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Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind

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Mail is not received

I have a configured a mail server in my system, After configuring I am facing a problem that I can send a mail but I can't view the mail sent from external or local. Test case : Sending mail to ...
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How to set up a mail server which I can then use with email clients?

I'm trying to set up a mail server on my Ubuntu 12.04 box from Linode. The box currently runs Apache, MySQL and PHP and runs a few of my websites, and I want to set up an email account like myname@...
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fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms - Postfix + Dovecot

I am trying to configure a simple email server that uses dovecot for the auth. I am inexperienced with the email procedures and I can't figure out what the problem is here: postfix/smtpd[26148]: ...
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Postfix relay access denied, NOQUEUE: reject

In trying to set up Postfix to use dovecot for SASL (using mysql for virtual_*) I am unable to send email, either through telnet or Outlook, to a domain other than the one that is on the server. I am ...
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Installing and maintaining email server

Until now, I've been using managed shared hosting, but recently I've been seriously considering moving everything to a VPS, such as Linode. The one thing that has me really hesitating is that I must ...
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Postfix and dovecot unable to receive or send mails

I'm trying to setup smtp server for my website on my Ubuntu server, I have successfully installed postfix and dovecot and configured them (at least how I understood from tutorials), but I have ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04: ZFS vs btrfs, each with compression for heavy use email server - which has a lower memory and CPU footprint?

I'm deliberating a situation where I need to use Ubuntu 22.04 for a rather heavy use email server with "infinite" storage for users via Dovecot + maildir. A lot of the users live in the era ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade error

I have Ubuntu 20.04 root on zfs. I attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04. The upgrade mostly completed then aborted due to some issue with dovecot. I was able to reboot root@mail:/# lsb_release -a No ...
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Ubuntu Server - Looking for software to take commands through email an execute them

I am looking for preferably Opensource software for Ubuntu Mail Server . Requirement from software would be: Listening for incoming emails on a [email protected] . In case the incoming email ...
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Best way to upgrade a mail server

I have a 16.04 based mail server that is based on fetchmail (no direct inbound mail), dovecot and procmail (to sort the mail) and it has server me well for a number of years. I decided today to try ...
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Ubuntu, postfix, dovecot mail server cannot configure with Outlook or Thunderbird mail client

I have successfully configured my email server with digital-ocean ubuntu 18.04 LEMP droplet and everything work fine so far. I can send & receive email and also successfully configured with round-...
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MULTIPLE DOMAIN ON A MAIL SERVER AND WEBMAIL

I have a mail server on ubuntu 16.04 with postfix and dovecot and in the same server run roundcube webmail. I access a roundcube webmail with https://webmail.domain1.com (ssl). I need multiple ...
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Dovecot IMAP works only in localhost

I can connect to imap and to pop3 in local but remotly it's impossible. I've open ports in ufw but still not working. If I make an nmap remotly ports are closed: Host is up (0.040s latency). Not ...
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Dovecot not starting

I've been trying to tackle this for a while now and I'm completely stumped. I believe I have all of my settings correct, however, when I try to run /etc/init.d/dovecot start command I get this message:...
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IMAP: Error: Permission deny missing +w perm?

I'm trying to create a local mail server with postfix, apache2, dovecot and squirrelmail. but i'm got this error when I login squirrelmail in browser. Please help me.
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postfix , dovecot imap/pop3

I have a mail server, postfix and dovecot. I started both as a service: : ~ # /etc/init.d/postfix Start [Ok] Starting postfix (via systemctl): postfix.service. : ~ # /etc/init.d/dovecot Start [Ok] ...
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dovecot-core purge/reinstall error

Recently dovecot was shown to need updating. No problem... Except that it barks this error out: /usr/bin/ucfr: line 323: [: : integer expression expected and collapses on itself. So I think for a ...
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Dovecot error - not finding /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb

I've been trying to set up a Ubuntu postfix/mysql/dovecot mail server and have run into an issue: from mail.log: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No such file ...
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mail not sending or receiving ?

I configured a mail server on ubuntu 14.04 using postfix and dovecot. When I'm trying to send mail or receive mail then it's not working and GENERATING no error. mail log Jun 11 07:40:18 mail ...
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No login possible with postfix/dovecot and mysql under IMAP

I did the following installation of my own mailserver with dovecot/postfix and MySQL: https://thomas-leister.de/internet/mailserver-ubuntu-server-dovecot-postfix-mysql/ If you see the section of ...
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Postfix / Dovecot / MySQL- doesn't work!

I have just installed a Mail- Server on Postfix and Dovecot using MySQL to authenticate the user. But if I try to conntect to the Server via Outlook or Thunderbird, the following Error appears in the ...
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SMTP mail server with postfix/dovecot does not require authentication

I have a mail server with postfix and dovecot with which I'm able to receive mail at my email address. When I'm connecting from a remote mail client via POP3 it is saying authentication failed even ...
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Ubuntu Email Server identifies as Junk!

I set the Email server with PostFIX and Dovecot. But when I send emails from my server to Gmail, Live and other major Email services they put the email in the Junk or SPAM folder. What is wrong? ...
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Dovecot - imap-login SSL_accept() failed

today i configured Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL from tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassassin Actual dovecot ...
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How to send to Gmail with Postfix?

How would postfix be configured so that a test e-mail as below would be sent through Gmail? nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ swaks --to [email protected] --server mordor....
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Mulitiple dovecot.conf files. Which is the actual configuration file?

