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Postfix won't receive email from Gmail

I know there are quite a few threads already regarding Postfix not receiving external emails. However, my problem is for Gmail exclusively. Postfix on my server receives email from many providers such ...
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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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Postfix SMTP server: Emails not being queued for retry when greylisted [submission by email clients]

I have recently configured my own postfix server, however there is one thing left that's stumping me. When sending emails via thunderbird to a server with greylisting enabled, I am instantly ...
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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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Change postfix name from “localhost” to something meaningful?

I run postfix my servers to allow websites to send email. I'm using it as a drop-in for sendmail proper. When an email is sent the HELO string seems to contain localhost. This wouldn't be a problem ...
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Configure 'mail' command to send external email when servers domain name is used

I have postfix and mail installed on my server. The following command works fine $mail aj@xyz.com But if I use this command $mail aj@mydomain.com The system thinks I am trying to send a ...
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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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Postfix working with home network but not with USB 3G dongle

Does postfix with php's mail command get configured during installation based on the network connection? I am asking this because I installed it when I was connected to my home network. and I can ...
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How to disable Postfix SPF from rejecting mail?

I am having an issue with Postfix and SPF that I can't seem to figure out. I have installed SPF for Postfix using the guide on this link (postfix-policyd-spf-perl). However, I don't want Postfix or ...
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Postfix Dovecot LDAP: user not found in local recipient table

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 Server and have installed Postfix and Dovecot. I have an external LDAP Server for the auth. I can receive Emails with IMAP, but when I try to send an Email I get the following ...
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Ubuntu mailing services with Magento [closed]

I'm having some issues with sending emails out from Magento. I'm very new to Ubuntu and had been playing with it for the past 2 days. Is there anything I need to do to allow my mail to be sent out? I ...
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how to config postfix when send email need login?

how to config postfix when send email need login? I have config postfix server to send email to my customers. I found postfix can send mail without login. I doubt it might be used for other ones send ...
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How do I fake an MX record for a domain?

I'm testing two mail servers that live on two (virtual) machines with made up domain names for emails. When one of the servers needs to send an email to the other one, it seemingly performs a DNS ...
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What should be the path for storing Maildir e-mails?

Am I storing e-mails to the correct path? Working from the dovecot-postfix package I'm able to deliver e-mails to myself as so: thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... ...
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How to configure apache / php / postfix website emails when using vhosts?

I have a LAMP webserver configured to serve multiple websites. Each virtual host has various PHP applications, mainly Wordpress. When users sign up to the Wordpress sites, email is sent by PHP ...
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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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Integrating Postfix and Mailman

I've gone through the guide for mailman with some difficulty, but seem to be nearly there. I'm able to navigate to the mailman web GUI, create lists and subscribe. I just subscribe my local FQDN, so ...
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cannot send mail to localhost with postfix: Temporary lookup failure

I removed postfix, tried Apache James, removed James, and now cannot get postfix working again: to my knowledge, I'm using postfix correctly as so: thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ telnet localhost 25 ...
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How to use postfix's pipe to auto-reply for non-existing accounts

Consider the following scenario: 1) Somebody (somebody@somewhere.net) sends an e-mail to address-<id>@myhost.com where <id> is an arbitrary number. address-<id> is not an existing ...
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Mail Delivery System and GMAIL error

After following the following tutorial: http://blog.seeit.org/2010/08/php-mail-with-ubuntu-desktop-and-gmail/ in order to send email through Gmail. I get the following error: Mail Delivery System ...
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is Postfix to send or receive email?

A bit confused, is postfix to receive or send email? I am using a 3rd party to send email, and just need to receive email and was wondering if postfix is what I should be researching.
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cannot receive email on ubuntu email server

I setup the email server. I am able to send out mail but when I try to receive mail by sending an email to myself from another email, it doesn't work. The other email I receive a mailer-daemon and ...
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How to change Helo Address?

Right now my Helo Address = localhost (helo=localhost). Is it better to set this to my server's domain name? If so, how do I change it? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and Postfix. Thanks.
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Setup DKIM (DomainKeys) for Ubuntu, Postfix and Mailman

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Postfix and Mailman. I want to set up DKIM. (DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM is the successor to Yahoo's "DomainKeys". It incorporate's Cisco's Identified Mail). ...
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How to setup postfix for multiple domains

I have multiple domains and I want to install postfix to send emails only. How can I set it up on my vps?
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How to get Postfix to send/forward/relay to a sub-domain located on another server?

I have a quick question. How do I setup postfix to send an email to another server (Exchange Server) when sending to an email address that has a sub-domain of our main server. For example, say our ...
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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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Import emails from hard disk image?

My old Pentium 3 email server just died on me. Is it possible import all my emails that I had? I was running postfix and the cyrus IMAP server. I can chroot to the hard drive to run any commands if ...
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Where are all those emails stored in postfix, location of storage of emails so that I could backup?

I am a newbie in linux. Recently, I have installed postfix MTA in xubuntu. I just want to know where are all the emails stored in my postfix server.
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Where are all the emails stored in postfix?

I am a newbie in linux. Recently, I have installed postfix MTA in xubuntu. I just want to know where are all the emails stored in my postfix server. Thanks in advance.
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Adding a new drive for email server

I have installed email server with "dovecot, postfix, postfixadmin" etc. Now I mounted new driver. All my mails are in folder /home/vmail/ user is: vmail uid=5000 gid=500. I like to move those files ...
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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. ...