Questions tagged [dovecot]
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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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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SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 - Find the username
First let me state that the mail server is working fine and users can connect and send email.
Basically there is a local web script connecting into the mail server trying to send mail every few ...
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Dovecot user lookup fails when using username@domain format
I have Dovecot v2.0.11 installed on a FreeBSD server and the user lookups for incoming email addresses are failing, but lookups for system users is successful.
Dovecot is setup to use system users, ...
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Can't receive mails from Gmail
A few days ago Gmail suddenly decided to stop sending mails to my mailserver.
I am using Postfix and Dovecot with an paid SSL Certificate running on Debian 7 with everything updated.
My mail.log ...
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Postfix → Dovecot LMTP: User does not exist: uid@domain
I am trying to have Postfix deliver local mails via Dovecot's LMTP (among other things to replace procmail with sieve). Up to now, I've been using mailbox_command = procmail - a "$EXTENSION", ...
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doveadm: Delete messages older than date
I've a situation where some users keep very old messages (+5 years) on their mailboxes that are just a waste of space and due to safety reasons should also be deleted.
I find out that I could use ...
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is it safe to remove mails on imap server with "rm"?
I use dovecot IMAP server and want to delete big unneeded mails:
cd /var/spool/foouser; du -a | sort -rn > /var/tmp/du-mail-foouser.log
Now I see big mails at the top and after looking at them I ...
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Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
I've setup postfix, dovecot and roundcube. receiving and sending email via roundcube is working as well as receiving emails via imap with another email client.
But I'm not able to send emails with an ...
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Set up certs for multiple domains in Postfix and Dovecot
I don't know how to set up main.conf postfix config file and 10-ssl.conf dovecot config files in order to make my mail server capable to handle with multiple certificates. Let me explain... I have two ...
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How do I setup a SENT and TRASH folder with Dovecot?
The IMAP mailbox that Dovecot sets up has no SENT folder or TRASH folder. How do I set those up? Is there a way to place them outside of the INBOX hiearchy? I want to make sure that these folders work ...
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Configure roundcube login by hostname
I recently installed Roundcube on my Centos6/postfix/dovecot server.
Default install works great but I am trying to configure some options that I cannot seem to figure out.
My end result would be a ...
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How do I change Dovecot virtual user passwords?
I used one web based control panel to create some virtual users for Dovecot. That control panel no longer works so I need to do this manually.
I need to reset the password for one (virtual) user ...
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Failed SPF for email imported to Gmail because of client IP instead of server's in message when sent through SMTP from one local box to another
We have a linux (Debian) VPS with domain (let's say example.com with MX mail.example.com) that has SPF set up. There is dovecot+exim running. There is also Direct Admin on top of that.
When I send a ...
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invoke filtering manually in dovecot+sieve
I've configured dovecot with a sieve filtering (also I've configured roundcube, but this does not matter I think).
It's working fine, I've set up some filters. But now I've got a huge unfiltered ...
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Cannot send email to info@ or support@
I am trying to send email from my gmail account to a couple user accounts I have on my new Centos server. The email is setup correctly and I can send receive from accounts ok except info and support.
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Why use Dovecot AND Postfix/Sendmail? [closed]
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here..... but why do most linux server distros come with both Dovecot AND Postfix (or sendmail)? As far as I'm aware all three of them are Mail Transfer ...
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Gmail flagging Dovecot email as insecure
I thought I successfully secured my Postfix/Dovecot email server. I have a signed certificate from LetsEncrypt, which is valid for my domain.
Sending & receiving works fine, but since Gmail ...
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run sieve on maildir
For my mailserver I have a dovecot, postfix and sieve setup.
I have several hundred mails in my maildir and have recently created some sieve rules for sorting them. Unfortunatelly the sieve rules are ...
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Postfix and Dovecot opened ports
Doing a nmap on my server, I get this:
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
143/tcp open imap
465/tcp open smtps
587/tcp open submission
993/tcp open imaps
995/tcp open pop3s
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Dovecot SMTPD Sasl auth error: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I've googled this error and nothing I've read/tried works - anyone know what it is
Error log:
Feb 23 22:35:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[5278]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Feb 23 22:...
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Dovecot, getting error: Mail access for users with UID 222 not permitted
When I attempt to login to my Dovecot IMAP server I get this error:
dovecot: imap(ec2-user): Error: user *theuser*: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access for users with UID 222 not permitted
What ...
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Postfix Mail server rejecting sending mail from wordpress site
I have recently setup a mail server on linode using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. I can send and receive mails from a mail client (Outlook) but any time I try to send mail with a user from a wordpress ...
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Do Postfix and Dovecot support OCSP stapling?
Since I would like to set the "must staple" attribute in my SSL certificates, I was doing some research to find out if all of my services support OCSP stapling. So far I found out, that Apache does ...
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Dovecot creates folder, Postfix expects file
I have tried configuring a Postfix/Dovecot combo with virtual users using this guide.
My server is running Postfix 2.6.6 and Dovecot 2.0.9 on CentOS 6.5.
The problem is that when I connect to the ...
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Spamassassin, Dovecot and Postfix: Move spam to folder
I am trying to move Spam detected by spamassassin automatically to the Junk folder on Debian Jessie.
