Questions tagged [dovecot]
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind
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"antispam plugin not configured" [closed]
I'm trying to get the dovecot-antispam plugin working on a 15.10 server (I can't dist-upgrade, it's on a vps) and I'm getting the error message of anti spam plugin not configured when trying to move ...
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Where did /etc/init.d/dovecot go in 14.04?
I'm trying to configure dovecot+postfix on a new 14.04 release image in EC2. I installed mail-stack-delivery without installing postfix or dovecot separately. Now I can't figure out how to restart ...
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imap-login: Error: Failed to initialize SSL server context: Can't load SSL certificate ee key too mall
Upgraded my server to 20.04. Now I can't get IMAP working through dovecot. I get:
Aug 1 23:25:53 defaria dovecot: imap-login: Error: Failed to initialize SSL server context: Can't load SSL ...
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I have mailserver configure using dovecot+postfix+mysql and it was runnig fine in the server(Ubuntu Server). But during last week it stopped working correctly. It doesn't send email. When I try to ...
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Procmail with Postfix and virtual mailboxes
I have setup a working SMTP, IMAP and POP3 server using Postfix and Dovecot. I have setup virtual mailboxes using the format /home/vmail/%d/%u, where %d is the domain (e.g. camilstaps.nl) and %u is ...
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Dovecot Install: "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory"
I have set up postfix and am now attempting to set up dovecot. I did apt-get install dovecot-common
I have changed dovcot.conf to include the following
protocols = imap imaps
And I now get this ...
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Removing the filesystem quota on a partition
I want to install Dovecot on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and it recommends that we place the control files into a partition which will not be limited by the filesystem quota.
If I create an ext4 partition with ...
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Cannot connect to pop3 or imap with Dovecot
Connections are refused on my server. Note: I am trying to connect from localhost here.
Command I'm trying to use to test:
user@hostname:~$ telnet localhost pop3
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
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Samba CATIA filename mapping
I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS as an ActiveDirectory connected mail server using dovecot and postfix. All works fine on this part.
Now we want to export the mail storage for backup purposes. I ...
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Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/<user>: Permission denied
Why can't I read mail with the mail command?
(There's almost certainly a problem with the mail-stack-delivery configuration, either postfix or dovecot, or both, but I should still be able to at ...
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dovecot can't compact mail folder /var/mail/username
ubuntu 11.10 32bit. Setup a dovecot imap server. Using Thunderbird on a different ubuntu machine (64bit) to access imap server. Everything else is fine, except I can not compact the deleted email ...
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How to disable Postfix logging?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and I am trying to disable logging for both Postfix and Dovecot. Does anyone know how to do this? I have found references stating that there is a setting in /etc/syslog.conf ...
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How to setup an Email alias in postfix
How would i go about seting up an alias that relays emails to one or more addresses?I am using dovecot+postfix.
For example I'd like [email protected] to forward to one or possibly 3 email ...
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Dovecot doesn't start
I've installed Postfix and it works correctly. I've installed Dovecot and set its configurations too. But when I try service dovecot start it terminates on startup. In syslog I have:
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Mail Server Can't Receive Email But Can Send Email - Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL
I have server where I want to set up a mail server to let me receive and send email from my domain. I'm currently having a problem where while I am authorized to send email from the server, but ...
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How to install newest dovecot stable when ubuntu repository is old?
This is a bit of a dumb question, but how do I install the newest stable of dovecot on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server? I'm still a bit new to ubuntu and linux in general.
The newest stable is v2.2.1, but in ...
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What replaced mail-stack-delivery?
Trying to install mail-stack-delivery on 19.10 Eoan I see it's now a transitional package that only installs dovecot-core. Before it used to install both Dovecot and Postfix and write a basic config ...
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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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My Postfix server became a spam server. How can I fix this?
I gotten a VPS recently and I wanted to host my own websites and with that, the ability to send and receive mail.
I set up my mail server according to this guide: https://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-...
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Strange symbols in front of suspicious services
I have an EC2 instance running a postfix-dovecot email server. I use an AWS security key to access this EC2 and I consider the security pretty tight.
When I run: systemctl list-units --type service --...
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installing mail server on an ubuntu server with existing web server [duplicate]
looking to install a mail server on a ubuntu server.
I already have a web server running on it (apache/php/wordpress)
But I am looking to also have a mail server.
As I understand it I need to add MX ...
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How to easily remember TLS options with postfix and dovecot?
Specifically I am studying for the LFCE exam and am having trouble remembering all the TLS options I need to add to the postfix/main.cf file which are:
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/server....
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Dovecot:/Thunderbird sslv3 alert certificate expired: SSL alert number 45
Thunderbird is silently failing to fetch messages for one of my mail servers. Looking in the server's dovecot logs I got the error message in the title, specifically:
imap-login: Info: Disconnected (...
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Why doesn't postfix/dovecot receive mails from Gmail?
I'm setting up a Postfix server that use Dovecot SASL Authentication on a EC2 virtual machine with an ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. I can send mails to my Gmail account but I cannot receive them. It supposed ...
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Postfix, Dovecot mail server can send mails but not receive
I'm new to Linux servers and just got myself a VPS from Ovh. Also got a domain though ovh.
