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debian cannot uninstall dovecot
This uninstalls dovecot in debian:
systemctl stop dovecot
systemctl disable dovecot
apt-get purge dovecot-core
apt-get autoremove dovecot-core
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Gmail pop3 ssl can't fetch mail server
It seems like since wednesday Google Mail Servers no longer accept intermediate certificates signed using the sha1 hash algorithm.
Running the command openssl s_client -connect server.example.com:995 ...
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Dovecot gmail SSL error
I recently hit this issue, using letsencrypt for my certificate, and found that I had mistakenly put a link to cert.pem in my dovecot ssl_cert setting instead of fullchain.pem.
So I was seeing the ...
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Thunderbird not showing new/unread junk emails
It appears Thunderbird does not automatically sync junk or trash folders by default (tested latest stable and beta versions on Windows 10). The solution was to include junk folder in message ...
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Postfix/Dovecot/Let'sEncrypt - Gmail/E-mail clients say emails form my server are not encrypted properly (red lock)
Encryption of outgoing traffic has not much to do with any of the above.
When sending mail, your Postfix connects to Gmail (so neither port-forwarding nor MX records are involved) and acts like a TLS ...
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Dovecot not working, apparently not listening to ports 110, 143, 993 or 995
This entry in the log—where it says “starting up without any protocols”—is the big clue:
Aug 10 16:28:55 domain.tld dovecot[3122]: master: Dovecot v2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec) starting up without any ...
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Dovecot's grace_quota is not working
Dovecot's grace_quota does not work as you expect it. From the Dovecot manual on quota:
With v2.2+ by default the last mail can bring user over quota. This is useful to allow user to actually ...
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How to configure dovecot to NOT try to mount user's home
I do not have your environment, but I quote from the
Dovecot - Community Help Wiki
(the part in bold is that way in the original text) :
NOTE: Dovecot will NOT work in an encrypted directory/folder....
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How to restart or reload Dovecot via doveadm
https://askubuntu.com/questions/451406/where-did-etc-init-d-dovecot-go-in-14-04 tells:
doveadm reload - in 14.04 the initscript was removed for not understandable reasons.
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How can I prevent that an user sends mail like another user on Postfix?
You probably want to use the reject_sender_login_mismatch parameter in your smtpd_sender_restrictions configuration, so you would have something like this:
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
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Postfix/Dovecot/Raspbian not receiving emails from outside, IPv6 only
Your problem appears to be that the authoritative DNS servers for dynv6.net are sending corrupt DNS responses. This is what I saw when I first attempted to resolve your MX record:
$ dig mx ...
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How To Configure a Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssassin and Sieve to move to Spam / Junk folder
This is how is solved it (it took 7 months):
apt install dovecot-sieve dovecot-managesieved
nano /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf
Add or set in:
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = $...
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How to make Dovecot maildir format emails be gziped using zlib
You have made dovecot capable to read compressed files in maildir directory.
As I understand you need separate tweaks to compress (old) uncompressed messages.
https://doc.dovecot.org/...
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dovecot configuration with lmtp and vmail user - INBOX directly created in Maildir, missing Junk, Trash, etc. folders
I don't have exactly the same configuration as you, but I have virtual mailboxes (for groups) and the special mailboxes were not automatically created. I had to write a script in order to do it (...
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Roundcube issues after server upgrade (Debian 10, PHP7)
I ran grep -ri "X-Frame-Options" /etc/apache2 and found out that the SSL I self signed added this to the rule set.
I edited /etc/apache2/conf-available/ssl-params.conf and changed Header always set ...
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Have sendmail authenticate users against dovecot (or passwd-style files)
You can configure cyrus-sasl to auth against dovecot using remote imap capability.
For example in CentOS (auth against local IMAP/Dovecot):
/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
MECH=rimap
FLAGS=" -O 127.0.0.1"
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How can i view mail using doveadm?
Normally you'd use an IMAP client to access mail, as Dovecot is an IMAP server...
mutt -f imap://bob@localhost/INBOX
As a trick, it is possible with some IMAP clients to talk directly to Dovecot, ...
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Postfix/Dovecot mailserver with neomutt
I was able to sole the issue, by getting the server certificate and telling mbsync to use it.
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Retrieve emails from different folders in Office 365 with getmail in mbox format and Dovecot
This is normal – each mbox file corresponds to exactly one mailbox (folder). Additional folders would need to be stored as individual mbox files under ~/ (according to your current Dovecot config).
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Using dovecot for submission, how to configure dkim?
Dovecot does IMAP and POP3, not SMTP. It does offer a smtp proxy which is a recent feature but would still rely on an actual MTA so send the mail.
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Should the certificate used for postfix also contain all the domains used or just the hostname
If you want to use TLS with SMTP, you only need to make sure the hostname of the server, as referenced by the MX records of the domains, is in the certificate.
Examples:
mtak@gen1:~$ dig -t mx mtak....
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Dovecot not serving all messages through IMAP
Broken Indexes and Other Mailbox Issues
This sounds like an issue with a broken mailbox index, which is something Dovecot's usually very good at fixing on its own. In case it fails, you can force ...
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How to manage multiple email addresses in squirrelmail without having to create new user accounts?
You can set up a "Reply To" address in SquirrelMail: look in Options --> Personal Information.
That doesn't set up an actual email address, however: to do that, you need to set up aliases in postfix.
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Can't connect 587 port from external postfix/dovercot using tls
Iptables sequentially try to match your rules in the order they appear.
In your case (as said in comments, please provide the result of iptables -S commands, as we lack information with iptables -L ...
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Can't connect 587 port from external postfix/dovercot using tls
Remember that iptables rules are read top to bottom. When you add a rule with -A it's appended at the end (or after the given number), when you use -I it is inserted in front.
Now you basically have:
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dovecot: trying to block non-encrypted connections
Note that plaintext authentication is always allowed (and SSL not
required) for connections from localhost, as they're assumed to be
secure anyway. This applies to all connections where the local ...
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dovecot isn't reading dovecot-sql.conf.ext correctly
Update: It appears that dovecot implements an extremely primitive string-splitting function that has no support for escape sequences or quotes.
The only workaround is creating an extra mysql user ...
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dotlock permissions problems with dovecot and OS X 10.10.3++
The failure with setgroups() comes from the fact that the user on the machine, where Dovecot runs has more than 16 groups assigned to it.
Run id -G <user> or id <user> as root (or as that ...
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