Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.
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courier-imap w mysql : share a folder between 2 virtual users on debian
I have a working courier-imap server on my Debian Etch private server ; users are virtual, authentificatin goes through mysql. It's been working good for years.
I would like to share an imap folder ...
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How to configure dovecot as gmail imap proxy
I want to configure dovecot as gmail imap proxy. If any system in my network
wants to connect to imap.gmail.com,993 it has to go through the dovecot proxy.
Is it possible to setup such environment ...
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Migrating Outlook PSTs -> Maildir via IMAP
Our small shop has been on Exchange since forever (currently on 2003). However, we use a 3rd party managed Exchange provider and set tight limits on how much server-side storage we allow each user. ...
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how can i run sieve on a cyrus-imap folder?
I have a sieve script which I would like to run on a folder in my cyrus imap setup.
The script is already working fine processing newly incoming mail, but I have to run it on the old mail archive, too....
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Mail server: can't connect via POP/IMAP
I've followed this guide on setting up a mail server on my dedicated server. I've been able to send mails from the php application I'm using and the linux commandline (using telnet, php, etc).
The ...
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maildir in Windows for IMAP
I'm interested in accessing my IMAP accounts offline. I found that maildirs are a simple way to make it work. I found that [offlineimap] takes care of almost everything in making the IMAP->maildir ...
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E-mail for virtual team?
A client of mine has a little consulting company has five people, who usually work remotely.
They're used to using Outlook, but using POP isn't a good option, as e-mails end up being scattered on the ...
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Multiple Users accessing IMAP mailboxes
I have what I think an unusual setup, I have a few mailboxes setup, orders, info and qa. These mailboxes are setup to allow IMAP, I then have at least 4 users having constant Outlook access to these ...
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Exchange IMAP4 connector - Error Event ID 2006
A couple of users in my organisation use IMAP4 to connect to Exchange 2007 (Update rollup 9 applied) because they prefer Thunderbird / Postbox clients. One of the users is generating errors in the ...
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migrating email public folders from cyrus imap to exchange 2010
I'm trying to find out the best way of migrating a public folder structure from cyrus imap to exchange 2010.
We have about 300Gb of emails in a public folder structure on a cyrus-imap server, that we ...
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Back up IMAP Server
If I move to a hosted IMAP mail server solution (e.g. Google Apps) is there a way to have an on-site back up of the mail server that can be used as a local mail archive and backup solution? What ...
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configuring linux console email client to check attachments
I need to configure a IMAP4 capable (console-based) email client to
- check and edit the name of an attachment ("contains umlauts?" -> change character ä to ae)
- delete emails that don't fit certain ...
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Google Mail Like IMAP (Web) Application
I'm looking for an IMAP web frontend (or client application) that has the features and speed of Google Mail minus the ads and privacy concerns. Most important are simple user interface, fast search ...
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Postfix config with a single catch-all user
Here is a very simple question that I wasn't able to find an easy answer for being entirely new to postfix:
I want all mail coming in from SMTP (or through local delivery for that matter) to drop in ...
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Google Apps mail "Too many simultaneous connections" error
I'm experiencing the problem described here, in Outlook 2007 with Google Apps IMAP:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=97150&topic=12816
The thing is, I have no idea how the ...
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How can I create a new user account with Cyrus IMAP?
I'm trying to setup postfix with imap on a vserver. Now, I'm trying to create the first user/mailbox. The vserver runs Debian. I tried to login to the Cyrus administration console with cyradm, but to ...
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IMAP Account Migration/Synchronisation [closed]
I was wondering if anyone knew of any easy way to synchronise and then migrate an IMAP account between two hosting accounts? I have SSH access but within jailshell (cpanel/WHM access also), but no ...
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Triggering a server action on a specific event
I would like to launch a specific command [1] on a mail server whenever a message is moved from one folder into another folder.
For example, a Thunderbird user moves a message from folder A to Folder ...
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Exchange 2003 automatically converts text/plain emails to text/html for IMAP retrieval
When accessing an Exchange 2003 server via IMAP, emails that were sent as text/plain (and ones that had no MIME encoding specified at all) get automatically converted to multipart/alternative with the ...
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Exchange 2003 with Blackberry Enterprise Server causes IMAP messages to disappear and reappear
I'm not 100% sure that this is a problem caused by BES, but it showed up soon after my email account was tied to a Blackberry, so this is my first guess.
I get my email from an Exchange server, but I ...
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Courier-imap results in chmod error when started
I'm using CentOS5 and cannot start IMAP.
-bash-3.1# service courier-imap start
Starting Courier-Imap: chmod: cannot access `run': No such file or directory
I'm not entirely sure what that error is ...
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How Do I Debug An IMAP Problem?
I am setting up an email server with Postfix and Dovecot. Remote email clients can read email, but cannot reply to it or send new messages. (Email clients local to the server receive and send email ...
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Communication between famd and slapd hanging
My users are having problems with their IMAP mailboxes. The IMAP processes are hanging and timing out. When they timeout, the users might see an empty email box.
But the real problem appears to be ...
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Monitoring services for email servers
Does anyone have experience of hosted services for monitoring the status of email servers?
I host my own email on a Linux VPS. If either my SMTP or IMAP servers stop responding to requests, I want ...
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getting Thunderbird rescan imap folder
Since I got an external program (imapfilter) modifying my imap folder, thunderbird keeps loosing track of new messages. Messages are moved upon arrival in sub-folders, making Thunderbird unable keep ...
