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Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux

Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux originally developed by Timo Sirainen in 2002.

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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 complicated enough, why have 2 things to manage and…
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How to convert mbox mail files, as found in Thunderbird dir, to Maildir?

Several ruminations on this topic can be found on the Internet. None (that is easily found) answers the question though, especially for those not familiar with both formats in detail. The relevant article on Mozilla wiki notes in its first…
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NOQUEUE: reject: Relay access denied

I recently setup a mail server following the instructions on linode.com (https://library.linode.com/email/postfix/postfix2.9.6-dovecot2.0.19-mysql) except I am using postgreSQL instead of mySQL. Everything about the server is working properly except…
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How do I enable DKIM for bounce messages in Postfix

I have set up a linux email server with Postfix and have correctly set up SPF and DKIM. When I send an email, the email is signed properly, and when I view the source from the receiving client (such as gmail), I can see that SPF and DKIM passed. I…
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What does the less sign (<) mean in dovecot.conf in front of ssl certificate path?

A couple of years ago I've configured a mail server with exim4 + dovecot 2.2.10 on debian and recently have been tweaking dovecot config. I use a self-signed x509 openSSL certificate, the paths to the certificate and the key are given as ssl_cert =…
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Can Dovecot IMAP automatically create Maildir folders for new (virtual) users?

everyone. I am learning to set up a dovecot home IMAP server using a virtual Ubuntu 12.04 machine. My intention is eventually to have a home server that uses POP3 to take email from several addresses and remove them from my ISP's servers, while…
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Fatal error (bad field count) while configuring Postfix

I'm using this tutorial to configure a mail server using postfix, dovecot and mysql. While configuring Postfix I have to uncomment the following lines and then restart Postfix with service postfix restart. I keep getting the following error when…
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Thunderbird not showing new/unread junk emails

Thunderbird fails to sync junk folder unless user clicks on junk folder specifically. How can user sync junk folder automatically, since otherwise there is a chance false positives might go unnoticed? Thunderbird is latest version 52.2.1 (32 bit) on…
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Delivering emails for one user from two domains into a single mailbox in Postfix+Dovecot

I am setting up a mail server using Postfix+Dovecot on RHEL7. Though it is not required, I would like to set it up such that the mail server is able of hosting multiple domains. The problem that arose is that I have two domain names that are…
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dovecot WILDCARD SSL (certicate.crt, private.key, intermediate.crt) not working

I have installed dovecot and postfix and got it working, but when I change the ssl_cert_file, ssl_key_file and ssl_ca_file dovecot configuration to my wildcard SSL certificate (working on Apache) it simply does not work. It is not a file permission…
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Dovecot: ssl-params: Generating SSL parameters

What is the message: dovecot: ssl-params: Generating SSL parameters inside logs telling me? I did not change anything on server settings.
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debian cannot uninstall dovecot

I have a problem with uninstalling dovecot. And while trying to fix it I made it way worse. Here is the "log": Errors were encountered while processing: dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code…
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20GB+ worth of emails in my /home what is a better solution for that?

My email storage requirements are outgrowing anything reasonable with respect to local mail storage. As we speak 99% of my home partition is filled with personal mail in Thunderbirds mail dirs. Needless to say, this is just painful, badly searchable…
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Postfix: Allow sending only from virtual users used by dovecot

So I have set up my postfix server with dovecot according to this tutorial. Receiving emails works fine, sending them too. But these days I had the problem that my postfix started sending emails from www-data@domain.com because it was just sending…
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mutt-1.7.0: how to display Thunderbird labels / keywords / tags?

I am aware that standardized e-mail labels, keywords, tags is a mess. But here goes anyway. Gentoo mutt comes with https://www.neomutt.org/feature/keywords patch. My IMAP server is dovecot-2.2. :set index_format = ... %Y ... works for label names…
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