Questions tagged [dovecot]
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind.
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mail server migration tools
We have zimbra as mail server with an old ubuntu in our company.
I decided to install a clean Debian or FreeBSD with a Postfix+Dovecot and other needed tools such as OpenDKIM and other tools.
We have ...
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How do I use SSL and SASL for dovecot sieve autoreplies?
Dovecot's sieve can send its autoreplies via another SMTP server. But I can't find in the documentation anywhere how to configure authentication and certificates/ssl for this connection.
Currently my ...
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Where to find textstring in Linux/Dovecot
I have installed the iRedMail email server script on an Ubuntu 22.04
with Nginx.
Now, when I create a new email account,
the user gets an email when he logs in the first time.
It’s a welcome email ...
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How to get dovecot to use postfix mailbox?
I try to get postfix and dovecot up and running.
I have a little problem with the mail-box path that connects both.
Postfix
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail
virtual_mailbox_domains = mydom.org
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Can we use bi-key authentication with dovecot & thunderbird?
I run the dovecot imap server and use thunderbird as frontend.
The access is password protected, and I see zillion login attempts with leaked passwords. I would like to switch to bi-key authentication ...
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Apple iPad cannot access IMAP via Dovecot -- SSL unsupported protocol
I have a mail server that has been running for quite some time. Most of my clients use non-Apple devices or are okay with web-clients. I am only now running into this roadblock, because a new client ...
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Ubuntu server 22.04 Postfix/Dovecot error: postfix/smtpd fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Following the Ubuntu's official guide Install and configure Postfix, when I run
telnet localhost 25
I get
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by ...
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Fix postfix/dovecot to accept local connections on the same VM-host
I have a root-server with some VMS. 10.77.77.101 is the mail server and 10.77.77.107 (vm07) is a PHP webserver running Wordpress. Sending and receiving mails with Thunderbird works fine. Sending mails ...
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Dovecot not loading sieve or not filtering
root@debian11:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n
# 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3)
# OS: Linux 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.8
# Hostname: localhost
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Which OS, SQL, Postfix and Dovecot files/folder need to be backup for disaster recovery?
I'm running an e-mail server (Postfix/Dovecot) on a Pi4, Buster OS. We want to setup a parallel Pi (same basic image) and use rsync to transfer critical files to this Pi using a cron job on a regular ...
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migrate courier on Debian 10 to dovecot on Debian 11 with Froxlor
I use [Froxlor][1] on a debian 10 server only to manage my customers email accounts. Installed is Courier 5.0.6 and postfix 3.4.23.
I plan this to first upgrade to Debian 11 then migrate to dovecot.
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Moving emails to a different disk
I have a homely postfix+dovecot server running in ubuntu.
I need to move the email storage to a different disk. There is not much information available on how to proceed, most of the use cases refer ...
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What does the dovecot acl plugin actually do?
Can I reasonably do shared mailboxes without the acl plugin? I do personal mailbox sharing completely with unix permissions: i.e. some accounts put their mailboxes in a unix group so that everyone in ...
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OpenBSD mail server getting too many hits to non existing emails
Server: OpenBSD 6.6 GENERIC#3
I'm recently working on an OpenBSD mailserver, it daily gets hits to not existing accounts,
May 31 16:00:23 Makmx01 smtpd[57197]: 05844daf9b176227 smtp failed-command ...
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Problem with dovecot login, how can I fix failed login?
I have a terrible problem with logging into dovecot.
This is my /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passdb (just one single entry with plain password):
[email protected]{PLAIN}asdf::::::
When I run dovecot auth ...
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