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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How do I set IMAP METADATA in dovecot?
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IMAP-Sieve works with administrator scripts, as described in the documentation. I want to use Sieve with IMAP events as an user. According to RFC 6785 I have to set the IMAP metadata entry ...
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Dovecot and recipient address with more then one subfolder
Sorry for my bad english! :)
Can multiple recipient delimiters be used in one address?
I would like to use an address that automatically creates multiple folders:
example "user+folder+subfolder@...
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OpenDkim - Eerror loading Key while opendkim-testkey outputs key OK?
The mail.err has this (I've used FQDN.example.com as a marker for my domain):
Mar 24 19:08:31 FQDN opendkim[17649]: can't load key from /etc/opendkim/keys/FQDN.example.com/mail.private: Permission ...
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squirrelmail installed, but no send / receive email
I recently installed squirrelmail on Ubuntu 18.04 server mostly following the guidelines in How to setup a mail server on Ubuntu 18.04?
I am able to use login from browser, but when trying to send ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 How do I fix the imaplib.readonly error?
I'm trying to use an imap script to view emails from a server. My script is able to log in fine, I get the 'OK Logged in' message, it's able to list the mailvoxes and dump untagged responses. After ...
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Have sendmail authenticate users against dovecot (or passwd-style files)
I have set up a Debian 10 mail server with sendmail and dovecot+virtual users in preparation of a migration (the old server is also running sendmail + dovecot, but older versions and with "real" users)...
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Dovecot Sieve and MS Outlook
I am looking for some guidance using managesieved with MS Outlook. I am using dovecot as my IMAP server. I was hoping to configure and use managesieved with MS Outlook to store any rule on the server. ...
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Emails are sent to root user account instead of orig recpient
Although emails are said to be delivered by /var/log/maillog I can't see emails in that user account; instead all emails are received by root user only. What I need to verify so that mails sent by ...
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how can I manage services running in freebsd jail
I've inherited some systems that run on freebsd and inside jails. Basically the services running are old versions of qmail, spamd, dovecot, etc. None of the versions are up to date or even ...
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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, ...
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How do I disable SASL in KMail?
I have a laptop running KMail 5.7.3 on Bionic Beaver. I just got a new computer with Eoan Ermine and am trying to set up Kmail 5.11.3 to use the same IMAP server. I set up the IMAP account, tried to ...
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Dovecot Sieve Trace does not create a log
i have a problem with my Dovecot 2.2.33.2 and Sieve Pigeonhole 0.4.21.
I want to trace, which sieve rules are used if a mail get moved or deletet or rejected oder what ever sieve does with the mail.
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Dovecot add existent folder from command line
I've insert a .INBOX.test folder in my mailbox folder /home/user/Maildir but I dont see it from Thunderbird.
What i have to do for see it?!
Thanks
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SMTP Error: [451] 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error in roundcube
as stated in the title, my roundcube (mail-server setup with mailcow with docker) generates this error-message.
It pops up whenever I try to send any mail and I do not receive any more mails.
I'm ...
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How to create my own simple autoresponder for Postfix with custom conditions?
Postfix/Dovecot
I want to create my simple custom autoresponder for Postfix, in Python, for instance. I don't need any third-party ready-to-user one.
I want it to have some custom conditions such as ...
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How are images in imap mails supposed to be stored?
On a mail server running postfix and dovecot with imap, mails are stored plain on the disk. Within those mails, we have discovered that mails are stored in 2 ways.
The image is embedded as a base64 ...
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How to use doveadm auth test to query tcp socket
So my dovecot has this service:
service auth {
inet_listener {
port = 12345
}
}
I can't seem to find a way to use doveadm auth test on it, when I try doveadm auth test -a 127.0.0.1:...
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How to get notifications on new mail from dovecot like webhook events?
I want dovecot to send events to an HTTP endpoint with metadata when new mails received in the inbox.
I tried ox driver but its not working:
logs:
Debug: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=20280,uid=112 [...
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My mailserver cant accept emails error 454 4.7.1 email@domain.tld: Relay access denied [closed]
sending emails is okay, I can send event to gmail. But when I send email from gmail, I've got error 454 4.7.1 email@domain.tld: Relay access denied
I am using postfix with dovecot.
I have sadly no ...
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Split large log file based on date criteria, while logging facility is running
the log file is /var/log/dovecot.info, >4GB, with date format:
2019-07-01 01:07:40
My objective is:
have the /var/log/dovecot.info which starts with 2019-01-01 00:00:00 and contains up to now log ...
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IMAPSYNC IO::Socket::IP configuration failed Connection refused
Operating system Ubuntu Linux 18.04.2
I am facing a strange issue with IMAPSYNC when syncing emails from a remote host to the localhost.
First of all, telnet is not allowed by the firewall, but I ...
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dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected auth failed user=<>
Operating system Ubuntu Linux 18.04.2
Webmin version 1.900 (latest)
Usermin version 1.751 (latest)
Virtualmin version 6.06-2 (latest)
I have a problem with Dovecot & Usermin/Virtualmin.
The ...
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cannot authenticate via LDAP as user has multiple UIDs
Upgrading from SLES11 to SLES 12 I had to replace a working Cyrus mail server with dovecot. Unfortunately I'm unable to authenticate via LDAP (which was not a problem with Cyrus):
My LDAP user has ...
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Find wich mailbox encrypt or not encrypt there passwords for IMAP or POP3
I try to list all mailboxes with the method of encryption passwords.
How can I do this? I know that I can grep the method=LOGIN,PLAIN,CRAM-MD5
with: cat /var/log/mail.log | grep method=LOGIN or ...
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fail2ban not blocking access to imap ports
I have a mail server with dovecot. I run fail2ban on it, with the jail [dovecot] enabled. Here is the status of that jail.
