Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.
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Disable 2FA on Microsoft 365
My organisation uses Microsoft365 for Outlook email.
Microsoft disabled basic authentication on October 2022, although there was an extension given to some organisations, including ours, to 25th ...
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imapfilter - does a mailbox exist
Sorry bit of a imapfilter 101 I'm afraid ... I'm trying to do something quite simple. I seems to be making heavy weather of it, feels like there's a simple solution.
I want to process inbox into new ...
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Use HTTPS and IMAP services on the same port
Is there any multiplexer that allows the use of both HTTPS and IMAP on port 993 like what SSLH does for SSH and HTTPS & etc.?
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How to assign certificate to IMAP/S and SMTP/S in Exchange 2016?
Please advise me because I pull all my hair out.
I have Exchange 2016 and I want to assign one officially signed-off certificate to the IMAP/S port 993/tcp and SMTP/S port 465/tcp .
I went through ...
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How to disable an IMAP capability in Dovecot?
For testing purposes, I want to disable specific capabilities in a Dovecot IMAP Server. In the documentation, I only find
imap_capability
Default: <empty>
Values: String
Override the IMAP ...
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How to enable IMAP PHP extension on AWS EC2 instance Amazon Linux 2023?
This question is related with the following one: How to enable IMAP php extension on aws EC2 instance but they are completely different.
I use PHP 8.1 and Amazon Linux 2023, this version does not have ...
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Can not setup postfix/dovecot with email clients
Having problems with configure postfix/dovecot with email clients such as outlook and thunderbird.
Using telnet and openssl I have tested both smtp and imap through ports 587 and 993.
Sent mails are ...
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Configuring cyrus to use oauth2 via keycloak with ldap backend?
We are using cyrus (and exim) as a long-running mail server. The requirement to store passwords in email programs seems to be a security risk to me. I would like to move auth behind something like ...
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NGINX Mail proxy IMAP Auth Errors
I need some help getting NGINX to perform IMAP authentication as a reverse proxy into Postfix Mail server on-prem. I am seeing the tracking on my POSTFIX mail server, but IMAP continues to fail. seems ...
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Dovecot fails to fetch messages due to cache size issues
I migrated maildir users from an old courier imap install to dovecot on docker alpine:latest. Initially everything seemed great, however, a problem seems to have crept in. Some messages will fail to ...
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Not able to Fetch email in otrs
I am trying to setup a otrs ticketing tool , the tool needs to fetch email and generate ticket, when I am setting that with my google mail account its working however when I am using my professional ...
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how to setup the folder separator a "/ " instead of a dot "." in imap maildir postfix and dovecot
The Question is already in the title.
I want to setup dovecot and postfix with maildir , but I do not want the dot "." as folder separator. I like to use a folder system like "/"
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SASL Authentication - Why is it taking so long to login to the authentication server?
I can't describe it properly, but I have a Thunderbird mail client, I use it to receive and send mail through a user I created and an available domain. I use IMAP and POP3 services there, I also have ...
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Dovecot auth-worker logs fails but log in works
Everytime a log in occurs I get three log lines:
Mar 19 15:29:05 auth-worker(6379): Info: pam([email protected],124.1.1.1,<AL/fkjf3yr98xTrl>): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (...
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Why does IMAP specify a UID as well as UIDValidity
What is the design reason for uniquely identifying mail on a folder by folder basis rather than on a server wide basis?
IMAP specifies that mail is uniquely identified by a folder name, a UIDValidity (...
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Dovecot + imap_sieve learning spam
Have dovecot+sieve. It's most often recommended that users train spamassassin/rspamd in the following way:
A Spam folder is created in each mailbox (Junk type)
Further, through the imap_sieve plugin, ...
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Client is sending SMTP emails but they are not recorded in the "Sent" folder in webclients
I have been using instantly.ai to send emails. I connected IONOS.ca and JustHost.com mailboxes to instantly and it works fine (warmup, receiving and sending [yes other emails receive the emails sent, ...
