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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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Why Does hotmail still reject my emails?

I have a very strange problem with my emails being marked as spam by hotmail. I just have configured Postfix + Dovecot on my server and all works perfectly. I can Send/Receive emails. I only have problems with hotmail accounts, I do not understand…
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SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 - Find the username

First let me state that the mail server is working fine and users can connect and send email. Basically there is a local web script connecting into the mail server trying to send mail every few minutes. It has the wrong password. Problem is we…
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Dovecot user lookup fails when using username@domain format

I have Dovecot v2.0.11 installed on a FreeBSD server and the user lookups for incoming email addresses are failing, but lookups for system users is successful. Dovecot is setup to use system users, so my dovecot.conf has userdb { driver =…
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Can't receive mails from Gmail

A few days ago Gmail suddenly decided to stop sending mails to my mailserver. I am using Postfix and Dovecot with an paid SSL Certificate running on Debian 7 with everything updated. My mail.log shows the following error: Dec 19 11:09:11 server…
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doveadm: Delete messages older than date

I've a situation where some users keep very old messages (+5 years) on their mailboxes that are just a waste of space and due to safety reasons should also be deleted. I find out that I could use doveadm for this, however running something…
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Postfix → Dovecot LMTP: User does not exist: uid@domain

I am trying to have Postfix deliver local mails via Dovecot's LMTP (among other things to replace procmail with sieve). Up to now, I've been using mailbox_command = procmail - a "$EXTENSION", delivering to local ~/Maildirs. Following…
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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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is it safe to remove mails on imap server with "rm"?

I use dovecot IMAP server and want to delete big unneeded mails: cd /var/spool/foouser; du -a | sort -rn > /var/tmp/du-mail-foouser.log Now I see big mails at the top and after looking at them I want to remove them. Is it safe to just call "rm…
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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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Configure roundcube login by hostname

I recently installed Roundcube on my Centos6/postfix/dovecot server. Default install works great but I am trying to configure some options that I cannot seem to figure out. My end result would be a user…
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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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Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory

I've setup postfix, dovecot and roundcube. receiving and sending email via roundcube is working as well as receiving emails via imap with another email client. But I'm not able to send emails with an external email client. As soon as I connect, I…
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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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Failed SPF for email imported to Gmail because of client IP instead of server's in message when sent through SMTP from one local box to another

We have a linux (Debian) VPS with domain (let's say example.com with MX mail.example.com) that has SPF set up. There is dovecot+exim running. There is also Direct Admin on top of that. When I send a mail to foreign server then everything is fine.…
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Why use Dovecot AND Postfix/Sendmail?

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here but why do most Linux server distros come with both Dovecot and Postfix (or Sendmail)? As far as I'm aware all three of them are Mail Transfer Agents, with Dovecot having a 'secondary' function of…
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