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An IMAP and POP3 email server. When asking about Dovecot problems, please include relevant maillog lines and output of the following command: `doveconf -n`

Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for *nix systems. It emphasizes security, and is also easy to set up and use, as well as having high performance.

More information about dovecot is available at http://www.dovecot.org/

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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 problems with hotmail accounts, I do not understand…
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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 minutes. It has the wrong password. Problem is we…
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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 shows the following error: Dec 19 11:09:11 server…
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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, so my dovecot.conf has userdb { driver =…
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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 doveadm for this, however running something…
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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", delivering to local ~/Maildirs. Following…
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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 want to remove them. Is it safe to just call "rm…
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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 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 mail to foreign server then everything is fine.…
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Why use Dovecot AND Postfix/Sendmail?

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 Agents, with Dovecot having a 'secondary' function…
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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. I tried to setup two users "info" and "support" 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 external email client. As soon as I connect, I…
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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 site I designed it doesn't work. Here is an output…
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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 which I was able to confirm using SSLLabs.com. But…
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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 started flagging insecure emails, all mail sent from my…
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