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Send email to different port / redirecting port
I have an email server (Dovecot) and I want to emails be sent from other servers to a different IMAP port, because I can't use the ports 465 and 993
If someone could help me doing this, I would ...
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Additional mail check by a custom script on Exchange Server
Customer would like to check e-mail content (including attachment parsing) from a list of accounts and, in case of some detected trigger words, to send a copy of the mail to a person who has to be ...
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Dovecot expunge all emails marked as deleted regardless of folder
I would have thought that this would be a FAQ but I haven't found a useful answer.
How do I expunge all email messages deleted using the email client regardless of which folder it's in?
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Webclient for mbox files
I have 20 OVH mail accounts. Whit imapbackup i create mbox file for each my account on a local server. To read the files i need to download the folder then import to Thunderbird. Is there a easy way ...
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'FETCH' command with a 'BAD' response: Error in IMAP command FETCH: Invalid messageset (0.001 + 0.000 secs). on DoveCot IMAP Server
I'm hosting my webserver using postfix and dovecot. it works fine when i try to connect using my iphone and my macbook.
I need to connect an external WebbApplication to get all E-Mails over IMAP ...
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How to subscribe to Office 365 IMAP folders
since about the beginning of November, I have troubles in using mail clients to access Office 365 mailboxes via IMAP. Specifically, it has become impossible to subscribe to IMAP folders, so that the ...
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How best to deal with large dovecot inboxes?
I have a small number of mail users (abut 100) and some have comparatively large (10Gb+) mail boxes. I'm running Ubuntu using postfix and dovecot Maildir format.
I could just keep adding storage, but ...
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Migration plan for hosted e-mail
I am considering migrating my e-mail from one hosted provider to another; specifically to Proton Mail, but I don’t think that matters. My trepidation comes from my personal domain and the potential ...
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Android application compatible with IMAP search without using local index?
I use an email account of several dozens of Giga, on computer and Smartphone.
However, most applications use a local index to speed up the search of emails (this is the case of Outlook and Thunderbird ...
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Can I host some mail addresses in Microsoft 365 and keep the others in IMAP host?
I manage a company with 200 users, all of them having IMAP mail in a cloud based hosting (not on premise); now I want to migrate some of those users on Microsoft 365, keeping the most of them on IMAP; ...
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Postfix: dedicated user to send emails
My current Postfix setup allows to send emails only with the local users (like, if I logged as xyz then email will be sent as [email protected]). I have Courier IMAP server, with the same user xyz but ...
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Does email client connect to IMAP/SMTP server by resolving IP through A record or MX record?
With my limited understanding, I understand when an SMTP server sending email out, it resolves the MX record to get to the destination email server.
But what about when you setup an email account on ...
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How to configure Exim4 to relay emails from authenticated users in various locations
I have a Debian cloud server with Exim4 running and serving emails with DMARC, SPF, and DKIM properly set up. I can ssh into the server and send and receive encrypted emails successfully. Dovecot is ...
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How to permit only certain e-mail clients for IMAP access
My company is giving out new Android smartphones to employees, and they should be able to manage their e-mail on them. Currently, only access via webmail is enabled, but the mobile webmail client (...
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Bizarre intermittent, but long lasting failure to connect to just one server
I have a bizarre connection issue with just one server that I have no idea how to diagnose. Basically I'm setting up a self-hosted email service using iRedMail and everything works fine for a while ...
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How to create failregex to block imap-logins fail2ban
Could someone help me with creating correct fail2ban filter.
Bad ip addresses knocking port 993
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf doesn't catch such log
I found something like this, but i get errors ...
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Is it possible to trigger a shell script on incoming emails, can it be done without services like dovecot, postix, etc? [closed]
This question more is for learning purpose.
I'm exploring ways to develop a small email server (in + out).
