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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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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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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/var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
I'm just trying to install mailman so that the permissions are correct, but no matter what I do mailman installs with the wrong permissions:
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ sudo apt-get install mailman
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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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postfix-dovecot email sending works with squirrel mail but not with Thunderbird?
I have setup an intranet email system using postfix, dovecot and squirrel mail, Which is working fine, I can send and receive mail to all users on the system. I presume that the issue is in the ...
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port 25 smtp port connection refused
I just settup my postfix on my VPS with the help of this guide: https://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-1204-postfix-dovecot-mysql/
Everything works, can send mails, recive it, etc ...
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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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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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Post-login scripting for Dovecot not working [closed]
I have Dovecot 1.2.12 running on Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I'm trying to get a post-login script to log the date and time that the users access their IMAP mailbox. I've read the Dovecot wiki and added ...
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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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Courier IMAP postfix Question folders and namespace
So, I'm running a small email server. On this server, I have installed and run postfix with courier-imap. It works great, but I need to expand it's folder options for better record keeping. ...
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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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Dovecot default config?
I have neglected to make a backup of the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf
Could somebody who has a fresh install or a working config file post it? I tweaked a setting and now i cannot figure ...
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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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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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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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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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MailServer that doesn't store any data outside database?
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Is there any OpenSource (MIT/BSD/LGPL license) mail server that doesn't store any of its data (except database connection string/sql query scripts) outside a database ?
I looked at Dovecot,...
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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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push email / email server tutorial
Does anyone happen to know the current status of push email in the linux world? From my searching at the moment I have seen Z-push http://www.ifusio.com/blog/setup-your-own-push-mail-server-with-z-...
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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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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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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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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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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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different mailbox formats for special dovecot/system users
On a server me and a friend set up we're currently using mbox mailbox format.
(Think I should mention that my friend set up the mail part of the server and I yet don't know too much about mailserver ...
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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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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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Adding a new drive for email server
I have installed email server with "dovecot, postfix, postfixadmin" etc. Now I mounted new driver. All my mails are in folder /home/vmail/ user is: vmail uid=5000 gid=500.
I like to move those files ...
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Dovecot service stopped
I am running on Ubuntu 10.10.
My Problem is; dovecot service automatically stops. How to get rid of this problem?
Here is the line from the dovecot log.
dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved ...
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