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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Dovecot gz trailer has wrong CRC
Installed hestia with dovecot+exim4+roundcube.
Setted up gzip by adding
zlib_save = gz
zlib_save_level = 6
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Added loading module in imap conf.
Im using thunderbird to read and sent ...
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Dovecot and Exim config to support domain alias
I use Dovecot and Exim in my mail server, and auth them against MariaDB. The server keep mails for multiply mail domain, and it works this way for years.
Now I need to migrate (rename) one of mail ...
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kubernetes - Running dovecot with serveral replicas
I am in the process of setting up an email server through kubernetes. I managed to get postfix up and running and now am trying to setup dovecot. As I am expecting a bit of traffic for dovecot I want ...
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doveadm search query with all Flag -A
I can search old mails for single user:
doveadm search -u '[email protected]' mailbox Trash savedbefore 180d
returns results
f35jv2jh35vj2v5jh2v53…. 31
f35jv2jh35vj2v5jh2v53…. 42
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The same search ...
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Switch MX entry to main domain – Dovecot user issue
I tried switching my MX record from the subdomain mail.mydomain.com to mydomain.com. Updating the Postfix and Dovecot configuration (SSL certs, hostname etc) worked mostly fine. Most e-mail addresses ...
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Relay access denied on VPS (error 554 5.7.1)
I'm trying to figure out how to solve a problem on my VPS, maybe you can help me :D
Long story short: this is the first time I operate on a Bare Metal VPS, and I'm trying to setup the mail server.
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Dovecot/Postfix Auto Adding Account to Thunderbird Fails With Wrong Username
I've configured Postfix and Dovecot with MySQL and I can successfully send and receive email using Thunderbird (or other applications) but I must configure using manual settings and not with the ...
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Postfix rejects all outside mails
My Problem
I tried setting up my own mail server using postfix and dovecot. I used this tutorial to get started. My end goal is to have virtual mailboxes like in this follow-up tutorial. (In case you ...
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MS Outlook 2016 hanging when trying to receive email: imap-login: Debug: SSL error: read failed: Connection reset by peer
I have a postfix/dovecot server. My client uses MS Outlook 2016 via imap to check email. Everything was fine until today when send/receive stopped working and would just hang.
I had client clear ...
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Dovecot mail-crypt webmail can't read encrypted messages
I'm trying to setup Dovecot with mail-crypt plugin with per-user encryption.
I have configured mail-crypt plugin as per official guide here: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/...
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Dovecot error logging in via IMAPS
I have a RedHat 8 server running dovecot and postfix. Postfix is delivering messages
into my maildir folders and the dovecot is configured to make these available to users
via IMAPS. The configuration ...
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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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From "Display Name" not working - Postfix/Dovecot
Working with Dovecot, Postfix and MySQL to send email from my web server (at [email protected]) but what shows up in the inbox is example instead of the display name I put into the email client (...
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How to setup dovecot to accept client certificates signed with a private CA when the server certificate is signed by a public CA
I have been running a postfix/dovecot mail server with no issue for several years using SSL/TLS and Let's Encrypt issued server certificates:
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
ssl = required
# Bundle ...
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After piping Incoming mails to external script, mails are not shown in Inbox in iRedmail
I have been trying to pipe incoming mails to my python script which is just trying to read a mail and look for keywords and call api. But for some reasons my mails are not being delivered to my inbox. ...
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Blocking tor traffic with postfix or fail2ban on mailserver
I am running an Ubuntu 20.04 Lemp server, with postfix/dovecot. I have fail2ban set up so that if 2 unsuccessful loging attempts to my email are made by the same ip address, fail2ban bans the ip's ...
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How to test my postfix+dovecot setup?
I am creating one open source free docker mailserver at
https://github.com/kristijorgji/docker-mailserver
I have already some setup using postfix + dovecot + mysql for virtual users,domains but the ...
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Dovecot stops with No passdbs specified in configuration file error
I'm working with Dovecot and Postfix but recently I tried to use Postfixadmin (following this references). Regardless Postfixadmin works normally, when somebody try to login via Outlook or Thunderbird ...
