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Postfix Receiving Email issue
POSTFIX - DOVECOT - NODE JS - SMTP - RECEIVING_EMAIL
I have completed the setup for sending email from my custom domain using the Postfix Smtp server.
Now I need to receive the email from any mail ...
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Postfix - how to delete all the old emails?
I have a VPS server that manages the post.
It has postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, etc. The OS is ubuntu. Using POP only.
postconf mail_version
mail_version = 2.10.1
This server has about 15 email ...
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How do I reload enitre mbox file into the inbox folder in Dovecot?
I accidentally lost all my e-mails except for those in the inbox folder while changing the server configuration. I can still see the entire history of the mail server in the mbox file but I can't seem ...
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How to migrate from mbox to maildir++ layout in Dovecot?
I followed the official Dovecot guide for configuring the mailbox to allow child folders and all the folders I created before changing the configuration disappeared. In ~/mail I still have the old ...
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Dovecot expunge all emails marked as deleted regardless of folder
I have asked the following question elsewhere on StackExchange, and I was pointed here as the best place to ask the question.
The response said that I need to use doveadm which is what I expected. ...
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Postfix - SASL PLAIN authentication failed: Connection lost to authentication server
I set up an email server using Cyberpanel (which uses dovecot + postfix internally). I have some ticketing software hooked up to the email server that bulk sends emails (currently trying to send ...
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550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> User doesn't exist: [email protected] (in reply to RCPT TO command))
this is just killing me I really need fix it, well I'm setting up a Postfix Dovecot Sasl server in Gentoo with a FQDN for my personal domain and till now I can't surpass this
May 27 21:11:05 mail ...
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Dovecot- how to use virtual "All" and virtual "Flagged" mailbox (15-mailboxes.conf)
Using Dovecot with a Maildir set-up, I am trying to get the virtual "All" and virtual "Flagged" mailboxes to work. I have gotten all the other typical mailboxes working (Archive, ...
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Postfix and Dovecot Virtual Mailboxes
I have been setting up a home mail server on my Raspberry Pi using Dovecot and Postfix. This is all very new to me, and I've struggled my way through.
Now I'm on to trying to setup virtual mailboxes, ...
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Postfix: inbound and outbound relay with store and forward - advice needed
My ISP blocks port 25, so I'd like to setup a store and forward inbound and outbound postfix server (relay-server) that communicates with a mailstore server (mailstore-server), which is unable to ...
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Change mail subject with sieve based on content
I have a mailserver with dovecot and sieve enabled.
My bank sends me a mail when an incoming/ougoing transaction is made. However, it's a general subject "Transaction occured", the actual ...
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FInding 'server log' referred to in this postfix error
This is a bit embarassing, but I'm stuck at the first step of debugging a postfix+dovecot setup on Debian after following this guide.
Sending email from my server works, but receiving doesn't. I get ...
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Postfix: Allow sending only from virtual users used by dovecot
So I have set up my postfix server with dovecot according to this tutorial. Receiving emails works fine, sending them too. But these days I had the problem that my postfix started sending emails from ...
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Not receiving emails (no bounced errors) but can send out emails - Postfix, Dovecot, Webmin/Virtualmin
I'm using CentOS with Postfix, Dovecot, Webmin/Virtualmin. I can't seem to receive emails for all addresses for one of our virtual servers configured via Webmin/Virtualmin. But I can send out (and it ...
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dovecot configuration with lmtp and vmail user - INBOX directly created in Maildir, missing Junk, Trash, etc. folders
Here's my dovecot.conf (I don't have a conf.d).
listen = *
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.tld/fullchain.pem
ssl_key = </etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.tld/privkey.pem
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Outlook creates IMAP folders two (or more) levels deep with dovecot ... where are they?
I'm dealing with an issue where messages were stored two levels deep in an Outlook 2016 IMAP profile. The IMAP server is dovecot.
