Questions tagged [imap]
The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) allows a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server.
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How to set the X-Google-Original-From header in Alpine (Pine) email?
Why the random down-vote? At least say what the problem with the question is.
I'm using Gmail and Alpine for e-mail with IMAP. Mail sent from Alpine has this field:
X-Google-Original-From: foo <...
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Moving a message to a different IMAP folder in mutt
Let's say I do
$ mutt -f imaps://.......%40...........:[email protected]/INBOX.Spam
and I want to move a certain message there in INBOX.Spam to INBOX.Junk .
How do I do that?
How to switch IMAP ...
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I need to create a pipe to convert string from UTF-8 to UTF-7-IMAP
To automate the command line creation of hundreds of directories in IMAP maildirs, I would need to be able to convert UTF-8 strings to UTF-7-IMAP on the fly.
In php, I found a way to do it with a ...
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Any successor to “Open all links” of Thunderbird?
For the ancient Thunderbird 1.5, there was an add-on “Open all links”, which, according to its description, opened “all http(s) links in an e-mail message with a single click”. A development of this ...
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Thunderbird does not honor the configured archive location if it's an IMAP folder on another account
I have my mail archives on a local IMAP server (to easily backup them and to not be dependent on a certain mail client)
If I configure another IMAP account to use a folder on this local IMAP account ...
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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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Is it possible to ignore "Inbox" folder when using IMAP (mbsync)?
I can't find a clear answer whether "Inbox" folder is necessary to sync when using IMAP protocol. I can't seem to uncheck it on gmail and mbsyncrc (mbsync's config file) seems to require an &...
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How do I change the user agent of K-9 Mail's IMAP client on Android?
I'm trying to use k-9 mail on android to connect to my organization's IMAP server which is being run as an outlook.office365.com service. As I'm sure many of you know, Microsoft recently turned off ...
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Need to be able to specify IP address of IMAP server on local network
I have an IMAP server that can be accessed from a public address that is behind a firewall. It has correct SSL certificates for the public name. It is easy to test this server from the private ...
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How to search for emails via IMAP in command line?
I want to search on an IMAP server for whether I have sent, cc, or received emails from certain email addresses, if so retrieve the title and snippets of message bodies.
https://tewarid.github.io/2011/...
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Dovecot is showing the wrong expiration date for the imap certificate
I am running dovecot dovecot-2.3.8-9.el8.x86_64 on CentOS Linux release 8.5.2111
I have nagios checks warning me if the imap certificate in about to expire. Recently I got just such an alert.
However, ...
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How to back up email to local filesystem? [duplicate]
I am moving to a different email provider. It will be the same email address, though. How do I back up the full account, all messages and attachments, to the local filesystem so that I can restore it ...
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mutt showing incorrect dates in main list and when opening the emails
Have mutt reading my gmail by IMAP.
The email dates seem to be correct up until the current date & time (ie. the most recent email). Then it starts listing old emails with nonsensical dates. From ...
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does mbsync know i deleted folders?
Newly working with neomutt and mbsync. I did an initial grab of all my mail and folders which was fine.
Then I started organizing my folders and mail. Some of the folders (or "mailboxes") ...
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cyrus imap does not start lmtp tcp socket, error message: Servname not supported for ai_socktype, disabling lmtp
Problem:
When starting cyrus imap with the following line in /etc/cyrus.conf:
SERVICES {
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lmtp cmd="lmtpd -a" listen="[192.168.50.100]:lmtp" prefork=1 proto=tcp4
}
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MacOS standard Apple email client, incoming mail arrives in trash folder. How to stop this?
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. (Can you suggest a better one?)
I'm setting up a brand new Macbook Air (Oct 2022) for an older neighbor.
The ISP is att.net
The email protocol is standard ...
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dovecot: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?
I'm running dovecot 2.2.13 under Debian 8.
I'd like to force an immediate TCP socket disconnect after any imap login attempt that fails.
Right now, if invalid credentials are supplied during an imap ...
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How to make (cyr)deliver put messages into mailboxes whose names contain space characters?
Since quite a while, I am running Cyrus imapd, which generally works fine. Now, for the first time, I am in a situation where I need to use cyrdeliver (the MDA which comes with Cyrus imapd) to deliver ...
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Migrating user IMAP files/data to another hard drive/server
Due to a machine crash, I need to move my mail server to another host. This includes user IMAP, but as the old server is not accessible I can't just drag and drop in an imap client application like ...
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How to switch IMAP folder in mutt?
Hello how do I switch between IMAP folders in mutt?
I have several folders in one IMAP account:
Inbox
Sent
Trash
Old
Spam
... etc
but all I can see is inbox.
I have tried reading the help text, and ...
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Easiest IMAP archiver for multiple accounts
I'm pretty new to linux, Im running Ubuntu at the moment. On windows I was using a service called "mailstore" to archive the entire contents of multiple email accounts. I've seen a few ...
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Mail Retrieve Software for Microsoft 365
As Microsoft 365 is moving to Oauth2, and Fetchmail didn't release a stable version supporting it (only an Alpha on the version 7, but not solid), my organization is looking for a IMAP mail retrieve ...
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How does Kmail store offline IMAP
I use KMail, and I have mail from Local Folders and an IMAP account. For the IMAP account, I have Download all messages for offline use enabled. My understanding is the offline IMAP messages are ...
