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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Adding an account of postfixmailserver failed on Outlook
I need to add a new account to Outlook. This account belongs to a postfixmailserver. For POP settings, I set port number 110 for incoming and port number 25 for outgoing mail.
As the server doesn't ...
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imap indexing on postfix server
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I have a Postfix mail server that uses NFS mounted home directories. Each user’s inbox is located in /var/mail/user, while secondary mail folders are stored within the user’s home directory. ...
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does mbsync know I deleted a file?
May I just delete a file/ mail in the mbsync folder?
Or should I
configure (mbsync --config …, mu init --maildir=…), or
index the database (mu index)
after removing a file?
Put differently, what is ...
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How can I get libc-client.so.2007?
I downloaded the source code for UW-IMAP/imap-2007f_upstream from the URL below.
https://github.com/uw-imap/imap/archive/refs/tags/imap-2007f_upstream.tar.gz
I compiled it, but libc-client.so.2007 was ...
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Mutt hides full headers and i cannot see how to get full header information for emails
i am running what seems to be Mutt 1.9.4 (2018-02-28). And the problem is that I cannot obtain full header information for incoming emails. the h just provides an additional Mime-Version: 1.0 and ...
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Thunderbird 115.13.0 cannot connect authenticated user via OAuth2 to Microsoft Outlook365
I've Thunderbird 115.13.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and I have my email which is configured properly automatically by Thunderbird for IMAP and SMTP servers from Microsoft outlook office 365.
However, now it has ...
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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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How to expunge email from the Gmail "All Mail" directory over IMAP? (with Alpine e-mail)
Looking to manually save quantities of e-mail in batches so that they're deleted and expunged from Gmail to free up space. From Alpine the error message received is:
[No messages expunged from folder ...
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Where does fetchmail store e-mails?
Having removed procmail, am looking for where fetchmail is storing messages:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ tail -f /var/log/fetchmail.log
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX ...
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What username, server and port are specified for IMAP with Gmail using getmail?
Looking at github and trying to use their example config file:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ cat .config/getmail/getmail
[options]
verbose = 1
delete = false
message_log = ~/.getmail/log
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In sieve, how can I copy a message to another user's mailbox on the same server without re-sending it externally?
I am using sieve to filter email in our IMAP server (Cyrus imapd). I have basic knowledge of how this works and have made a few simple sieve scripts that behave as expected so far. To attach those ...
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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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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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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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