Like:
INBOX/
folder1/
folder1sub1/
folder1sub2/
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How to make Dovecot maildir format emails be gziped using zlib
I activate compression plugin by set following on Dovecot:
# /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf
(...)
protocol imap {
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib
}
# /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf
(...)
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Postfix/Dovecot mailserver with neomutt
I set up a mailserver on Archlinux with Dovecot and Postfix. I setup a Domain including SSL, MX records, DMARC etc.
Everything works fine except that I have trouble using it in Neomutt. To add the ...
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Retrieve emails from different folders in Office 365 with getmail in mbox format and Dovecot
I have an Office 365 account who has multiple folders (mailboxes). With getmail I can retrieve all emails from all mailboxes with the following configuration:
[retriever]
type=SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
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Error when trying to create a self-signed certificate for my mail server
I am configuring my mail server and when I try to create a self-signed SSL certificate something happens.
When I first executed the script, an error ocurred which was that the /etc/dovecot/ssl was ...
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Outlook 2010 and Dovecot IMAP: pst balooning in size
Server: CentOS7 with Dovecot 2.2.36 |
Client: Windows 7 with Outlook 2010
After copying all mails from a POP3 account to an IMAP account within Outlook 2010, the .pst was around 65GB (had to edit ...
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A tad confused about mapping virtual users to system users in Dovecot
What I hope to do:
Use getmail to grab emails from several of my accounts (gmail, fastmail, Yahoo etc) ->
deliver to an instance of Dovecot running locally ->
from which I'll use a mail client to ...
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IMAP Proxy to allow an internal server to access emails via imap.gmail.com with dovecot
I need to find a way to set up dovecot as a mail proxy server which is internet facing to allow the internal server to access emails from gmail
not really good with dovecot so would be appreciate it ...
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Can't get Activation Mail in Mailchimp with Postfix
I have a postfix-mailserver, which works for incoming and outgoing mail. Everything was fine until I created a Mailchimp-Account. The Activation-Mail wasn't recieved by my postfix-Server. Several ...
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How to receive external emails on email server
So far I have an email server set up using postfix / dovecot on a raspberry pi (debian). I can send emails externally and internally no problem however can only receive emails from within my server.
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How to setup inbound email correctly? MX settings?
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So I have mostly set up hosting emails. I can send mails from my phone through IMAP with my new server however I never receive any mail. I have tried the following:
telnet localhost 2525
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Mailserver Dovecot+Postfix/-Admin Authentification failed
everybody. I've been looking for the mistake in a few days now..
When i want to connect my Webmail with my E-Mail Server via Imap/Smtp, i got this error: "Authentification failed". When you need more ...
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postfix/dovecot, other domain is using our server to send spam
Our server is being used to send spam from an account that doesn't belong to our domain. This account is sending emails to other domains and it is affecting our IP reputation.
log:
Nov 20 06:31:42 ...
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Dovecot not working, apparently not listening to ports 110, 143, 993 or 995
My new mailserver with Postfix (3.3.0) and Dovecot (v2.2.33.2) doesn't work yet, since last time I installed a few years ago and now, the configuration changed a lot I noticed, e.g. in Dovecot the ...
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Dovecot gmail SSL error
I'm trying to import all my emails into gmail via POP3, which used to work fine. All of a sudden, I keep getting the following error:
SSL error: No path found from the leaf certificate to any root. ...
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integrating roundcube or another MUA with dovecot/postfix already installed
I have gotten dovecot and postfix installed and working; I can send mail and receive it successfully on my linux Ubuntu 16.04 server.
As part of that installation I have a database named servermail ...
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Should the certificate used for postfix also contain all the domains used or just the hostname
My mails keep ending up in the junk folders of gmail and microsoft. The mail server uses postfix and dovecot and has the following setup when it comes to ssl
server.domain1.ext - Hostname used by ...
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How to manage multiple email addresses in squirrelmail without having to create new user accounts?
I set up squirrelmail on my dovecot/postfix Ubuntu 16.04 mail server. When creating new user accounts I can fetch their emails by just logging into squirrelmail. I now would like to add more addresses ...
