# Latest

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## [Moving to a new box](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/moving-to-a-new-box/16195)

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**Author:** [@jwstekelenburg](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/jwstekelenburg)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 8, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/moving-to-a-new-box/16195 "2026-01-08T16:16:58Z")

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hello. I am trying to move to a new box running at a different VPS provider. I spun up a fresh MIAB instance, but i am unable to restore the backup I made. First duplicity complains /home/user-data is not empty, and when…

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## [Really old email server and really old list server](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/really-old-email-server-and-really-old-list-server/16200)

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**Author:** [@Keith\_Rettig](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Keith_Rettig)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/really-old-email-server-and-really-old-list-server/16200 "2026-01-06T19:20:15Z")

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Is there a way to allow my really old list server and my really old secondary mail server to access MIaB without using SLS or TLS but continue not allowing any other server to do so? Yes, that is how old they are; but t…

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## [FYI missing \_mta-sts causes gmail to block emails from noreply@domain.tld](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/fyi-missing-mta-sts-causes-gmail-to-block-emails-from-noreply-domain-tld/16198)

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**Author:** [@umauma](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/umauma)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 4, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/fyi-missing-mta-sts-causes-gmail-to-block-emails-from-noreply-domain-tld/16198 "2026-01-04T08:36:48Z")

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I just realized that some of my newer domains with namecheap were missing \_mta-sts entries for a reason I still have to investigate. But this causes Gmail to block all my email if they are originating from noreply@domai…

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## [Sending messages to external recipient fail: SASL LOGIN authentication failed](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/sending-messages-to-external-recipient-fail-sasl-login-authentication-failed/11716)

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**Author:** [@jonban](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/jonban)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/sending-messages-to-external-recipient-fail-sasl-login-authentication-failed/11716 "2024-03-28T16:09:00Z")

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Since March 23, messages to external recipients remain in the postfix queue (messages to addresses hosted on my box are ok). My box: MIAB v67 Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on a Contabo VPS DNS resolution works I rerun the MIAB…

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## [Should I rely on Nextcloud file manager?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/should-i-rely-on-nextcloud-file-manager/8128)

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**Author:** [@romainrffallet](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/romainrffallet)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/should-i-rely-on-nextcloud-file-manager/8128 "2025-12-31T09:59:34Z")

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Mailinabox provides a file manager through Nextcloud. I saw that non-supported Nextcloud extensions were disabled. This is not the case of the file manager. Is the file manager feature officially supported by Mailinabo…

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## [Roundcube Vulnerability Update to 1.6.12](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/roundcube-vulnerability-update-to-1-6-12/16189)

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**Author:** [@themew](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/themew)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/roundcube-vulnerability-update-to-1-6-12/16189 "2025-12-28T20:21:16Z")

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Just checking to see if this is something we should consider updating due to the vulnerability in the current version of Roundcube installed by MIAB? https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68461

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## [Puck.nether.net Internal Server Error](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/puck-nether-net-internal-server-error/16089)

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**Author:** [@rowie](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/rowie)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/puck-nether-net-internal-server-error/16089 "2025-12-28T13:50:01Z")

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Again … and no response from the admin. I have send him 3 mail and nothing What happend with this guy? I would pay for a good service but this site is not normal. Hope the guy is well and not death as his login site …

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## [Upgrade Anxiety - Terrified of upgrading in fear of messing it](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/upgrade-anxiety-terrified-of-upgrading-in-fear-of-messing-it/16170)

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**Author:** [@umauma](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/umauma)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/upgrade-anxiety-terrified-of-upgrading-in-fear-of-messing-it/16170 "2025-12-28T13:38:55Z")

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I have upgrade anxiety because I believe it won’t go as smoothly, and I’ll end up spending a weekend or two or three or god knows what. Partially, it’s coming from not being able to understand what the install script do…

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## [Can't Upgrade from v71a to v73, It's Stuck at v71a](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/cant-upgrade-from-v71a-to-v73-its-stuck-at-v71a/16172)

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**Author:** [@stn](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/stn)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 11, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/cant-upgrade-from-v71a-to-v73-its-stuck-at-v71a/16172 "2025-12-11T00:25:05Z")

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NOTE: I have searched for similar topics or problems and nothing aligned so: I have MIAB v71a and when I login via SSH and run sudo mailinabox it goes through all the upgrade steps successfully, but when I reboot AND/OR …

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## [Mail-In-A-Box Behind Nginx Reverse Proxy](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-in-a-box-behind-nginx-reverse-proxy/16169)

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**Author:** [@chin\_kmtm](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/chin_kmtm)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-in-a-box-behind-nginx-reverse-proxy/16169 "2025-12-08T10:24:43Z")

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Hi All, I don’t know this scenario is supported by the Mail-In-A-Box development team. But I hope this is very much useful/helpful for the end user if it can run behind a reverse proxy scenario. I have my setup as foll…

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## [Issues with glue records and resolving ip. However, believe they are set correctly](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/issues-with-glue-records-and-resolving-ip-however-believe-they-are-set-correctly/16166)

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**Author:** [@peternemser](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/peternemser)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/issues-with-glue-records-and-resolving-ip-however-believe-they-are-set-correctly/16166 "2025-12-06T22:43:46Z")

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I am having issues with my MIAB. My MIAB is all up to date with the latest versions. I I am 100% my configs are correct at gandi. Any ideas or suggestions? I did have a user recently complain of issues.