I have a domain that points to my server as well as mx records and all that stuff...
I also ...
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manual certificate authentication for IMAPS
I'm running an IMAPS service and users are authenticated with an X.509 certificate.
It works fine using Thunderbird. But how I can connect to the IMAPS service manually using openssl? I use the same ...
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Share Postfix IMAP Calenders
We are currently running a dovecot mailserver(maildir) and postfix. - Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Our new COO wants to sync his contacts and calendar with outlook(MAC) and iOS(iPhone) using our ...
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Exchange 2019 - IMAP Sync Failure
I have just deployed a new instance of Exchange 2019. Active Sync works fine (outlook and owa) and mail is processed ingress/egress fine. After enabling the IMAP services and associating the self ...
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MDA broken pipe with fetchmail / dovecot
I have set up a home mail server with dovecot to download and archive email from multiple webmail accounts via IMAP. The goal is to do this automatically every week with a cron job.
I'm not sure if I ...
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does SSL/TLS STARTLS full encrypt connexion for POP and IMAP
I am configuring POP and IMAP accounts in thunderbird mail client.
Here are 2 options:
Security:
None
SSL/TLS
STARTLS
Authentication method:
Normal password
Encrypted password
Kerberos / GSSAPI
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Fetchmail does not use the indicated protocol
I'm trying to setup fetchmail for download some mail from gmail using pop3. The problem, as you can see, is that fetchmail instead of use the pop protocol will use imap.
For being sure to not have ...
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Clarification on the configuration of a mail server
I would like to start by saying that I have not seen any other forums or posts that clearly explain this thing. If there are, my poor English skills probably didn't make me understand the solution ...
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How do I create separate mailbox configurations per virtual user with Dovecot?
Let's say I have two virtual users: [email protected] and [email protected].
I want the mailboxes for bugs to be configured like this...:
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
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mailbox Drafts {
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IMAP and SMTP Still use Self Signed SSL even I have issued a Mail Server SSL in Cyberpanel
I using cyberpanel on CentOS 7 and I setup SSL for my postfix and dovecot. But I still got "SSL Invalid" caused the self-signed SSL even I have configure SSL using Lets Encrypt.
This is /etc/...
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How to proxy IMAP/POP3 connection to appropriate backend mail server by domain
I have system with multiple email server (exchange, zimbra) for multiple domain. So when users of domain A want connect to server for getting email they have to use IP of server A (Ex: 192.168.10.253),...
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How to stop OS/daemon information leakage in dovecot (server_tokens)?
How do I stop dovecot from telling its clients what flavour of linux I'm running and that it's a dovecot imap server?
If I connect to my smtp server, I see the following snippet
user@host:~$ openssl ...
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Access POP3 content from other computer
I have a tough mission, that I have no idea how to accompish it.
In our company, all the e-mail accounts are configured as IMAP accounts, therefore we can access the e-mail from wherever. However, ...
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Incoming external email appeared in Postfix log, but not in mailbox
I setup Postfix + Dovecot (with IMAP) for my Ubuntu 16.04 email server. I sent an email from Gmail to my domain, I can see the postfix log "reacts" with the incoming email, but the incoming ...
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Postfix dovecot unable to authenticate
I use to work with postfix/sasl/courrier-auth on Gentoo for years. I just migrated to Debian 10 postfix/dovecot. I'm unable to make it work : Send mail ok, TLS ok. But unable to authenticate (SMTP 587,...
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dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 2 attempts in 2 secs) - usually working - perhaps timeout issue? Debug options?
I have a mail server with a few dozen IMAP accounts. The configuration is correct for each account, every one of them tests OK.
When a client from a particular, very slow Internet connection attempts ...
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Are SMTPS and IMAPS ports really deprecated?
I've read that STARTTLS command was added and intended to deprecate the SSL ports. But even major mail servers like google still use SSL ports and even don't allow us to use classic ports with ...