I installed Spamassassin and edited the configs:
local.cf (spamassassin folder)
rewrite_header ...
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Postfix Multi Domain Email Going to Spam
I have read over the other post from other users on this site about this topic.
I think I see my problem but cannot figure out where to change it.
My configuration:
RDNS for 107.170.172.XXX: ...
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Dovecot: missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail)
I can't figure out what I am missing. I'm setting up a new mail server and had this erorre every time I receive an email.
The user is inside the group mail
mail:x:8:dovecot,user.name
The perms ...
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postfix: relay access denied. How to fix it?
I've been fiddling with main.cf file for a long time but still couldn't find why. I've set up an email server with this tutorial Email with Postfix, Dovecot and MariaDB on CentOS 7
This is the part ...
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How to check if dovecot's configuration is valid? (config file syntax)
Is there a command that I can issue that will tell me if the current set of config files for dovecot are valid or if there's an issue?
I just made a change to my dovecot config files. Before ...
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Dovecot cant connect to imaps 993
I am trying to set up a mail server in digitalocean VPS.
The problem is that i cant telnet to 993 although firewall is inactive and dovecot is listening. Please tell me where i do wrong.
I followed ...
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Alternative to postfix with SNI certificates + Dovecot compatibility
As we're aware postfix doesn't support SNI (Server Name Indication), which means that if you'd define a certificate, it will be used for all domain names that you have on that server, which could be ...
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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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Migrating from any IMAP/POP3 server to Dovecot
I am trying to synchronize two mailboxes which reside in different servers. This is due to a migration process. The old server is a courier server and needs to be accessed via IMAP, whereas the new ...
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How can I migrate Dovecot from one server to another?
I have a Dovecot installation on a Fedora 12 "server" at home and I want to move all my mailboxes onto a virtual CentOS 5 server.
How can I do this? Which files to I have to copy? Is it even enough ...
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Postfix + Dovecot: Create send-only email account
I've got a nice little mail server setup (running Ubuntu Server 16.04) that works a treat. It uses postfix as SMTP, which uses dovecot (IMAP) as an authentication source for virtual mailbox users.
It'...
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How to correct Dovecot user login to use full domain email in this format "[email protected]" [duplicate]
I have configured dovecot and postfix...Email server works fine.. (Webmail and outlook both works..)
I have created users using unix command ..
usreadd -s /sbin/nologin myuser
But i have a concern, ...
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How to make dovecot password independent of server password?
I'm using postfix and dovecot.
I want to send and receive email from root.
Until I use SSL/TLS certificate, I am using an unencrypted connection.
Since my email password is the same as my ssh ...
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Setting up mail accounts without real Linux users
I've setup Postfix and Dovecot on my Ubuntu Server. My aim is to create 27 mail accounts that can receive and send mail to everywhere. I've got emails to not show up as spam in Gmail, Yahoo and ...
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Postfix deny relay for some virtual users
I'm using Postfix as MTA and relay. Users that wish to send e-mail from a remote system authenticates and Postfix hands that to Dovecot, and this works well. But how can I limit which users can use ...
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Postfix/Dovecot - Multiple Domains and Multiple Linux Accounts
I have been trying to setup a new mail server to migrate from my VPS, as my host has decided to close its doors. The old server was running Exim/Courier (nearly a decade old at this point,) and I'm ...
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What options exist for changing usernames transparently in Webmail?
Currently, we have a fully working POP/IMAP/Webmail system (using Dovecot and Roundcube) that is a gleaming tower of perfection in its intended design. We have thousands of customers who belong to a "...
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Monit failing to connect to Dovecot over SSL IMAP
I run Monit to keep check on processes on a Debian server. It's working as normal for all other services (Apache SSL, Postfix, SSH etc.) but Monit's checks on Dovecot are failing repeatedly. I think ...
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Dovecot Certificate Authentication
After implementing certificate authentication on Nginx web server, I would like to do the same on Dovecot mail server. The idea is to create your own CA and manage certificates (both issuing and ...
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Dovecot error: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set
I've been trying to get Postfix and Dovecot set up for days and I think I have resolved all problems except for one that just came up. When I try to restart Dovecot I get the following error message:
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Force Dovecot not to log connect/disconnect messages
My /var/log/mail.log gets constantly flooded with Dovecot connect/disconnect messages like this:
Mar 29 18:15:48 summit dovecot: IMAP([email protected]): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=63/2126
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Postfix warning: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth failed: No such file or directory
I have searched, and failed to find an answer and I am out of ideas. I just do not know enough about postfix and dovecot to parse the configs or understand what may be causing this error.
warning: ...
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What is causing SSL-"shutdown while in init" error on dovecot?
At one of my systems I can see from time to time error messages like:
TLS: SSL_read() failed: error:140E0197:SSL routines:SSL_shutdown:shutdown while in init
What might causes these errors?
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Is there a way to pause mail delivery in Postfix (accumulate in queue)?
When using combination of Postfix/Dovecot, is there a way to tell smtp server (Postfix) not to store mails on disk but hold/add them to queue until "maintenance finished"?
Useful for disk upgrades, ...
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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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dovecot-lmtp does not exist
I followed this guide on linode to setup dovecot and postfix mail server on my Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS . The setup requires socket /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp to act as virtual transport. ...
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