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Cannot send email using Exim and Dovecot
I've been trying to debug this issue since last week, but I have no clue on what's going on, I have tried to find the answers myself but no luck.
I've been trying to send emails, from [email protected] ...
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Where sieve file must be located if dovecot runs with virtual_mailbox_maps
I have postfix + dovecot install that uses
virtual_mailbox_maps
I want to do sieve for specific users.
where I should put the sieve file, since there are no user directories?
In dovecot configuration ...
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Postfix with Dovecot on Ubuntu 20.04 postfix/mail fatal: no sasl authentication mechanisms
Here's the output of doveconf -n:
# 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 ()
# OS: Linux 5.17.5-x86_64-linode154 x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
# Hostname: mail....
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Dovecot Corrupted record in index cache file
Since today I get this errors in dovecot logs:
Jun 23 19:44:04 home dovecot: imap(s2)<3314><ngfv/yDi3vHAqAEB>: Error: Corrupted record in index cache file /home/s2/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot....
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spamass-milter[1403]: Could not retrieve sendmail macro "i"!. Please add it to confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM for better spamassassin results
I am running an Ubuntu 20.04 based LEMP server on a Raspberry Pi. Installed on it is postfix/dovecot/amavis/spamassassin. When I look at my mail.err logs by running the following command:
cat /var/log/...
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Dovecot + Sieve - match is false when it is clearly true
Dovecot version 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a)
Ok I have a problem with this:
if address :is :domain "From" "test.net" { fileinto "INBOX/Test"; stop; }
And the thing is that this is ...
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Postfix / Dovecot SASL authentication only working on primary domain
I have had a postfix server running flawlessly for three months now. Users log in to the server in their respective mail clients by connecting to mail.mydomain.com (with SSL) and there's never been ...
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Dovecot running but it shows some services command startup failed
My Dovecot 's running, but some services seem not work. Below are the services that not working.
Jun 05 10:05:27 xxx.com systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
Jun 05 10:05:27 xxx.com ...
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Dovecot config file missing
I tried to install Dovecot and found some configuration files missing, which are, 10-auth.conf, 10-mail.conf, 10-master.conf and others. (It shows only 3 files - 90-quota.conf, 90-sieve.conf and 95-...
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How to log in to a postfix+dovecot mail account
After roughly 6 hours of searching i decided to ask help here
I've tryied setting up postfix, everything worked great
Then I've decided to use my emails on thunderbolt, which didn't work
So i figured ...
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Postfix LDAP aliases - user unknown
I have server POSTFIX + DOVECOT with LDAP (ActiveDirectory) authorization.
/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
query_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(mail=%s))
result_filter = %s
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DKIM_INVALID in Spamassassin only for emails sent from other emails in the same server
I have postfix/dovecot running with spamassassin on Centos.
PROBLEM:
The VPS acts as a mail server
Spamassassin edits the email subject and adds [SPAM}
Ms. Outlook on Windows moves those emails to ...
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Dovecot claims ports are in use, netstat disagrees
Attempting to start dovecot gives me this:
Apr 28 13:37:00 master: Error: service(pop3-login): listen(*, 110) failed: Address already in use
Apr 28 13:37:00 master: Error: service(pop3-login): listen(*...
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Failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred [duplicate]
I have a problem that I don't know what's going on. I have an account that in the inbox has more than 100000 emails, I performed the re-indexing of the account, I made the copy of the emails and I ...
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dovecot - Internal error occurred - failed to store into mailbox
I have a problem that I don't know what's going on. I have an account that in the inbox has more than 100000 emails, I performed the re-indexing of the account, I made the copy of the emails and I ...
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Dovecot problems wit SSL Cert: Verify return code: 2 (unable to get issuer certificate)
sry for that, but i am a newcomer at ssl and what do i wrong? i try to change the dovecot imap login to imaps but something goes wrong with the ssl cert check. The ssl cert works for the https apache ...
