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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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Horde webmail not recognizing Dovecot ACLs

I'm trying to set up one mailbox to be shared with another one using steps described here but for some reason I do not see that option in my mailbox (logged as an admin) even I have set ACL as a true in the IMP configuration. From dovecot…
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update dovecot-dev package to v2.3.9.2

I'm trying to install the fts-xapian module for dovecot on an OVH VPS Cloud instance. I currently have Ubuntu 16.04. After compiling fts-xapian I see it is installed in /usr/lib/dovecot/modules, however when enabling the plugin in my dovecot.conf I…
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Exim + Dovecot sending or receiving an email occurs the error: Unknown user

I'm running a mail server with CentOS 7 + Exim 4.92 + Dovecot 2.2.36 and RoundCubeMail as web interface, and have the following problem: when I send to or receive from emails which is not admin@ or info@ or dev@ etc. I have the following…
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Where are stored my emails?

I am newbie. I created mail server thanks to the tutorial Everything works, but I want to make backup of my emails. I made mysql backup, but email are not there. I checked /var/mail/vhosts and /var/spool/postfix and still nothing. I read that…
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Can't connect to mail on newly installed webserver

I just installed a new webserver running Debian Buster using the tutorial found here: https://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-10-buster-apache-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-1/ It replaced an old server also running Debian. The old server didn't…
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Dovecot on Centos7 - not able to start with systemd

Freshly compiled dovecot 2.3.9.3 on Centos 7 for some reason not able to start ● dovecot.service - LSB: Dovecot init script Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot; bad; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu…
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Dovecot IMAP server failure

I'm trying to configure an email server. I'm using squirrelmail, dovecot and postfix. When I try to login on squirrelmail site it gicves me ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. The /var/log/mail.err file says dovecot: imap(userName): Error:…
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Postfix - "Server configuration error."

I'm getting this error in my mail log: Feb 29 21:06:14 mail postfix/smtpd[29464]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-vi1eur05olkn2106.outbound.protection.outlook.com[40.92.90.106]: 451 4.3.5 nicolo@indst.eu: Recipient address rejected: Server…
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Postfix: User with aliases has a mailbox, with filename where all aliases are listed

I have a postfix server running on my CentOS 7 machine. I managed to configure the postfix server to use my LDAP server to retrieve accounts and it works fine, emails are received and saved to a mailbox file. I use Dovecot as an IMAP server. They…
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Dovecot imap auth in large company

I manage email in large company. They have few emails, but lots of employees who read them. Every email is read from 10+ employees. At the moment, we use password auth and if someone left the company, we had to change the password on each…
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Dovecot Unable to access letsencrypt certificates on LEMP server

I am attempting to setup postfix and dovecot on a LEMP server. I am using letsencrypt certificates. I suspect I am having a permissions problem because I cannot access the /etc/letsencrypt/live folder using cd unless I preface it with the sudo su…
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DNS record setup

I recently set up my own mail server using postfix as MTA and dovecot as an imap 'server' (is this the right term?). Now dns records is the last thing to do and I was wondering if I understood this right. Suppose my domain is: mycomp.com. Postfix…
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Why do I get Configured passdbs don't support credentials lookups from dovecot

I am trying to add authentication to Postfix on my Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 server. The first stage of this is to get authentication working with dovecot, apparently. If I run the command: # doveadm -D auth lookup staging Debug: Loading modules from…
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emails received on the server but available through POP3 or IMAP

I set up my server to receive emails and I want to be able to read the emails through POP3. When checking logs, /var/log/mail.log, I can see the email arriving. If I su as the user on the server, I can see the email by typing bob@september:~$…
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Dovecot migration from mbox to mdbox

I am doing a migration from mbox to mdbox on a new disk. From /mnt/mail/$user to /mnt/mail2/$user Current mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/mnt/mail/%u/mail/Inbox The new mail_location = mdbox:/mnt/mail2/$user/mdbox My main userdb is passwd, and i…
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