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A Secure Connection to the Server Cannot be Established on Microsoft Outlook

When you try to test your IMAP configured account there may be an instance where the following error message appears: A secure connection to the

How to Archive IMAP Emails in Outlook 2016

IMAP mailboxes on web hosting packages will eventually approach the quota limit and become full. Your options would be to either upgrade to the next

Gmailify is not available for this provider

Whilst trying to connect Gmail to a POP3/IMAP Virtualmin system, you might encounter the following issue: “Gmailify is not available for this provider.” The issue

How to gain control over a postfix server by deleting all messages in the queue at once

If your postfix server is running away and it’s chaos because there are 1000s or millions of messages in the queue, your only recourse might

How to delete messages from the Postfix queue using the command line

You can either use Webmin or the command line to delete Postfix messages in the queue. Typically you have to resort to this remedy when

How to count / determine the exact amount of messages in a Postfix mail queue

How do I count the message in Postfix’s mail queue? I’m not really interested in all these posts on the internet that outputs the queue.

How do I set up SPF and DKIM on Linux?

SPF is pretty straight forward if you know how to add TXT DNS records. But the syntax can be confusing. Here is a sample record

Why does it take exactly two minutes for my email to get delivered to Gmail’s server?

Quick answer: Greylisting. Long answer: Read this: https://forum.netcup.de/anwendung/sonstige-anwendungen/p82197-warum-ist-sendmail-so-langsam-php-mail/ or summarised: Greylisting: Greylisting refers to a form of spam control for emails, in which the first

How to view the Dovecot logfile because the service is not starting

About Dovecot Service Not Starting At times the Dovecot service may stop for some or another reason. This article addresses the situation whereby the service