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How to troubleshoot wrong SSL cert for SMTP connection

i have a mailcow mail server, everything works fine including sending and receiving mails. However when i try to setup my account in Thunderbird, it automatically finds the Configuration needed. After ...
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Is it safe to use --append option of rsync to back-up Outlook pst and ost files and Thunderbird files

I plan to backup Outlook emails from desktop computers to NAS. The tool of choice is rsnapshot as I can install it on the old NAS (Synology DS 1010+). Rsnapshot uses rsync for its job. The classic ...
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Thunderbird Cal/Card-DAV autoconfiguration with Radicale and nginx reverse proxy

I'm running Radicale Cal/Card-DAV server with nginx as reverse proxy. Authentication in Radicale is via htpasswd/bcrypt. This is the snippet from my nginx config: location /radicale/ { # The trailing /...
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Why is Postfix sending private information? [duplicate]

My (external) webserver has postfix installed. I use it as a SMTP server for my private email. I'm currently investigating a problem where hotmail/outlook/live sees incoming email from me as spam, ...
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Can't receive messages in inbox of Thunderbird with Postfix and Dovecot

I have dovecot and postfix installed and working properly. I send messages to the server with postfix and Dovecot from clientnorbert@clientnorbert-1-2, with the email clientnorbert@ubuntumailsystem ...
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My Dovecot server stopped authorizing clients

I have seen answers to some similar queries on the web, but none of them have helped me fix this issue. I installed an instance of Thunderbird directly on the server, and it can pick up mail from the ...
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Warning with sending emails from Thunderbird to Postfix using its own CA

I'm asking for help because I simply don't have the strength anymore, I've spent a lot of time and I'm still left with an unsolved puzzle. My problem: I keep getting "Wrong Site" warnings ...
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Gmail reports SPF issues with emails sent from Thunderbird via postfix

This question is similar to the following question in the Mozilla forum. However, the answer given there to this question doesn't address the issue that I am seeing. Question in Mozilla forum: https://...
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How to subscribe to Office 365 IMAP folders

since about the beginning of November, I have troubles in using mail clients to access Office 365 mailboxes via IMAP. Specifically, it has become impossible to subscribe to IMAP folders, so that the ...
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Moving email from google

We purchased a business and the previous owner had an email with our domain name along with info and such and it was hosted by google. I'm paying for [email protected] and want to move to my email ...
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Dovecot/Postfix Auto Adding Account to Thunderbird Fails With Wrong Username

I've configured Postfix and Dovecot with MySQL and I can successfully send and receive email using Thunderbird (or other applications) but I must configure using manual settings and not with the ...
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message of "enter at least one recipient" on roundcube, when i have my mail server ok

I recently installed roundcube and tried to use it, I have a web server (were I have that roundcube) and a mail server, with thunderbird in my client machine, I can use all mail users I made witouth ...
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Thunderbird 'wrong site' error for SSL certificate in port 465

I started to use Thunderbird. While sending emails, it gives an error saying that Sending of the message failed. Unable to communicate securely with peer: requested domain name does not match the ...
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Thunderbird doesn't work with postfix/dovecot

My environment: ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS postfix 3.4.13 dovecot 2.3.7.2 Setup is extremely simple. I configured postfix via built-in master as an internet site host. Dovecot (I use it as IMAP server) ...
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Access to server being routed through Russia

For 2 days I have been unable to use Thunderbird on my Ubuntu 18.04 desktop to login to my remote production pop3 server (Postfix, Ubuntu 16.04). Access is denied with message authentication failure; ...
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Thunderbird won't connect to Dovecot server

Since yesterday my Thunderbird client can't connect to my mail server but two other clients I tried have no problem to retrieve email. In my mail log file I have these lines: Nov 26 13:24:46 ...
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Does Dovecot make Foxmail / Thunderbird / Outlook to receive duplicated email?

I've built a Postfix(2.10.1-7.el7.x64.rpm) + Dovecot(2.3.11-build) mail server for my host. It functions well for me at the very beginning. After using for a while, I kept receiving duplicated mails ...
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Why cannot I retrieve emails from Cyrus-imap pop3 server?

When I click "Get Messages" in the Thunderbird client, I cannot retrieve any email from my Cyrus-imap pop3 server. I configured Thunderbird client to use pop3 port 995, Connection security: ...
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How can I set file permissions for new files in Maildir?

So I run debian 10 through VMbox on win10. I am setting up an email server right now and the things that won't let me turn in this quest is that I can't receive mail from the internet though I can ...
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Incoming emails are not visible Postfix

After 3 days I've decided to seek some help with postfix. I can send emails but I don't see the inbound emails! First it was working into Queue, when I tried to fix it to deliver to the right inbox it ...
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Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account

I can't seem to overcome the "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account" error. I'm using Virtualbox (ubuntu, virtual server, virtual workstation, localhost Servername: ...
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Outlook and Thunderbird connecting to IMAP server where mail has been deleted

Have a rebuilt IMAP mail server which is missing emails for a time period. I have tried to search but only found articles about migration. Question is, will outlook and thunderbird etc sync such ...
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Can't send an email via E-mail client for Postfix/Dovecot

On my server with Postfix, Dovecot and Postgresql I can receive email flawsly, but not send them. Via Thunderbird. When trying to send it, I see this in the logs of Postfix: postfix/qmgr[14391]: ...
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Thunderbird on Windows 10 very slow Dovecot

A client have following set up - Dedicated CentOS 6.x server running Postfix + Dovecot 2.0.9 in some data center. 5-6 Windows 10 client computers with latest Thunderbird (IMAP) Some Windows 7 client ...
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Thunderbird sub folders grayed out after migrating to new mail server (postfix,dovecot,docker)