# fail2ban-client status dovecot
Status for the jail: dovecot
|- Filter
| |...
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Strange error doveadm
I try to move mail from one user to another:
sudo doveadm move -u touser INBOX user fromuser mailbox INBOX ALL
In finally I get an error:
doveadm(touser): Fatal: setresgid(1005(fromuser),1005(...
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Thunderbird can't find mail server configuration
I'm having issues when it comes to connecting to my mail server using Thunderbird client. The weird thing is that I can connect to my mail server usign telnet in the client "telnet mail.zumsfresh 25"
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opendkim.sock file not being created or does not exist
I'm attempting to configure opendkim on my raspberry email server that has a dovecot/postfix setup already configured.
I have followed some tutorials and some forum posts to further diagnose my issue....
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How can I return (fetch) the subject using Dovecot's `doveadm fetch`?
Dovecot allows me to search on SUBJECT returning the body
doveadm fetch -u myUser body SUBJECT mySubject
body:
My Body of message
This shows me it knows what a SUBJECT is, but when I try to return ...
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dovecot aut-worker Fatal
I have set up a test Server with dovecot and get this error in mail.warn
dovecot: auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 6169 killed with signal 11
My dovecot.conf is the same like ...
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Roundcube Error: Connection to storage server failed
I installed Roundcube on a Debian server running Dovecot, Postfix, mySQL for mail, and postfixadmin.
Then I installed Roundcube.
I have another server with the same configuration.
I can send and ...
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Warning in the logs of Postfix: “restriction NNN ignored: no SASL support”. But it does have SASL support
I have postfix + dovecot + pgsql. All has been working. Recently I've changed something in the config to combat spam. Now I see this in the logs:
localhost postfix/smtpd[2299]: warning: restriction `...
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What is the best way to backup emails locally? Use doveadm?
I am trying to backup my email server with dovecot. I have read the doveadm command documentation but it is unclear on how to use it.
I have create a test directory /dove_backup and then trying to ...
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Hide “You have old mail” message when logging into shell?
I have a mail system set up on my server (Postfix + Dovecot) that I use for personal and sys-admin email. Every time I login via shell (for all of my accounts), the message "You have old mail." is ...
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Postfix can't send email to popular email sites
I have an installation of iRedMail version 0.9.7 running on Scientific Linux (RHEL) 7 :
Linux smtp.fabricobjects.com 3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 26 12:13:22 CDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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How to automatically move mails to SPAM or JUNK folder instead of removing them?
I have problem with amavis-new. amavis-new removes an e-mails tagged as
SPAM are removed instead of leave them tagged by SpamAssassin. Here's
/var/log/mail.log:
Jul 20 20:04:09 cloud-vps opendmarc[...
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Securing ManageSieve Dovecot plugin
I've recently setup and configured dovecot and roundcube with managesieve and have been able to configure sieve through the roundcube plugin successfully.
I've noticed that there is a Thunderbird ...
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Dovecot Immediate Connection Closed [closed]
I've set up a mail server following https://thomas-leister.de/en/mailserver-debian-stretch/ and when trying to connect a client (Outlook 365) it's unable to connect to the SMTP server. Checking mail....
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Why is postfix-spamassassin-dovecot set up this way?
I have recently added spamassassin to my mailserver, as the blacklists weren't effective enough.
To clarify: I use Postfix as SMTP + Dovecot as LDA, postgrey for greylisting and postfwd for rate-...
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smtp hack attempts and no IP in logs
server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages:
Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [...
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Why doesn't Postfix relay just the user name to Dovecot via lmtp and how would one accomplish that on FreeBSD?
I'm having trouble understanding how Postfix relays data to Dovecot and looking for a minimal (as little deviation from distro config files as possible) but complete example on how to accomplish the ...
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Compressed Maildir [was Strange Postfix Maildir files]
I was called to solve a situation of recovering a backup of emails from a legacy server that died.
Having Maildir files, and with some header data, I could easily determine with some detective work ...
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Where do custom folders of virtual users with dovecot IMAP get stored?
I just set up a Postfix+Dovecot Mail System. This system uses only virtual users. I set the mailboxes up in /var/vmail/DOMAIN/USER in the Maildir format. Now I connected (successfully :D) with my IMAP ...
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postfix and dovecot use /root/Maildir instead of /var/spool/mail
I have a mailserver for testing with dovecot and postfix
this is the postfix config
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
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In dovecot, what syntax to use if I have a space in mysql password?
I'm trying to configure Dovecot to access mysql, but it's not working because there is a space in the mysql password.
driver = mysql
connect = "host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=...
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Do I need Dovecot on server if Gmail is hosting our email?
I noticed a recurring error in the mail.log as well as when I run service dovecot status on a server I 'inherited' for my job (used for our production website). We have our MX records pointed to/email ...
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Dovecot killed with signal 15
I've been noticing a lot of Dovecot shut downs lately. I've brought it to the attention of my hosting provider, but they're not being of much help.
Nov 2 10:07:22 srvr dovecot: master: Warning: ...
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Why my dovecot can't receive email sent by others? [closed]
postfix and dovecot was installed on my vps--centos7.
I can send email to others ,why can't receive email sent by others?
No problem for ports.
netstat -an
Active Internet connections (servers ...
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I can't send or receive email through my email server
I am using SSL to encrypt my email server's communications. However, when I try to send messages to it or retrieve messages from it, it fails to do so.
Here is what it says in /var/log:
Oct 28 15:29:...
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Why email can't be read from Maildir? [closed]
I have Postfix configured to deliver to Maildir-format mailboxes:
$ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf
home_mailbox=Maildir/
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
I have Dovecot configured the same:
$ cat /etc/...
