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m0veax
@m0veax@det.social  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

If you are creating a new #mailserver and you need to migrate mailbox files to mail directories. How would you do it?

We are using #dovecot on both machines and want to try to migrate to #mailcow.

#linux #foss

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Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Okay I've used up all other options, so now it's #FollowerPower and #FediMagic :

Would someone here be able to help me fix my broken #Yunohost instance? I've been without email for several weeks now 😓

All apps and admin interface work without problems, but #Dovecot fails to start with a cryptic #SSL error. I've tried the forum of course but so far without success.

Happy to share logs and all. Thanks a million! 🙏

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Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Okay I've used up all other options, so now it's #FollowerPower and #FediMagic :

Would someone here be able to help me fix my broken #Yunohost instance? I've been without email for several weeks now 😓

All apps and admin interface work without problems, but #Dovecot fails to start with a cryptic #SSL error. I've tried the forum of course but so far without success.

Happy to share logs and all. Thanks a million! 🙏

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Phillip Vuchetich
@philvuchetich@bsd.network  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Recently set up email with #opensmtpd #dovecot , and #rspamd on #FreeBSD jails thanks to @mwl@mwl.io book #RYOMS https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms and. @stefano posting a step by step guide https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/
and @BastilleBSD tooling to make jails easier to configure and test.

Previously, I had only used a development setup that included #postfix for internal testing.

I even got my first DMARC report...because the previous mx is still forwarding to my account on a large provider, and i didn't include it in the spf record.

It is currently IMAP only access because I don't need webmail, but I'll probably add that with a #postgresql or #LDAP backend since the separate passwd file would require manual editing, which isn't reasonable if other people need to update passwords.

I am grateful for all the people who made the tools and documentation so that it is possible to host my own email in 2025.

*edited to hopefully fix account links from mobile posting.

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rixx
@rixx@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

because running a mail server wasn’t fun enough: the Dovecot 2.3 → 2.4 update has tons of breaking config changes

(h/t to https://willem.com/blog/2025-06-04_breaking-changes/ for the exhaustive breakdown of the changes)

#mailadmin #dovecot #postfix #sysadmin

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@rixx@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

because running a mail server wasn’t fun enough: the Dovecot 2.3 → 2.4 update has tons of breaking config changes

(h/t to https://willem.com/blog/2025-06-04_breaking-changes/ for the exhaustive breakdown of the changes)

#mailadmin #dovecot #postfix

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Armin Pirkovitsch
@armin@afop.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

That whole #dovecot breaking update (and from what I've seen the unreasonable pro version, at least for small setups) makes me question self-hosting my mail server…
I'm fine with investing time to setup something the first time - but updates (especially not minor) should never be breaking… - neither should they require quiet some time investment imho…
#SelfHosting #mailserver

Armin Pirkovitsch
@armin@afop.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The alternatives courier and cyrus both require me to start from scratch - with no guarantee that this might not happen again - quiet a bad feeling there…
#dovecot #SelfHosting #mailserver #cyrus #courier

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Armin Pirkovitsch
@armin@afop.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

That whole #dovecot breaking update (and from what I've seen the unreasonable pro version, at least for small setups) makes me question self-hosting my mail server…
I'm fine with investing time to setup something the first time - but updates (especially not minor) should never be breaking… - neither should they require quiet some time investment imho…
#SelfHosting #mailserver

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@pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

So I guess I either try courier-imap server or cyrus-imapd. Not sure of the differences between the two or whether one is better than the other.

#dovecot #imap #cyrus #courier #openbsd

Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
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Tom
@pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

So I guess I either try courier-imap server or cyrus-imapd. Not sure of the differences between the two or whether one is better than the other.

#dovecot #imap #cyrus #courier #openbsd

Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
Meme about two red buttons, one marked 'Courier-imap' and the other is 'cyrus-imapd' and our superhero who is the sysadmin running dovecot currently struggling to choose and sweating.
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not Evander Sinque
@FiLiS@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@stefano would have happily paid a reasonable price for the commercial version of #dovecot, but the pricing is only targeted at large ISPs, so everyone with less than 10k mailboxes isn't interesting at all to them. I asked them a few months back just after the deletions happened in their repo. Didn't even ask about #freebsd support.

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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Since Dovecot 2.4 is dropping replication, I'll definitely need to rework my mail servers and those for BSDMail. I think I'll be going back to Cyrus, which I last used over 20 years ago. The problem is my memories have long faded, so it'll be like studying it again from scratch. And that makes me happy, because it'll be like learning something totally new!

Special thanks to @h3artbl33d for the heads up!

#BSDMail #OwnYourData #MailServer #Dovecot

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