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## [\`named\` returning a wrong IP](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165)

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**Author:** [@miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/miaber)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165 "2025-12-04T20:24:33Z")

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I configured my.example.com under Custom DNS to point to another server A But running dig my.example.com @localhost on MIAB shows MIAB’s IP address B, which is incorrect Running dig ... elsewhere also showed the incorre…

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## [Error MTA-STS policy is missing: STSFetchResult.NONE](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/error-mta-sts-policy-is-missing-stsfetchresult-none/16160)

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**Author:** [@Gideon-IT-UK](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Gideon-IT-UK)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/error-mta-sts-policy-is-missing-stsfetchresult-none/16160 "2025-12-01T23:44:55Z")

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I’m getting this error suddenly on all my domains. MTA-STS policy is missing: STSFetchResult.NONE I’ve done a sudo mailinaboxand it’s still showing. Any ideas? It was fine a a week or so ago. My TLS certs have all…

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## [API Calls for User Usage?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/api-calls-for-user-usage/16161)

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**Author:** [@Kyle1090](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Kyle1090)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/api-calls-for-user-usage/16161 "2025-12-01T15:08:31Z")

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Hi all, Looking to find a way to use the api calls to get user send and receive stats. I like the email that MIAB sends, however, would like to pull the same data, at any given time. I know about munin page to get a o…

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## [Able to send mail via SMTP, but not roundcube](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/able-to-send-mail-via-smtp-but-not-roundcube/16142)

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**Author:** [@miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/miaber)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/able-to-send-mail-via-smtp-but-not-roundcube/16142 "2025-11-20T07:53:07Z")

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My mail in a box server is able to receive submissions and send mails out via SMTP, but in roundcube, I keep getting this 451 Failed to add recipient error when adding any recipient. The redacted part is my email add…

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## [Parallel processing for SpamAssassin (Speed for bulk mail proccesing)](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/parallel-processing-for-spamassassin-speed-for-bulk-mail-proccesing/16120)

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**Author:** [@robertpopa22](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/robertpopa22)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/parallel-processing-for-spamassassin-speed-for-bulk-mail-proccesing/16120 "2025-11-14T10:07:46Z")

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A long standing issue with speed for multiple mail processing was the linear feed to spamassassin sa-learn from /usr/local/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh Default instalation of MaiB for /usr/local/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh is: cat\<&0…

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## [Ipv6 reverse DNS “timeout” in System Status whats the best way to handle this?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ipv6-reverse-dns-timeout-in-system-status-whats-the-best-way-to-handle-this/16119)

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**Author:** [@Nomak](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Nomak)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ipv6-reverse-dns-timeout-in-system-status-whats-the-best-way-to-handle-this/16119 "2025-11-14T10:04:06Z")

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Hi everyone, I’ve got a question about an odd behavior in System Status related to IPv6 reverse DNS. I have two MIAB servers running for about a week now. Both are on clean VPS instances with dual-stack (IPv4 + IPv6). …

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## [How do I get rid of "Something went wrong sorry" and get Custom DNS back? \[RESOLVED\]](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-do-i-get-rid-of-something-went-wrong-sorry-and-get-custom-dns-back-resolved/8398)

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**Author:** [@thewoose](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/thewoose)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-do-i-get-rid-of-something-went-wrong-sorry-and-get-custom-dns-back-resolved/8398 "2025-11-13T15:20:48Z")

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Hi, I have installed numerous MiAB’s over the years and they have always worked well. But in the last year or so the insistent “Something went wrong, Sorry!” message keeps coming up when I go to the Custom DNS page. I…

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## [LDAP connection: Fatal: Couldn't connect to auth socket](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ldap-connection-fatal-couldnt-connect-to-auth-socket/16118)

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**Author:** [@stta](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/stta)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ldap-connection-fatal-couldnt-connect-to-auth-socket/16118 "2025-11-13T09:33:03Z")

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Hello, first, I want to say thank you that I can join to this forum. I’m trying to establish an LDAPS connection to my Active Directory and use AD authentication for Roundcube. The reason is that I want to replace MS E…

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## [Mail-in-a-Box Installation error](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-in-a-box-installation-error/16085)

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**Author:** [@chin\_kmtm](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/chin_kmtm)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-in-a-box-installation-error/16085 "2025-11-13T04:37:17Z")

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Hi, today 08th Nov. 25, I tried to install Mail-in-a-Box on fresh ubuntu 22.04 server using the installation command from the home page. But installation stuck showing error, Failed: add-apt-repository -y ppa:duplicity-…

