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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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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 INBOX folder which I don't want to filter…
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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 which is listed in dovecot.passwd file. The file uses…
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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 is going on? HELP!
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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 domains at the same server,…
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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: example.com Postfix Dovecot Server [root@skilleddomain ~]#…
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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 22:35:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[5278]: warning: SASL:…
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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 server using Outlook 2013 (it connects just fine on…
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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 I would like to use only secure connections,…
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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 by design only applied to incoming messages.…
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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 this postfix, dovecot, mysql, spamassasin…
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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 bad for people not willing to pay big bucks to…
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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 dn =…
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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 with the iPhone email client or any other mobile…
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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: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth…
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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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