I migrated my old mail server (postfix,dovecot,...) to a new one (same services but with docker). In addition I changed the mail dir of the single account from .../domain.tld/name/Maildir to .../...
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Postfix/Dovecot: Thunderbird can't move to sent

I have a small mail server set up using postfix and dovecot. All is well; I have proper certificates, multiple isolated users, etc. However, when sending a message from Thunderbird I get an error: "...
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dovecot (+sendmail) fails to get email into thunderbird

I ain't able to get emails into my email application (thunderbird). I use 143 Imap to connect which i have tested with telnet and was able to login. But if i select the inbox with telnet it returns "...
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Thunderbird refuses to connect to dovecot with letsencrypt cert

I've set up https://hub.docker.com/r/tvial/docker-mailserver/ with a Letsencrypt certificate and it seems to work. For instance, using openssl, I can connect: openssl s_client -host test-mail....
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SSL Errors in log after thunderbird fails

I am new to operating an email server (postfix + dovecot), and things seem to be working with my preferred email client (mutt), but when I try to use thunderbird, thunderbird fails to connect (and ...
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thunderbird.cfg trust ca root certificate

We have just started using Thunderbird autoconfiguration and find it really useful for automatically creating the company standard imap, smtp and ldap accounts for every user that launches the mail ...
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Need help automating thunderbird deployment with our own root certificate

We are in the process of setting up a self-hosted mail solution in our lab and we're required to be our own CA. The problem we're having is that Thundebird is complaining that our root certificate is ...
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I use postfix, why does my Maildir contain 14,000 files?

As I am about to drop a server, I thought, I should clean up my Maildir directory, just in case. It may contain some emails with password and such so I do not want those to be readable by others. I ...
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("remotely") Managing filters with Horde 3.3.13

I'm using Horde 3.3.13 (which is an old version I know) and uses the filters all the time. I know that thunderbird, for instance, also support filters. Is there a way to synchronize the filters on ...
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354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>, mail not sent [duplicate]

I know, there is already an answer to this smtp-status, but sorry: i don't get it. A Customer of mine sends a big amount of mails and some can't be send cause of: This is the mail system at host ...
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Unable to login to email server that I can telnet to?

I just finished following this tutorial on Digital Ocean for configuring a Dovecot, MySQL, and Postfix email server. I did not follow it to the end. (I didn't install Spam Assassin.) I also used a ...
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Sendmail + Qpopper + Dovecot

this is our configuration, we used Sendmail, Qpopper POP3 for clients as Outlook/Thunderbird, Dovecot as IMAP for Rouncube/SquirrelMail. Dovecot is used only for webmails but i want used IMAP for ...
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Thunderbird STARTTLS fails connecting to Cyrus-IMAP 2.2.13

Today all of a sudden my Icedove mail clients (38.7.0) ceased working using STARTTLS after I renewed the server certificate. Plain text IMAP works fine. The server logs STARTTLS negotiation failed ...
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Cannot connect to Postfix from Outlook or Thunderbird

I've managed to install postfix, it works, when i am logged into my VPS as root I can send and receive mail fine. But the problem is i cannot connect with thunderbird or outlook. I also cannot ...
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How to configure MAILSERVER so that MAIL CLIENTS can automatically find settings

I have a mail server: postfix; dovecot; mysql; ssl cert. That is work. But, how to configure my MAILSERVER so that MAIL CLIENTS (thunderbird, apple mail, outlook) can automatically find settings ?
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Thunderbird roaming profile best practice

I'm running a small windows network (AD) where we use Thunderbird to retrieve mails via IMAP. However, some users have also created local folders in order to archive messages. The goal is that users ...
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AD Domain: Deploy Thunderbird Gmail Settings

In our (small) organization, we are using Google Apps (aka Gmail for business) as an email service. We found Thunderbird to be a good client for Google Apps and wish to keep using it. Now, we are ...
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Autoconfig and Autodiscover records added, Mail Apps still not discovering configuration

I have setup autodiscover and autoconfig configuration over my linux server Auto Discover Auto Config by following this Tutorial but my mailing apps are still not getting the configuration ...
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Postfix Multi Domain Email Going to Spam

I have read over the other post from other users on this site about this topic. I think I see my problem but cannot figure out where to change it. My configuration: RDNS for 107.170.172.XXX: ...
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One email address recognized as spam [duplicate]

Emails send from some of the addresses in one domain are marked as spam by multiple email clients. Since just few addresses within the domain are marked as spam, I do not think it is a domain problem, ...
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Postfix configuration with Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssasin

I am relatively familiar with Debian and have been trying to setup a mail server with this tutorial. Now i have gone through all the comments provided on the website to try route out the problem but ...
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IMAP TLS connection to Dovecot fails

Original title: IMAP connection to Dovecot fails only from Thunderbird I have set up Dovecot with SSL (TLS) on port 993. I can connect with Outlook, PHP SMTP and Android Mail, however Thunderbird ...
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Out-of-date IMAP back-up - restore emails from Client?

The IMAP server just died (Dovecot with Maildirs). The back-up is 1 day old. The missing day of emails is available on the Thunderbird local client. If the IMAP server is restored from backup, on ...
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Lockdown Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows Remote Desktop Services

I've installed Mozilla Thunderbird 31.3.0 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 which has the Remote Desktop Services role. I want to configure the Thunderbird program and set each user's email account etc and ...
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Dovecot SSL Certificate is not accepted

I have certificates issued from StartSSL, which is a trusted authority for certificates, and my websites work with its certificates with no problems and no complaints from all browsers about any trust ...
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SSL_accept error when mail client connect to postfix

I've managed to set up postfix and dovecot with self-signed certificate on my server. I can send and receive email using telnet command there. Now I want to connect to my mail server from a ...
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