Questions tagged [thunderbird]
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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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Recovering deleted emails on IMAP server with Thunderbird
I have an IMAP mail server and use Thunderbird as my client. I didn't understand the sychronization of client-server using IMAP vs POP. My IMAP server was filling up, so I logged onto the server and ...
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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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Migrate IMAP account between providers - client access only
I have an IMAP E-Mail account with my old provider.
I have a new, empty IMAP account with the new provider.
Is there a tool or Thunderbird to migrate the E-Mail data from one account to another? I'm ...
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Thunderbird not trusting certificate signed with self-signed authority
I have generated a self-signed certificate authority using mydomain.org as the common name.
I imported the public certificate using Thunderbird's certificate manager under the "Authorities" tab. So ...
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Getting contact list from IMAP server
I want to update my local Thunderbird address book with a list of valid email addresses on an IMAP server. I'm not that familiar with IMAP, does it allow this? If so, could someone point me to an ...
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How to configure postfix and dovecot so that thunderbird can automatically find settings
Our mailserver is a Ubuntu Server box with a Postfix/Dovecot combination. We enabled starttls with a correct certificate and everything is working ok.
A lot of our users are using Thunderbird for ...
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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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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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Is there a way to make encryption default per contact in Thunderbird?
I administer several computers that have Thunderbird installed. I know Thunderbird has an option to require all email to be encrypted. However, I would like a way to allow unencrypted email normally,...
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Thunderbird - Login Script to create user and email account
Is there anything out there that will let me script via active directory and login scripts the creation of a thunderbird user profile and associated email account?
I looked to do this in Outlook 2010, ...
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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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How to organise Maildir subdirectories
I have a mailserver:
Postfix for transfer
Dovecot/IMAP for reading
Maildir for storage
Thunderbird as main supported client (but of course, I want to be compatible with all)
Roundcube for webmail ...
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getting Thunderbird rescan imap folder
Since I got an external program (imapfilter) modifying my imap folder, thunderbird keeps loosing track of new messages. Messages are moved upon arrival in sub-folders, making Thunderbird unable keep ...
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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 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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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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Thunderbird msi installer package
I am in need of a thunderbird msi (Microsoft Installer) package which can be deployed via group policies using Microsoft ActiveDirectory.
I am very pleased with the Firefox packaged provided by ...
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Does enigmail for thunderbird encrypt title of message
From what I've read, encrypting an email with pgp/mime with thunderbird+enigmail will encrypt the entire message including attachments.
Does this also include the message subject title? If not, is ...
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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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Ubuntu server postfix + dovecot authentication, wrong password
I am trying to setup basic e-mail server just for me on my Ubuntu 12.04 following these guides.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
I executed ...
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custom (preconfigured) installer for Firefox and Thunderbird
I want to prepare a custom installer of Thunderbird and Firefox, which will come preconfigured with the address book, proxy settings etc.
I found some forum topics on the issue:
here
and here,
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Fast search for IMAP?
I have an IMAP account with over 10 years' worth of emails in it, and I'd like to be able to search it quickly from my Windows machine. I'm looking for something that will give me an indexed search ...
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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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Active Directory: Thunderbird LDAP autocompletion not working with Kerberos auth
The Problem:
I'm trying to configure an LDAP mail autocompletion - a built-in functionality of Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.5 @ Windows 7 x64 in 2008R2 domain environment. The OS is a fresh, out-of-the-...
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Thunderbird disconnecting from Dovecot
I'm managing a Dovecot POP3 server which serves large number of users. Some of these users are in remote locations. I'm getting reports about users whose Thunderbird clients show the number of mails ...
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Dovecot not serving old migrated emails for some clients
I have just migrated my emails to a new mail server. The old and the new server had the exact same setup using MailDir with fetchmail, procmail and dovecot. The configurations of those three ...
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Self-signed certificates for thunderbird
I want to set self-signed certificates in thunderbird but got some warnings when I try to sent message:
Unable to put a digital signature. Make sure that the certificates specified in the account ...
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Migrate From Groupwise to Thunderbird
I have successfully set up sending and receiving email in the Thunderbird for my Groupwise account. But, I am missing the feature that suggests contacts when I start typing their name in the To field (...
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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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IMAP Email issue - Not logging in with correct password [closed]
A little while ago, my email stopped working all of a sudden. The email is hosted on a cPanel server, and it seems to be just my accounts (I have 2 different emails, on 2 domains that are both not ...
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mutt, smime, decrypt with one of two different keys
This is an odd one.
We want to have an encrypted e-mail list. There are a few ways to do this, but in the interim what we've done is created a public/private keypair via openssl for our e-mail list (...
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Cyrus: In practical terms, how do end users administer their shared mailboxes?
Let's say we have four customer service reps: Billy, Bob, Joe, and Tom. Tom is the department manager. There's a shared Customer Service mailbox on the Cyrus server that they all have access to. Tom, ...
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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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How to safely move mailbox to another server?
I have a hosting for my client on a shared server (website, domain and mailboxes) and I want to change the provider and move everything to another server. Moving the website is as easy as copying the ...
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Verify IMAP/POP3 connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
I wanted to fully explore IMAP connections from the command line, if I can connect via Thunderbird, then I should be able to via telnet?!
Microsoft detail IMAP login as :-
LOGIN NTDOMAIN/NTACCOUNT/...
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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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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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Exchange 2003 SMTP SSL and various email clients
This Exchange 2003 server sits behind a firewall with a virtual SMTP server listening on port 465 and attached an SSL certificate from Comodo to the virtual server. However, when trying to send from ...
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How does Thunderbird discover e-mail servers?
We are deploying some test e-mail servers with the subdomain mail (i.e., mail.example.com). Now, it seems that Thunderbird discovers that e-mail server when we are configuring e-mail.
How does ...
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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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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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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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Exim after Thunderbird update: "Could not negotiate a supported cipher suite" [closed]
Recently, after I installed updates on my Kubuntu 14.04. system and a new version of thunderbird was installed, I could not send emails any more. It prompts:
Sending of message failed. The message ...
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Thunderbird doesn't show folders on a new Dovecot install
I set up a new mailserver with postfix and Dovecot some days ago, everything is working except for Thunderbird not showing any folders.
Evolution shows me all folders.
I migrated from a Courier ...
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Cleaning Thunderbird Inbox of old viruses
I am running BitDefender and it seems to be picking up stuff that Norton never mentioned. The problem is that BD reports a number of old viruses in my inbox that it says it can't disinfect because ...
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Courier-IMAP + Thunderbird (+ Roundcube) subscription woes
So we have a mail system built on postfix-courier-saslauthd with unix users and maildirs and TONS of shared folders. Both T'bird (2.0.0.21) and Roundcube exhibits weird symptoms with subscriptions.
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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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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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