Questions related to email setup and troubleshooting. Most questions can be tagged with your email client (such as "thunderbird" or "evolution")
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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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Why does Thunderbird auto-response send inappropriate messages and attachments?
Hi I tried to set up an automated response in my message filters (in Thunderbird). It worked but as well as responding to new emails it also sent out a response to various contacts in my inbox ...
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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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Hotmail inbox deleted after setting up evolution
I recently set up my hotmail account on evolution. I have been using thunderbird but just to see how is evolution I did so. But now when I log in to http://hotmail.com, all my emails in my inbox have ...
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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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sendmail doesn't send email to specific domain email address
We have ubuntu 12.04 server and installed sendmail to send mails from this server.
Problem:
There is some strange issue on mail server. Somehow, server not able to send email to xxx@ayolla.com
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How to send an email when laptop battery is low?
Is it possible to send an email to myself when the laptop is on low battery power?
I'm always online with my Android phone, but not always in front of the laptop, and sometimes I'm missing the ...
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msmtp hangs instead of delivering the message
I'm trying to configure msmtp (on Ubuntu 12.04). When I'm trying to send an email, it "hangs" (well, ctrl-c aborts it, so it's not really a hang, but it seems not to do anything anyway). Here's my ...
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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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Geary Mail keeps crashing in ubuntu 12.10? [closed]
Every time I open geary it stays open for a few seconds and then crashes. How can I fix this?
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Migrating to full Ubuntu after dual installation on WinXP
I previously ran 12.04 alongside WinXP to see how it performed on my mom's older laptop. i also migrated her email to Thunderbird. If I now convert from dual WinXP/Ubuntu to only run Ubuntu will ...
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install dbmail or other e-mail database
I'm starting to use ruby to parse and store e-mails, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. I have a subset of e-mails, all in one account stored locally, which I would like to keep in a database.
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How can I make Seamonkey the default Web and E-Mail client in Precise?
I've installed Seamonkey 2.14.1 via Ubuntuzilla, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it the default Mail and Web clients. If I click on a web link in the Seamonkey News or Mail reader it ...
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Evolution calender not opening
I installed evolution calendar from the software center. But the icon is not showing up in the apps menu in the dash. I've tried restarting after installing but its not coming.
Software centre : ...
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How to delete an attachment in an email in Evolution?
I would like to delete attachments from the email in the email client Evolution (at the moment 3.2.3, Ubuntu 12.04), so my the size of the IMAP-folders will not be bloated and can be reduced.
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How do I make Thunderbird 17.0 stop notifying me with junk mail?
I use a few email accounts with one dedicated to junk and spam. Thunderbird is auto tagging them as spam/junk, but still displays them as unread mail. It's not wrong, but it makes the pop up and ...
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X-notifier doesn't work in Chromium Browser
It just keeps checking in vain.
Also cannot import or export data, but get this error
I use the latest versions of both in Lubuntu 12.04.
In Google Chrome it works.
What could it be the ...
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Thunderbird mail-Outlook 11.10
I want to use Thunderbird mail, but can I use my outlook e-mail?
It's not that urgent, but I want to use it.
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I can send email but, I can't receive mail
I can send email, but I can't receive email. No error messages. Just nothing in the "In box". Can anybody helpme fix this problem?
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Gmail-like replacement for Thunderbird
I am looking for an e-mail client for Ubuntu 10.04-12.04 which would look like Gmail and would replace my current Thunderbird configuration. I have no problems with the efficiency or reliability of ...
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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 decent email client would you recommend (at least better than Thunderbird)?
I've used Thunderbird for years.
I keep a huge number of emails. I move them to folders to organize or archive them, but I don't delete anything so I have hundreds of thousands of messages.
I like ...
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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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Mail with “3 incorrect password attempts” after starting app with sudo
A strange thing: Always after I start an application which runs with root permissions (e.g. Synaptic), I get a mail titled SECURITY information for [hostname] telling me about "3 incorrect password ...
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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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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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Pulling the data out of an MSG file
I got an email which I believe is a forward from other guy. The email has an attached MSG file which I cannot open with Thunderbird.
Reading the MSG file with Emacs, I see there is a segment which ...
