IMAP. They will not setup on the local network.
As to not conflict with our ...
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1answer
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What's a good open source solution that supports push e-mail?
Currently using Exim4 + courier-imaps + spamassassin but would like to get push e-mail on my iPhone and Android devices!
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2answers
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Email backup with Roundcube
My email hosting provider gives me access to a personal, cheap IMAP server with limited mail storage space (100 Mb). I like this, because I do not want (i.e: know how) to administer a mail server. ...
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1answer
235 views
Simple Mail Server on Arch Linux
Looking through all sorts of tutorials I have not yet found one that I can use to set up a simple mail server for non-virtual users. I don't want to support any sort of virtual users, just two real ...
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2answers
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Any dovecot gotchas I should be aware of? Any alternatives to dovecot mailserver apart from qmail?
we are currently thinking about running a medium size mail service.
Currently, dovecot seems to be the a good fit and we are about to setup a small test environment to check out some integration ...
3
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1answer
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How to have multiple imap servers installed (only one working) in CentOS
I have courier-imap currently installed on my CentOS server. I would like to install another imap server (such as dovecot) without uninstalling courier-imap, and then be able to switch between them, ...
2
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1answer
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How do I enable Exchange 2010 for IMAP (SSL and non SSL)?
I need to permit SSL and non non-ssl clients to use IMAP.
What is the command to enable IMAP in SSL and non-SSL mode?
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How to export outlook 2007 emails on imap account?
When i go to export it only allows to export from Archives or Personal folder.
Account i have in list is myname@mysite.com is not available for export why?
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1answer
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Dovecot SQL authentication: How to differentiate between IMAP and POP3 access?
We are running courier currently which enables us to set different SQL userdb queries for IMAP and POP3. We need this because we do not want to give all users IMAP access, a boolean column in the ...
