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Postfix SMTP not available from external network

I'm trying to setup an SMTP server using Postfix. I already have virtual mailboxes and a Dovecot IMAP server running (and working). I can mail my@ema.il and see the mail coming in with an IMAP client. ...
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Sendmail relaying email through A record not MX

I have a Ubuntu server, running sendmail (until this morning it was running postfix, but I moved to sendmail to eliminate the possibility of my postfix configuration tweaks being the cause of this ...
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How can I change EXIM4 config from warn on no reverse DNS to actively rejecting mails with no reverse DNS

By default EXIM4 only warns about mails with no reverse DNS. I need to block and actively reject mail which has no reverse DNS. I am willing to accept that it's possible that some legit mail will be ...
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SASL authentication failure: no secret in database

I have a VPS with Plesk Panel on Ubuntu server 10.04. Everything was set up and working perfectly. Only change I made to the mail configuration was to allow submission port 587. Everything was still ...
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Unity Mail handling hotmail accounts

I've configured Unity Mail so it monitors 1 hotmail email accounts. It don't correctly notifies me about new messages. Is there a possibility of configuring Unity Mail so it can handle hotmail ...
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cannot start postfix

I am having issues starting postfix. I have configured postfix several times now and cannot get it to stay started. Here is my main.cf: smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no ...
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Mail server configuration for a home user?

Okay I'm totally lost with mail server configurations. I use getmail and mbsync to receive email and mutt's built-in SMTP support to send email; I use the same procedure for both Gmail (I rarely use ...
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MailServer that doesn't store any data outside database?

Question: Is there any OpenSource (MIT/BSD/LGPL license) mail server that doesn't store any of its data (except database connection string/sql query scripts) outside a database ? I looked at ...
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Need to send a simple .txt file to a couple email addresses

ive been trying to get this to work all night. mutt doesnt seem to work and I cant install mail or mailx packages because apt-get gives me errors about them not having installation candidate. What I ...
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Setting permissions to let postfix and PHP work in the same folder

I am trying to achieve something simple, but permissions are making it very difficult. Here is what I expect: Postfix should drop all incoming e-mail from the xx domain (catchall) into the ...
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Thunderbird won't open after a fresh install of 12.04, how to fix?

When I try to open Thunderbird, it opens for 1 second and then force close. I executed via terminal and I saw this: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: symbol lookup error: ...
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Sending mail without domain name

We have a server, we are using this for backups and other cronjobs. I would like to send mail to the users when one of their cronjobs or backups has ended. Is it possible this if I don't have a domain ...
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Access Exchange 2003 mailbox from Terminal

How do I check an Exchange mailbox for new mail from the command line? I'm at a complete loss here.
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Run default mail client

To run the default web browser or terminal there are commands like x-www-browser and x-terminal-emulator. There are other alternatives for common programs. Is there a similar command to run the ...
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Why am I not able to send an email from command line

This is what I did (as per a few discussions on this website) mail -s "hi" addressee@email.xyz < test.txt Where text.txt has the message. I checked to see if mail did exist and it does at ...
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Mailing list software with easy to use GUI

I'm looking for an easy to use making list program so, I can use my existing email to send to all the people on my list. I want to have it so I can send it with out them seeing each others email ...
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Is there any way to set the startup page in Thunderbird to be the latest mail instead of some link?

Is there any way to set the startup page in Thunderbird to be the latest mail instead of some link?
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Postfix incoming mail from internet [closed]

i have a postfix mail server in my ubuntu server. i can able to send mail to other mail service like gmail, yahoo etc. But when i try to send mail from gmail to my domain. i dont get any error like ...
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How do you setup system email to send to a Gmail account?

Often when I'm working on a terminal, I'll see the "you have new mail in..." message. I know I can see this mail by looking in my system's mail folder, but this is inconvenient. Also, if the message ...
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Which mailx package should I install for Nagios?

I'm following the Nagios Ubuntu quickstart instructions. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and installing Nagios 3.2.3. At the bottom of the docs it says I need to install the mailx and postfix packages. ...