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IMAP Service in front of Pop3
I'm running a system that includes integrated email support (Synchronet), and while there's an in progress IMAP service in progress, it's rather buggy and doesn't seem to work well with Thunderbird at ...
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Prevent Thunderbird from downloading old messages
After reinstalling the email client Thunderbird and configuring my email account using IMAP, Thunderbird starts to download all old messages. Judging from the time it takes it seems like entire ...
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IMAP authentication by Mutt: Is Mutt transmitting password in plaintext?
I have recently started using mutt to access my email account via IMAP.
My IMAP connection settings are as follows:
set ssl_starttls = yes
set ssl_force_tls = yes
set imap_user = "username@domain....
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simpler alternative to Dovecot for receiving emails on Centos 8
We want to receive emails on our server, so when we setup MX DNS record, the emails sent to that domain could be seen on the server
I wonder if there is any simpler alternative to Dovecot for ...
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How to properly decode utf7 file names obtained from an IMAP server
I have a few directories that I downloaded from an IMAP server.
Example:
$ find . -maxdepth 1
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./&BCEEPwQwBDw-
./&BCMENAQwBDsENQQ9BD0ESwQ1-
./inbox
./&BCcENQRABD0EPgQyBDgEOgQ4-
./&...
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mbsync/isync -> GUI mail client + mutt
I have been using mbsync+mutt for years successfully, managing a number of post boxes for accounts with different mailservers.
Now there is reason for me (some business emails are so deep with html ...
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OAUTHBEARER authentication fails in mutt
I've used OAUTHBEARER authentication to use mutt with GMail for a while, but I've run into a an issue that I can't figure out. When I launch mutt I get OAUTHBEARER authentication failed. Here is ....
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make mbsync+IMAP behave like POP
My work insists on Outlook365 and I use it in the most minimal way possible. That is, I pull email to my local machine à la POP and manage it there. Because of recent migration to MFA I have had to ...
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dovecot authentication against passed-file
currently i am facing some issues with dovecot and authentication against a passed-file.
Here some details about the environment:
Centos 7 (3.10.0-042stab142.1)
postfix (2:2.10.1-9.el7)
dovecot (1:2....
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How to keep dovecot from creating .imap directories if IMAP is disabled?
Since several years and through the last three Debian distributions, I am running dovecot as a POP3 server. In general, it works as expected, and I'm happy with it.
However, there is one little issue ...
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Is there any IMAP/POP3 rely and archiving server application?
Classic email setup:
[REAL-MAIL-SERVER]
[IMAP/POP3 >] ---------> [EMAIL-CLIENT]
[Storage]
Is there any server application (open source) that would permit to store ...
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MBSync Maildir++ to IMAP with subfolder in INBOX
I am trying to use MBSync to sync a local Maildir++ folder (dovecot mail data) into a remote IMAP mailbox. While it works in general, subdirs of INBOX are ignored.
Config looks like this:
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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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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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Possible to make mbsync (isync) update multiple multiple IMAP folders at once?
When running mbsync -a, it goes over each folder, updating it.
This gets slow if you have many folders (20+ for e.g.).
Is there a way to update multiple folders at once?
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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 get subject of gmail letter with curl?
I use curl in my Lua program to get new mail list.
I am trying to send request like this
local head_command = "curl --connect-timeout 30 -fsm 30"
local server = "imap.gmail.com"
local mail ...
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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
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Train spamassassin remotely using a single email account set up for both POP and IMAP
I use multiple devices ( desktop / laptop / iphone / ipad ). I use POP because my desktop has extensive folders that I do not want to upload/share with a server, or take up space on my mobile devices.
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Recover/reupload messages deleted by fetchmail
I used fetchmail to access my Hotmail/Outlook mailbox. It downloaded every message inside Inbox, but now that folder is empty at the server. Now I see that fetchmail deletes messages by default:
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How does IMAP physically store mails?
I am at last planning to move from POP3 to IMAP. I use maildir format to store mails and I want, at least for a short time, to keep a fallback route.
I'm trying without success to find out how IMAP ...
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Why does cron use MTA to send emails, while we use MUA to send emails?
I have looked at the definitions of MTA, MUA, MDA, for example, https://ccm.net/contents/116-how-email-works-mta-mda-mua and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_agent_(infrastructure)
In Lubuntu, the ...
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Infer user (mail address) from the pid of imapd process
on my server is installed Courier Mail Server. It happens that one imapd process uses tons of the system resources blocking the entire server.
I would like to track down the user (i.e. the mail ...
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Sync gmail using mbsync (isync) on debian linux using XOAUTH2
I am trying to sync my mails from gmail to my local mail server using mbsync. But i keep getting an error Error: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found
Here is my .mbsyncrc file:
#...
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Mixing local and remote IMAP folders in Neo/Mutt and iSync?
I've currently got Neo/Mutt configured alongside iSync for a few different accounts. Everything syncs up and I've got the Mutt client configured roughly how I want it. However, I run into issues when ...
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Sylpheed not auto checking IMAP accounts
I just installed Sylpheed 3.5.1 from the Debian repository. I configured my 3 IMAP accounts (2 GMail and a Yahoo Mail), and they all work properly, sending and receiving mail as they should be.
I ...
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Upload email from nnml to Gmail (or IMAP) [closed]
I have just found some tens of thousands of old emails in a Linux subdirectory which I would like to upload to GMail. GMail has an IMAP interface, so if your answer is IMAP-specific, that's ...
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