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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How to import PST extracted from Exchange db to linux IMAP server?
I had an Exchange 2000 server that crashed, I recovered the PST mailboxes from the .edb database.
Now I'll move to a linux webhosting with imap support. I've to import the PST contents in the ...
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Iphone and exchange 2003 using imap and password incorrect issue
I have been trying to setup exchange 2003 emails on Iphone email client using imap and was successful in setting up an email account. But i couldn't setup other two email account on the same phone and ...
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1answer
55 views
What is the best way to setup redundant pop servers?
I am in charge of setting up our company email infrastructure and have a question on how to setup redundant pop/IMAP servers. I understand that I can setup failover for inbound email using MX records ...
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1answer
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TLS with GNU Mailutils 0.6 IMAP4d
I have been fighting with the ancient GNU Mailutils 0.6 for quite a while now. I am supposed to set up the IMAP4d service from this version for an IT security exercise. I may not update the program, ...
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20GB+ worth of emails in my /home what is a better solution for that? [migrated]
My email storage requirements are outgrowing anything reasonable with respect to local mail storage. As we speak 99% of my home partition is filled with personal mail in Thunderbirds mail dirs. ...
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4answers
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qmail to zimbra migration
I am not a mail server admin, however I've been given the task to migrate our company's current qmail server (running on Ubuntu 8.0) to a new Redhat Enterprise Linux server (RHEL 6.2).
After doing ...
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1answer
60 views
Dovecot ignoring maximum number of IMAP connections
I have a single mailbox mail server running Dovecot/Postfix and I have two IMAP clients, Thunderbird on the PC and K9 on Android. I keep on receiving this error in my logs even after I change the ...
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Courier IMAP always disconnects since update
Since one of our customers updated their server courier does not handle IMAP connections properly any more. POP3 works without any problems.
When I try to test IMAP with telnet then it is always like ...
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Trying to limit IMAP folders/mailboxes my iPhone/iPad sees
(Note: I am using dovecot 1.0.10 on Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS. Yes, I know I need to upgrade before next year :)
(Note: The SMTP/IMAP server in question only servers a few users. Certainly what I propose ...
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1answer
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after running out of disk space, cyrus imapd fails for only one single user
A Debian server with an existing (and perfectly) running cyrus imapd run out of disk space. After deleting some unused old stuff, there is enough space again. But for one single specific user it is no ...
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1answer
80 views
How \Deleted flag can be unset for all mails in cyrus-imapd mailbox?
I have a 5GB mailbox which I moved using imapsync. But somehow I
messed up with --delete/--delete2 option and end up with almost all the messages
having \Deleted flag set. I do not have delayed ...
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Migrate Maildir between courier and dovecot servers
I have several tarballs that make up all the previous emails for two or three accounts on a mail server. This machine we be shut down within a few weeks and so I need to migrate all the previously ...
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Disable user_deny.db in Cyrus/imapd
We have a cyrus 2.4.12 on Debian, we use packages, rather than building each software ourselves.
I am getting the this "log" constantly, a lot of, various users, and 8-10 times per user request:
...
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Filter E-mails with an linux server
I want to setup an system on my server to filter my emails in folders and so on. The server is not an email relay, I want to handle it like an email client via IMAP. The reason is that I have multiple ...
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2answers
140 views
Migrating users and mailboxes from postfix / Maildir to Postfix with Mysql backend
So I've got 60 or so users on a hand rolled postfix installation on openbsd and I'd like to move their mailboxes to our new mail server running iRedMail (postfix, vmail/mysql back end)
Does anyone ...
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1answer
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plesk + high POP3/IMAP traffic, how to check details?
Please check this image, it's a screenshot from plesk 10 of 1 domains mail traffic:
This domain has about 1GB POP3/IMAP (OUT) traffic each day. I know that this is not normal because I know the ...
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2answers
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Create filter type of folder/mailbox with Dovecot
Note: various people/cultures/background call these things differently, I will call them folders (as seen by a mail client) so most readers should understand.
The question is: with Dovecot is it ...
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postfix pop-before-smtp isn't parsing the log correctly - need PERL help, I think
We've been using Postfix for a LONG time now and are kind of hooked on it. Now we need to "move into the modern era" and let people SEND email from our SMTP server(s) even when they're outside our ...
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2answers
79 views
POP3 / IMAP server for free mail-service
The company I work for have a free email-service (like Hotmail/Gmail) with about 50.000 users.
The service is currently hosted by a partner, but would like to know what options we have for setting ...
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1answer
28 views
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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1answer
62 views
Migration from Rackspace IMAP to local exchange 2010 server?
as we switch from our rackspace apps e-mail mailboxes to a local exchange 2010 server, i'm looking for a working way to migrate all mailbox from IMAP to exchange mailboxes. i already tried using ...
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1answer
55 views
INBOX, Inbox, and MS Outlook 2007
I have a Cyrus-IMAP server with altnamespace:yes and unixhierarchysep: yes. I want my sent messages to be stored on server, the INBOX.Sent being the most obvious choice. Setting this in Apple Mail was ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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Dovecot Migration and old mails
I'm migrating my mails from an old server to a new one, the configuration is good (mysql virtual accounts & imap only), with dovecot and postfix.
It's already running for other users, I just want ...
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1answer
72 views
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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1answer
165 views
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
168 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
110 views
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 ...
0
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1answer
28 views
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
292 views
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
107 views
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
236 views
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
198 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
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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 ...
0
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2answers
98 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. ...
1
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1answer
65 views
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 ...
2
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2answers
397 views
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 ...
1
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1answer
140 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 ...
0
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0answers
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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 ...
0
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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
99 views
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
140 views
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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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?