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## [System status check](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/system-status-check/16046)

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**Author:** [@chin\_kmtm](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/chin_kmtm)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/system-status-check/16046 "2025-11-13T04:27:03Z")

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I’m wondering why my mail in a box status page says, Public DNS (nsd4) is not running (port 53). :heavy\_multiplication\_x: Incoming Mail (SMTP/postfix) is running but is not publicly accessible at 123.231.14.105:25. …

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## [How do I make MiaB use my new IPv6 address?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-do-i-make-miab-use-my-new-ipv6-address/7095)

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**Author:** [@Fenhl](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Fenhl)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-do-i-make-miab-use-my-new-ipv6-address/7095 "2025-11-10T23:53:20Z")

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I have Mail-in-a-Box running on a Linode VPS. Got assigned an IPv6 /64 subnet so I can meet Spamhaus’s requirements to get unblocked, and followed https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/linode-network/linux-static-ip-con…

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## [Custom DNS' dynamic setup not resolving](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/custom-dns-dynamic-setup-not-resolving/16064)

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**Author:** [@pulloh](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/pulloh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/custom-dns-dynamic-setup-not-resolving/16064 "2025-11-06T18:51:58Z")

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I have a MIAB setup that uses the custom DNS. I have a few subdomains that require the dynamic DNS feature that comes with MIAB’s custom domains. For example, curl -X PUT --user me@box.example.com:yourpassword https://bo…

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## [Duplicity error \[nov 2025\]](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/duplicity-error-nov-2025/16061)

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**Author:** [@pdwalker](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/pdwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/duplicity-error-nov-2025/16061 "2025-11-05T17:55:49Z")

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After a recent apt-update, duplicity no longer functions for me. Doing a system check gets the following error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'duplicity.\_\_main\_\_'" Edit: do not use this fix. Use the fix from th…

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## [Moving back from Power Mail-in-a-Box to the official version](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/moving-back-from-power-mail-in-a-box-to-the-official-version/12714)

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**Author:** [@Winux](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Winux)\
**Replies:** 34\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/moving-back-from-power-mail-in-a-box-to-the-official-version/12714 "2025-10-31T05:40:20Z")

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Hey, We have been using Power Mail-in-a-Box for some time now because the official version wasn’t supporting Debian. As we upgraded our Infrastructure we are no longer limited to using Debian, and also Power Mail-in-a-B…

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## [Using Collabora with MIAB NextCloud?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/using-collabora-with-miab-nextcloud/2760)

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**Author:** [@vuelto](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/vuelto)\
**Replies:** 25\
**Last updated:** [October 29, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/using-collabora-with-miab-nextcloud/2760 "2025-10-29T19:12:50Z")

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If you haven’t heard of Collabora it is a “LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing”. It looks like exactly what I want for editing my NextCloud docs on MIAB. Has anyone gone through this? I’ve…

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## [Definitive method to prevent mail from an address going to Spam?](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/definitive-method-to-prevent-mail-from-an-address-going-to-spam/16044)

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**Author:** [@cdllm](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/cdllm)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/definitive-method-to-prevent-mail-from-an-address-going-to-spam/16044 "2025-10-26T22:41:10Z")

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Is there a definitive way to prevent mail from a specific address from ever going to Spam? Is constantly moving messages from Spam to Inbox and hoping Spamassassin hopefully figures it out the only way? I’ve been a happ…

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## [HTTP 500 error when installing v73 due to lacking IPv6](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/http-500-error-when-installing-v73-due-to-lacking-ipv6/16043)

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**Author:** [@miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/miaber)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/http-500-error-when-installing-v73-due-to-lacking-ipv6/16043 "2025-10-26T16:48:52Z")

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I’m on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 machine by racknerd and I keep getting this HTTP 500 error after entering my password the 2nd time. It would not be an issue except that the install script terminated and is incomplete, n…

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## [Dovecot logging is broken](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/dovecot-logging-is-broken/16037)

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**Author:** [@netmaster48](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/netmaster48)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/dovecot-logging-is-broken/16037 "2025-10-23T09:28:45Z")

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As I understand postfix in MIAB using rsyslog and it’s rotate mechanism. Dovecot in other hand write logs directly to /var/log/mail.log (log\_path=/var/log/mail.log) and if logs rotate, will continue writing logs to /var…

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## [Mail dropped after opendkim "failed to parse authentication-results: header field"](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-dropped-after-opendkim-failed-to-parse-authentication-results-header-field/16007)

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**Author:** [@Agathos](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Agathos)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/mail-dropped-after-opendkim-failed-to-parse-authentication-results-header-field/16007 "2025-10-16T08:02:33Z")

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Sometimes mail from outlook servers is dropped and not delivered/discarded by MIAB/DKIM “lmtp … discard action”, but I can’t find out why. How can I let these mails be delivered instead of them being discarded? Search o…

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