I have tried to use this tutorial to set it up. And I guess that somewhere I must have messed up. The issue ...
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Postfix+Dovecot Unix user authentication
I want to set up a mailserver with postfix+dovecot+roundcubemail. And I don't want virtual users. Is it possible to use Unix users and somehow just include the /etc/passwd file for authentication/...
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Dovecot does not receive emails - Connection refused
I try install Mail server on Ubuntu, I've installed dovecot server.
telnet localhost 110 - correct
telnet mail.domain.cz 110 - correct
When I send email:
echo "Testicek" | mail -s "Dovecot test" ...
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How to stop Dovecot from logging to syslog
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with the packaged Dovecot for imap and Roundcube for its web interface. Everything's working dandy except I can't get Dovecot to stop logging imap logins and imap logouts to ...
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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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Perfect forward secrecy in Ubuntu 14.04 default installation
Does Ubuntu 14.04 support and enable perfect forward secrecy ciphers in the default TLS configuration of servers such as nginx, dovecot and postfix?
Previous versions of Ubuntu such as 12.04 did not ...
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dovecot with antispam plugin
I am trying to enable antispam plugin for dovecot, but then dovecot stops working:
Jun 4 19:31:25 newmail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<tomasz_grobelny>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=...
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Is it safe to delete folders for unused accounts in var/mail?
My colleague sadly died last year, and managed the Dovecot accounts on our ancient Ubuntu (6.10) server, and I know absolutely zero about Dovecot or email server admin.
We have several discontinued ...
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How to use local dovecot (imap) with Alpine (18.10+ changes)
I have been using Alpine mail client with a local dovecot imap server (fed by offlineimap) for many years. Here are my compete 2011 instructions for how to set this up (https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2011/...
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Spam-Mail always in inbox and not in ".Spam"-directory (Postfix+Dovecot+SpamAssasian+ClamAV) [closed]
As the title already says I receive Spam mails always in my mail inbox and not redirected to the Postfix Spam directory ".Spam" for each mail user. Any ideas why? (Ubuntu 14.04.1 with Postfix+Dovecot+...
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Why can't I get a telnet localhost 25, ehlo localhost output of 250-AUTH?
How do I get a telnet localhost 25 output of 250-AUTH LOGIN? Similar to the questions asked here and here, I set up a Postfix-Dovecot mail server using Ubuntu 12.04LTS and can not get it to ...
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Postfix Dovecot SASL Authentication not enabled/working ubuntu 12.04 server
I set-up Postfix running with Dovecot with SASL support with virtual mailboxes in a Postgresql Database and Amavis Clamav and Spamassassin all working together
Working = I can send and receive email ...
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Postfix + Dovecot - not receiving mail in vmail directory
i have been spending countless hours on this and now i figured id come to the 'internet' for help.
I have installed a new install of postfix + dovecot + mysql.
Right now, i am able to receive email ...
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logwatch-7.4.0 reports pop3 and imap sessions as "unmatched"?
Since upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 (and therefore dovecot 1.x to 2.x) logwatch is reporting the end of every pop3 and imap session as "unmatched." I've been searching for a solution and found that ...
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Fatal: Error in configuration file (dovecot)
I am getting an error that I don't understand well. It says it is missing one opening bracket on line 33. Unfortunately I have tried at the beginning of the line and at the end of the line. Finally ...
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Problem with PAM authorization in Dovecot
I've been using postfix with sasl and dovecot for many years. Three days ago, authorization for dovecot via PAM stopped working which means no IMAP or POP3. SASL was working as I could tunnel in with ...
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Dovecot won't stop running
I installed dovecot and postfix on my laptop a while back for hands-on experience. I decided though, that one of my backup PCs would be a better testing grounds. I removed postfix, but am unable to ...
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IMAP Server does not show received mail
I have recently set up a brand new mail server using Dovecot and Postfix, which is correctly sending and receiving mail, with the /var/mail/ directory mailbox.
Here's the problem: mail cannot be seen ...
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Dovecot IMAP (port 143) not working with SASL while Postfix (port 25) is
I've got SASLAuthd working (via LDAP), and am also successfully able to telnet via port 25 with my LDAP credentials. Postfix is configured with Dovecot. All 3 services are running fine (Postfix, ...
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How to set up a mail server with multiple domains (12.04)
I'm the only user on my server, so the default install of postfix/dovecot has been fine until now. But I now have 4 domains and need an email address for each of them. I would like to be able to send/...
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Ubuntu 12.04 postfix/dovecot server can send email but can't receive any
My home server is on comcast internet so I'm successfully using the comcast smarthost to relay my email out to the web. However, all the emails I send back to the box bounce back to me as shown below ...
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Is it safe to remove files in .Sent/cur directory of dovecot?
For unknown reasons the .Sent/cur folder of one of the users had grown up to 500 MB. Is it safe if I remove all the files of this directory? And why it had grown up so dramatically? Note, that this ...
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Having a problem to send message to gmail from our mail server
We use Ubuntu Server and in a days I have installed and configured Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL as it is explained here. From that tutorial I escaped creating certificates and antispam application. Right now ...
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