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

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

http://www.dovecot.org/

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Run script on receipt of email

I run a Postfix/Dovecot mail server for personal use. There's only a handful of actual mailboxes, essentially just [email protected] and [email protected]. I frequently use the virtual file to create virtual mailboxes forwarded to…
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Configure Postfix and Dovecot-LMTP to receive mail via SMTPUTF8?

I am running a Postfix server which uses Dovecot LMTP for mail delivery. I am doing this because it plays well with sieve. However, I have gotten some email lately with Unicode in the subject line. This mail is received OK by Postfix, which clearly…
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Thunderbird fails to connect to Dovecot and Postfix

I set up Dovecot and Postfix, but when I try to authenticate with Thunderbird, it gives this error: "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." ==> /var/log/dovecot-info.log <== Apr 06 10:42:16 auth: Debug: auth client…
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Can I delete or move mail files from maildir cur folder?

I ended up with a cur folder with over 350,000 files. So many that I can't find a mail program to manage them. Tried horde on the same server and it gives an error. Can I delete or move some of those files manually (shell)? Or would that create…
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Dovecot: Corrupted Mbox index cache file

I received following error message in /var/mail/mail.err: Jun 14 00:03:42 max dovecot: IMAP(bernhard): Corrupted index cache file /home/bernhard/Mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken virtual size for mail UID 5618 What is the…
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specify certificate of CA in Dovecot

In Postfix, I have specified my private key, my certificate, and the certificate of my CA smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/server.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/server.pem In dovecot, there are only…
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Finding the process id by port number

I'm trying (with minimal success at present) to setup the Dovecot mail server on my Fedora 24 server. I've installed Dovecot and set the conf file up, all fine. But when I run: systemctl restart dovecot After editing the conf file I get this…
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accessing Maildir locally with Mutt and remotely over IMAP simultaneously

I have Postfix + Maildir + Dovecot + IMAP on my mailserver. I am accessing my mailbox remotely over IMAP with one or more clients (Thunderbird). Additionally, on the server I have mutt configured for local (Maildir) access. When I am connected over…
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dovecot mysql-connection error because of special charater in config

I successful set up my Server with froxlor, etc. but now I get errros with my mail delivery Agent because I use a '#' in my mysql-pw. I tried to escape it with a '\' but it doens't seem to work. :( How can I change the…
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selinux, dovecot and sieve

I've just started learning to configure SELINUX and this morning on my CentOS 6.4 x64 system, with postfix/dovecot/mysql installed, I woke up to the following selinux issue found 1 alerts in…
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How can I add subdomains to letsencrypt using certbots?

I have certbot installed and successfully use it to encrypt my homepage. Now i tried to setup an email system for my website using dovecot and postfix. I got it mostly running, only problem is, that thunderbird gives me a warning about the adress…
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Authentication not working in Dovecot and PostgreSQL

I want to put my own mail server on VPS using Postfix, Dovecot, LMTP and PostgreSQL database. I can't send messages from VPS using the mail command, ie I don't receive these emails at my replacement account and sending emails from the backup account…
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Authenticating with dovecot

I'm trying to access my emails using thunderbird but I'm getting an auth problem. I'm using valid certs and did adduser testuser with a simple password (1 letter, 8 didn't seem to change anything). According to the logs it can't find the user. I…
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ACL/MAC Permissions for dovecot and postfix in CentOS 7

I am using this tutorial to set up Postfix and Dovecot on a CentOS 7 web server. But when I try to send a test email using sudo echo "TEST" | mail -s "testmail" newuser@localhost && sudo tail -f /var/log/maillog, I get an error indicating that…
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Dovecot ignores settings for mailboxes

I have set up Dovecot on my Postfix mailserver. My mailserver is using Maildir format: home_mailbox = Mail/inbox/ A user's Mail directory looks like this: $HOME/Mail/inbox $HOME/Mail/drafts $HOME/Mail/sent $HOME/Mail/trash I have set up mailboxes…
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