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How do I add the sort extension to an IMAP server?
if we do own a Mail server supporting, how is it possible to add a sort extension to it?
Also how is it possible for a client using java mail to check if the server does indeed support the Sort ...
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How to upload an mbox file to an IMAP server
I decided to play with Mutt, and after quitting discovered that it had moved all the mails from my IMAP server to a local mbox file. I would like to put those mails back in the IMAP server. Is there ...
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What's the difference between POP3 and IMAP for e-mail?
How does IMAP differ from POP3 and what are the pros/cons of each and why choose one over another?
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View old Inbox messages in (OS X) Mail.app via Exchange IMAP?
We're thinking of migrating our Mac users away from Entourage 2008 and instead using Mail.app (built into OS X Snow Leopard).
We're running SBS 2003 so it's Exchange 2003 for now.
When I setup an "...
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Outlook IMAP Sent messages in wrong folder
I have outlook 2003 installed on a system that has an IMAP account an a legacy PST / POP 3 account. For some reason when I send an email using the IMAP account the mail appears in the sent items ...
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Tutorial: from registered domain to running mail server on ADSL connection?
Does anyone know of a tutorial that takes me from having registered a domain name (with eNom through Google) to a running IMAP mail server (preferably based on Ubuntu) connected to the internet via a ...
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Fast imap server for larger folders
I'm looking for an imap server that is fast with larger folders. Say 20'000-100'000 emails per folder.
Currently I'm using dovecot, and opening a folder can take 10 seconds, and the HD light on the ...
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PHP failing to connect to GMail via IMAP [Edited!!]
I have some php code that I'm trying to use to connect to gmail using imap. Here's the code:
$hostname = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX';
$tmp_username = 'username';
$...
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Duplicate forwarded messages in Blackberry when using BIS
Our Setup
External email arrives at a Postfix server, is scanned, and then forwarded via settings in transport (using the RELAY:[{ip-address}] for a given address) to an Exchange 2007 server. Some ...
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Fetchmail Won't Put Messages into Cyrus. Postfix LMTP Problem?
I'm trying to get fetchmail to suck down messages from a POP3 server, and insert them into Cyrus for local IMAP delivery.
Cyrus works fine by itself, and I can connect to it with ThunderBird on a ...
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imapfilter: how to capture part of the subject in a variable
I get some mails arriving (on an IMAP server) with subject like:
[1270503] apple
[1272481] bottle
[172481] wine
[43172481] grapes
I need these letters to be moved in INBOX.CSR.number where number is ...
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Outlook 2003 archive on a network share?
I want to setup an Outlook 2003 email-folder in a domain based network on a share (Samba). This should be part of an IMAP account to store downloaded email in a way to make it accessible form several ...
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How to set up an e-mail account across multiple users using IMAP
I've decided that we desperatly need to switch from POP3 to IMAP when handling our main business email account which several people use. This is your typical [email protected] account which receives ...
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Is there a way to filter mails in remote IMAP account?
Situation:
mail server with IMAP only access.
Problem:
I want to be able to filter mails (put some mails to various folders, mark them as read and so on).
Most new email clients have this ability, ...
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Faster IMAP searching for Courier IMAP server on Linux
I am looking for tips on improving IMAP search performance using Courier IMAP. The current version is 4.2.1. Unlike in the question "Fast search for IMAP?", I'm specifically looking for server side ...
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How do I setup a SSL mail server?
For a beginner, can anyone recommend a good method of setting up a encrypted IMAP server (on port 993) or at least TLS POP3 email ? There are plenty of examples of opportunistic client side email ...
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Push email to a apache/php server
We've built a web service that needs to check constantly for email messages.
Basically, an user sends us an email, and the server should make actions based on that email.
We could use a crontab PHP ...
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Starting pop3 and imap services on Mac OS X
I'm running Mac OS X (Leopard) and I've just activated Postix, as well as installed UW imapd (a server capable of handling both IMAP and POP3 traffic).
The issue I'm having is that I don't know what ...
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 - Strange IMAP folder behaviour
When copying a message to a subfolder in "Public Folders" on an Exchange server, it seems to change the folder context to the destination folder.
Is there any way to turn off this behaviour?
Example:...
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Weird load issues running Courier IMAP inside Linode VPS
So... I see some very weird load issues on our e-mail server. It starts spiking around 8-9am (coincidentally that's when people start working), but it goes down around 11am or so. CPU usage remains ...
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Fast search for IMAP?
I have an IMAP account with over 10 years' worth of emails in it, and I'd like to be able to search it quickly from my Windows machine. I'm looking for something that will give me an indexed search ...
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How are Postfix & Cyrus-IMAP effected when upgrading Fedora?
Historically, I've always upgraded my hardware and software together. In short, since I've always had new hardware I've always installed the latest distribution version from scratch. This time, ...
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Is there a way to access Exchange accounts using IMAP - without changes to the Exchange server?
I know that you can configure Exchange to allow connections using IMAP and POP.
But is there a way to let IMAP clients access an Exchange mail box, without changing any settings on the target ...
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Serve IMAP Account as POP
I have ran into this a few times:
I get a new email address that can only be accessed by IMAP or through a web browser. I want to read mail from all of my other accounts through my gmail account.
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Courier-IMAP + Thunderbird (+ Roundcube) subscription woes
So we have a mail system built on postfix-courier-saslauthd with unix users and maildirs and TONS of shared folders. Both T'bird (2.0.0.21) and Roundcube exhibits weird symptoms with subscriptions.
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