I needed to make changes to dovecot.conf. However, there are 2 of them on my system -- similar, but different: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /usr/share/dovecot/dovecot.conf What's up? Which is the ...
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Bounce settings not connecting to iredmail server with correct authentication details

I am using a VPS Server, Abuntu 22.04, PHP 7.3 and Interspire Email Marketer (IEM). The errors below occurs when I set the bounce email (in IEM) the same as it was previously on another VPS server. ...
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Dovecot error connecting through Interspire email Marketer

I am trying to setup the Bounce feature of Interspire Email Marketer (IEM) setup on a VPS (VPS 1), and am getting the following error. Im not a developer so dont understand whats happening. I moved ...
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Postfix unable to send and receive emails

I have a new ubuntu server, version 23.04, where I have Webmin installed and through which I installed Postfix and Dovecot. I have a local user (eml_user1) that I want to have the email address ...
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Ubuntu 20 stopping MySQL for automatic update

I have Dovecot server with MySQL. Ubuntu is stopping MySQL automatically which causes problems in Dovecot. Why does this happen? How to disable auto update on MySQL or Ubuntu server? Logs: Mar 8 06:...
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Postfix + devocat + roundcube + WordPress - I can't receive emails and roundcube is showing nothing

I'm doing a migration for my client for his website based on WordPress - from hosting to VPS. I am using apache2 for WordPress. I changed the DNS to the new IP (VPS) in the DNS control panel and ...
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Server won't receive emails from Instagram

I am having issues receiving emails from instagram to my server domain. The email works fine (to and from) everywhere else. Facebook also wouldn't send to a different email using the same domain. Any ...
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I created a mail server using postfix and dovecot on ubuntu 20.04 but my mail goes to spam

I created a mail server using postfix and dovecot on ubuntu 20.04. I'm using a valid trusted SSL certificate from let's encrypt, but my mail goes to spam on Gmail and other mail services. I'm sending ...
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Dovecot returns a hash mismatch after setup

So I had a working setup with postfix and dovecot with virtual users stored in a postgresql db on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. I've decided to make a new setup on a VPS based on the same settings (that I ...
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Removing mail-stack-delivery doesn't remove its components

Once I installed mail-stack-delivery $ sudo apt-get install mail-stack-delivery I decided I wanted something else, so I tried to uninstall it $ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mail-stack-delivery ...
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Ubuntu MX records

I am little confused about MX records. At least I think that is the problem, I followed a lot of guides about how to setup postfix, postfixadmin, dovecot on my VPS with Ubuntu 16.04, but I had no luck ...
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Dovecot-mysql has unresolved dependancies

I have set up a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server with a LAMP + Postfix + Dovecot setup. Almost everything is working but I am getting an issue with dovecot dependencies. I have installed dovecot-core using ...
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Dovecot Godaddy Vps Gives error when installing with post fix

Iam trying to install dovecot on godaddy vps ubuntu 16 os i have installed postfix with smart host as godaddy works with relay server to send emails When i am installing Dovecot gives me bellow ...
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Create specific mail directory system user

I have to create a new system user with specific mail directory inside folder like /var/wwww/user/maildir I have tried chown command to assign mail directory to user but my mails are being bounced ...
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How to convert or import or integrate pst, dbx and mbox to a mail server?

I have a few mail archives in the Outlook .pst, Outlook Express .dbx, and Thunderbird mbox formats. I would like to consolidate them into a POP3/IMAP server like Dovecot. The goal is to consolidate ...
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Mail Server running well but incoming traffic kills my internet connection

I am running a Postfix - Dovecot - MySQL mail server on my personal Ubuntu dedicated server which I'm hosting it in my home. Everything is working amazing except the fact that I am getting loads of ...
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POSTFIX not honoring virtual mailboxes

We have a mail server running POSTFIX with virtual mailboxes. The server was working fine under Ubuntu 14.04. We upgraded it to 16.04 and now the server is rejecting all virtual mailbox email. The ...
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(Ubuntu Server 16.04) Slow sending smtp with attachment

Hi! I have postfix + dovecot How to speed up the upload attachment file from smtp? Inbox mail very fast and send mail without attachment very fast. Send with attachment very slow :( Upload 20Mb = up ...
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Virtual user mail server setup

I have tried multiple times to setup a mail server that uses a mysql backend on ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I have used this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-...
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Doveconf -n not empty after fresh install - how to update the default, if possible?

After a fresh install of dovecot in Ubuntu 15.10, which was done after having purged the old conf, I still have a non empty doveconf -n output, but the man says that it should only output what is ...
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Setup Postfix/dovecot/maysql - receiving mail in Maildir but not in client inbox

I'm not an expert in mail server configuration I successfully setup the server to send mail but i cant find the solution for receiving my emails in the client inbox but i can in my Maildir. response ...
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Trying to setup a mail server on ubuntu 14.04

I'm trying to set up a mail server but get the following errors whilst trying to connect with thunderbird: Jan 7 03:11:59 Ubuntu-1404-trusty-64-minimal postfix/smtpd[6752]: lost connection after ...
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Postfix + MySQL + dovecot + postfixadmin - mail arrive to local users

I'm trying to set up a mail server with virtual users. I can: login in roundcube, send mail to gmail but when I send messages to my own domain, the mails arrive to local users. Mail was in /var/...
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Postfix suggests a bunch of other packages on install.What are they and should I install them?

Postfix suggests these packages on install: procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin dovecot-common postfix-cdb postfix-doc I know what procmail and dovecot are. It's ...
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How to setup a portable mail aggregator with web UI?

I want to setup a mail collector, imap server and web mail viewer on my portable quantal ubuntu, and need some guidances to exactly which components is best and most efficient to serve the purpose. ...
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