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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 to make my server email me when there are security updates?

There's obviously a way to check to see when an update is a security update. I often get greeted by a motd that says "there are N security updates." What I'd like to do is have my server email me a ...
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Setting up Mail server on Ubuntu 12.04.2 Server

Based on this article http://iain.it/linux/how-to-install-php-fpm-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-12-04 I've built my LEMP web server. I need one more function to work: mail. It's production server and I can't ...
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ubuntu 12.04 pear not sending emails

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a KVM virtual machine host. I selected SSH and lamp. All work nice. I copy all the files from my old website to this new server to test. All work as expected but the email ...
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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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Preferred mailer in Ubuntu

I am looking for a mail option on my Ubuntu server that I can code into my shell script to trigger a script completion by email. What is the best way to complete this task code wise and mailer wise? ...
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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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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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/etc/postfix/transport missing; what should it look like?

I'm following the mailman guide but couldn't locate /etc/postfix/ so created it as follows: root@dur:~# root@dur:~# cat /etc/postfix/transport dur.bounceme.net mailman: root@dur:~# root@dur:~# ...
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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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Auto reply / auto responder for mail?

I am looking for a (freeware) solution for auto reply/out of office reply on my (web)mail. I have done some googling but haven't found anything for this yet. Does any know what program can do this? ...
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push email / email server tutorial

Does anyone happen to know the current status of push email in the linux world? From my searching at the moment I have seen Z-push ...
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Ubuntu Server, Exim4 and Spam Lists

I have a Ubuntu Server with Exim4 MTA. Everything is running OK. I must integrate Spam Lists, in Exim4. How can I integrate Spam Lists with Exim4? One of the Spam List i want to integrate is from ...
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Lightweight local mail transfer agent

I'd like to have a very lightweight and easy mail transfer agent on my server. The only purpose of this MTA is to buffer outgoing email messages locally and forward them to ISP's mail servers. What ...
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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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Mailbox monitor and scripting

This is something I haven't done before... So not sure what some good resources or a solid starting point would be. What I want to do... is on my Ubuntu Server 10.10 box, I need to setup a mailbox... ...
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How do I set up an email server?

My VPS is running Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to receive email to my domain. How do I easily set up a mail server to do this?
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cant receive external mail on my ubuntu 10.10 64bit server

I've setup my server using the tutorial found here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-10.10-maverick-meerkat-ispconfig-3 Everything is up and running but i can't get my external mail to ...
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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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Why would logwatch (with cron) on stop e-mailing me daily reports?

I have logwatch configured with cron to e-mail me a daily report from my ubuntu server. Occasionally, something happens like the power goes out (which is what just happened actually) or the system ...
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Setting up mailboxes for all users in a group

I have a group called users. It has many users. Now I want every user in this group to have their own mailbox. So, for example, if john is such a user, then john@myserver.com is an e-mail address. ...
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What does a media server need?

I want to buy a new PC to be used as a media server that streams HD movies, music to any wireless device on my network (laptop, desktop, TV, etc.). I was wondering about the PC hardware's ...
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How do I setup sendmail, postfix, or dovecot so that perl can send emails?

Direct Question: I want to enable Perl to send emails. What package(s) should I install to setup a simplistic email server: no need for incoming, only outgoing. I can forward through gmail's SMTP if ...
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By default, what system messages get mailed to root?

I recently installed ssmtp on my server to enable e-mail notifications for a redmine install. While I was verifying everything was setup correctly I got an e-mail notification about a failed cron ...
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How can i use dyndns and send emails from it? [closed]

How can i use dyndns with ubutntu and send emails from it ? I want create a free domain with dyndns.com (mydomain.dyndns-at-home.com) How can I link the domain with ubuntu ? How can I send emails ...
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Remote administration of a server?

I'm going to install a ubuntu server to provide email, ftp and maybe webserver services too. I dont want to install a gui for the server, but I'd like to administrate it remotely. I was thinking in ...
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How to set up an e-mail whitelist

My home network is set up as follows: PCs -> Wired Network ---| |--- Server --- Internet PCs -> Wireless Network ---| The server runs the fetchmail, postfix and ...