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postfix/dovecot Relay access denien out of sudden (for some virtual hosts)
while everything was working, today 3 of 10 domains on my vps Ubuntu server (postfix/dovecot) cant send emails from outlook getting
Relay Access Denied. No changes were done. (all the domains were ...
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Postfix/Dovecot/Raspbian not receiving emails from outside, IPv6 only
Hey everyone :) I'm experimenting with my Raspberry Pi to set it up as a mail server. I'm using dynv6.net as dynamic DNS Provider for IPv6 only, since i only have Dual Stack Lite at home. The ...
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postgrey has problems with freenet
my postifix server does not receive mails from freenet
mail.log:
Jul 22 21:04:03 host postfix/smtpd[4100]: connect from mout3.freenet.de[2001:748:100:40::2:5]
Jul 22 21:04:03 host postgrey[2749]: ...
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How to setup a dynamic sender address for a catchall mail address with Dovecot and Postfix?
Sometimes I need to send a mail via a sender address which would normally received by a catchall mail address. But the normal method to manipulate the returnmail isn't a nice solution. So I use a "...
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Dovecot-core wont start. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
When I run sudo service dovecot start the error I get is:
Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with
error code. See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl
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How to convert mbox mail files, as found in Thunderbird dir, to Maildir?
Several ruminations on this topic can be found on the Internet. None (that is easily found) answers the question though, especially for those not familiar with both formats in detail.
The relevant ...
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Mail rescue from Dovecot Server
I have a mail folder from Dovecot server. Contents are shown below.
Is there any way to convert to PST or another way to import everything to Outlook? Could I setup my own Dovecot server and import/...
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postfix/dovecot: deliver per-user unlimited aliases to individual folders
Context
On a Debian server hosting a small-traffic domain, a decent e-mail setup runs postfix as SMTP server and dovecot as IMAP.
Postfix configuration includes this:
recipient_delimiter = _
which ...
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dovecot my emails are disappearing even though quota is disabled
I have a dovecot mailserver running on CentOS. I use CPanel to manage it. The problem is all mail in my sent folder keeps disappearing as if a quota was met but quotas are set to no limit in CPanel .
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cant receive e-mail from Gmail {postfix & dovecot}
i just finish setup an e-mail account using postfix and dovecot out of the Plesk control panel.
i tested it with sending an e-mail to myself, and it worked,
but when i tried sending from my GMail ...
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How to config Postfix and Dovecot to receive mail from external server
I am not being able to receive mails in my local accounts, i can only send mails from multi local accounts to multi external accounts.
Till now after several tests, i notice that when i send mails ...
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RoundCube Send but dont receive
I just finished installing my Mail server following this tutorial : here
And installed Roundcube following this tutorial : here
So For now, I m able to send email but can't receive, so I need some ...
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Stop open relay in Postfix/Dovecot
I have a mail server set up with Postifx/Dovecot/MariaDB in CentOS 7.
It is somehow configured as an open relay.
Do you have any idea how to stop this?
Config files below:
master.cf
#
# Postfix ...
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postfix, dovecot and usernames different to e-mail addresses
I want to replace an old mailserver setup with postfix+dovecot. The problem I'm facing now is, that the old system had usernames different to the e-mail address of the user. For example:
E-Mail-...
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How to configure dovecot to NOT try to mount user's home
I'm trying to set up postfix+dovecot on my personal server (Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS) for sending me some notifications from cronjobs. My /home/%user% directory is encrypted, so it's inaccessible to anything ...
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Postfix setup with Dovecot, MySQL error when sending mail
So, following problem. I'm trying to setup a Mailserver loosely following this tutorial here: https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy/
The problem starts when I try to send my first testmail (inside ...
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postfix + dovecot configuration, no mails received
I'm trying to install a postfix + dovecot mail server on my own server and have trouble receiving mails. I followed this tutorial https://samhobbs.co.uk/2013/12/raspberry-pi-email-server-part-1-...
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