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TLS authentication issues with Outlook + Dovecot + Postfix + CentOS 8
I hope you are well! I'm new with unmanaged VPS and I'm running a Contabo server with CentOS 8 and AaPanel my problem is with the SMTP connection with Outlook, my server is only accepting SMPT ...
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Can PAM be used with Postfix and Dovecot SASL?
I have set up Postfix to use Dovecot SASL with PAM and Unix users, and Dovecot LDA (LMTP) for local mailbox storage. After some testing, turns out incoming mail gets declined with the reason:
Error: ...
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I can't receive emails with Foxmail, but the email has been received locally
Maillog doesn't show any errors. I see a new email in my /home/mail/domain/www3/new. I just can't read the email by using the client or telnet 110/143. Dovecot info The log doesn't seem to show any ...
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How do I tell Dovecot to use another server for SMTP?
I am a bit lost on mail servers, but I have to install a mail proxy (Proxmox Mail Gateway) in front of the actual mail server (ISPConfig, Roundcube, Dovecot, Postfix).
On receiving emails, it uses the ...
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postfix high availability and scalability
i have successfully set up a postfix , dovecot , mysql container .i can receive and send emails through this container and every thing is going alright.now i am thinking about high availabilty and ...
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Dovecot Authenticating with Active Directory, username with period not going through
I have been struggling the past 2 days. My conf file is like this:
hosts = 192.168.2.2
ldap_version = 3
auth_bind_userdn = %Ln
auth_bind = yes
dn = admin
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Roundcube with Dovecot - disappearing/not present inbox and emails
Versions: Debian 11 5.10.92-1 x86_64 - nginx/1.21.6 - mysql 15.1 10.5.12-MariaDB - PHP 7.4.25 (cli) - dovecot-core/stable,now 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2
I've got my postfix/dovecot configration working for ...
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Dovecot 2.2.36-8 basic setup - mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file
I am trying to set up an IMAP server on my basic Centos 7 mail server. I have postfix MTA set up and delivering mails to the following directory (I have no reason to change this to use the $HOME ...
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unknown domain "pl.d.sender-sib.com" and "gmail.com" under /var/vmail/ on ubuntu server 20.04 running postfix/dovecot/spamassassin/amavis
I am running postfix/dovecot with spamassasin and amavis on Ubuntu server 20.04. I am also using this server as an LEMP Wordpress server. I have configured everything (email wise) according to ...
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Can't send or receive mails when connected to OpenVPN server (on which also the mail server is running)
I'm a bit stuck here at the moment and will appreciate every push towards the right direction to solve this issue.
My two goals are to get an OpenVPN server running on a remote VM (Digital Ocean ...
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How to add user to postfix? [closed]
I created and configured postfix with davecot, everything seems to work:
Dec 20 10:31:32 mailer dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=8470 uid=0 code=kill)
Dec 20 10:33:03 mailer ...
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Dovecot can't connect to ldap server via ldaps
I have an LDAP server that accepts request through ldaps on port 636. I already use it for many of my applications and I want to have my dovecot server use that for authentication as well.
dovecot ...
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permission denied error for letsencrypt certificates
This error is from dovecot where it can't read the certificate because of permissions I tried changing permissions around, presently I have everything on 644 I understand the paths are only links to /...
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SSL certificate - conflicting expiry dates [duplicate]
I am experiencing a weired issue regarding a letsencrypt SSL certificate on my postfix mail server.
According to certbot: "The following certs are not due for renewal yet:
/etc/letsencrypt/live//...
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postfix not listening on port 25, netstat shows nothing on port 25
The output of netstat shows nothing on port 25 I understand dovecot >= 2.3.0 uses submissions protocol I don't know if it's relevant to the postfix smtpd daemon
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Postfix/Dovecot can't send or receive mail
The error in mail.log says "dovecot Failed to establish relay connection in=0 out=22 (state=GREETING)" Using Dovecot 2.3.7.2
# 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole ...
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