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Anyone know how to force #dovecot to rebuild itself after restoring mail from backups? doveadm force-sync/index are useless because dovecot thinks the mailbox doesn't exist. What's even weirder is "doveadm mailbox list" actually shows mailboxes dovecot thinks don't exist. Any ideas?
Anyone know how to force #dovecot to rebuild itself after restoring mail from backups? doveadm force-sync/index are useless because dovecot thinks the mailbox doesn't exist. What's even weirder is "doveadm mailbox list" actually shows mailboxes dovecot thinks don't exist. Any ideas?
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.
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! 🙏
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! 🙏
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.
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)
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)
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
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
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
@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.
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!
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