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Postfix is running and can already send and receive mail on the server itself, so why do you still need Dovecot for external clients like Thunderbird or a phone?
A client can reach IMAP on port 143 with no encryption at all, yet port 993 refuses any unencrypted connection — what accounts for that difference?
Dovecot's config files run to 1,500-1,800 lines yet almost none of them do anything — how do you see just the settings that actually deviate from the defaults?
Dovecot auto-detects mailboxes and it worked in testing, so why is it still recommended to set mail_location explicitly in 10-mail.conf?
A macOS Mail user keeps hitting 'Maximum number of connections from user and IP exceeded' against your Dovecot server — what limit is being tripped and how do you raise it?
When you set up a mail account against a plain Dovecot server, where do the username and password actually come from?