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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OpenBSD and Dovecot, external mail client can't recive mail

I have an OpenBSD serevr with OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, and I have a problem problem only with external mail clients. I can send mail but I can't receive mail from my IMAP/IMAPS server. With mutt ...
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Why use both Dovecot and Postfix?

Just out of curiosity, there are dozens / hundreds of tutorials helping you setup a dovecot - postfix mail server. On the surface, both of them are email servers, why use both? Mail servers are ...
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Cant Login With IMAP From Remote Source

I have dovecot and postfix installed and working fine with roundcube. I can send and receive emails, but only from roundcube. I want to set this up with my phone so i can access this email account ...
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How do I enable subfolders in Dovecot?

In the past I was able to drag and drop my folder with subfolders (local emails) into my imap accounts inside Thunderbird. Now I moved to my own vps and its running Dovecot. So far so good with emails....
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