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Evolution cannot open address book? It also can no longer sync with google contacts. 12.10 [closed]
When I press the contacts button it gives me the following error message
Unable to open address book
This address book cannot be opened. This either means that an incorrect URI was entered, ...
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“Sender address rejected” error in Evolution
I get this error when trying to send emails. It receives emails just fine, the reported error was:
RCPT TO "RECEIVER" failed: "SENDER": Sender address rejected: not logged in".
Where "RECEIVER" is ...
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How can I downgrade my version of Evolution to the one used in Ubuntu 11.04? [closed]
I just upgraded, and like a few other users I had issues with Evolution email after the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 and then 12.04. I know to make backups, but in this case I stupidly didn't think ...
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Lost all email and accounts in thunderbird
Open up Thunderbird at system startup and found the wizard to create email?
There are not any of the accounts I had, no mail whatsoever
This happens to me very frequently, and thus I consider it one ...
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Thunderbird suddenly became my default email client
When I had Ubuntu 11.10 I had the Google email client and was happy with it. Now, with 12.04, I have suddenly found that Thunderbird has become default and I don't like it. Why did it suddenly get ...
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Several problems using Hotmail in Firefox using 12.04
After some initial problems we gained access to my Hotmail account. When we clicked on a download file link, for an attachment nothing happens. File print doesn't work either.
Saw some older possible ...
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Evolution email forgets all settings after reboot
My Evolution email client keeps forgetting all settings after a reboot or even a logout/login.
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a new laptop. To move my Evolution settings and email over to ...
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Can't access my old email in Thunderbird after upgrading to 12.10
I was using Thunderbird on 12.04 and upgraded to 12.10 with the option that keeps my current data 3 days ago. When I entered Thunderbird, it asked for account data, but all of the email from the ...
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Evolution, the background of messages is always grey
With Evolution 3.6 on Ubuntu 12.10 all the email messages have grey backgrounds in the default theme (and every other one that I have tried). When using grey or black text, which is standard in most ...
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Gm-notify back on messaging icon on ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Messaging Menu missing after upgrade to 12.10
I use gm-notify to receive notifications of when i receive an email.
How do i get the messaging icon back on the panel to ...
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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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Mutt not working due to “gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.” error
I am expecting lots of problem trying to make mutt work in Ubuntu 12.04.
Here is my .muttrc : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1273585/
Here is the bug I am getting when i tried to connect.
gnutls_handshake: ...
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Thunderbird/Evolution cannot connect Gmail while Postler can!
I tried many possible ways and the instructions given by Google and Mozilla. But my Thunderbird cannot access to my Gmail.
I need ipv6 access in order to reach Google. And I have my /etc/hosts full ...
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E-mail sent from thunderbird not opening up
I have thunderbird installed in my 12.04 version. Whenever i forward any e-mail from my inbox it gets forwarded as a .eml attachment. How can i prevent this from happening, or alternatively how can i ...
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I cannot attach pdf to emails
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS two weeks ago and I have some problems. I cannot send pdf attachments with my email server. Why? Before with the old version it works very well. Please answer me without ...
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How read local email in thunderbird?
I just install postfix and configure it for local email only as a way to have a sendmail program and test my PHP scripts. My question is, how can I use an HTML capable email client like Thunderbird to ...
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How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is inserted?
We are running more than 600 Ubuntu systems in our company. It is a data centre so we have certain policies. We have disabled the usage of storage devices in all the Ubuntu systems. However we would ...
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Is there possibly going to be an Ubuntu Setup Intro in the future? [closed]
I just wanted to know because if there is going to be, I have already made one. If you want to check it out.
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How do I “sync” read/unread with Thunderbird and Hotmail
After a fresh install of 12.04, I'm trying to use thunderbird for the first time, instead of a web browser (first of all, is it better and/or safer?). I noticed that, at least for hotmail, read emails ...
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Check email using both a graphical and command line client
I generally use a graphical email client (Evolution), but I would like to be able to check my email from the command line as well.
I have experimented with Mutt, but I think it is not possible to ...
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Thunderbird: Missing folders after restore
Before installing a new OS I tried to backup my Thunderbird by copying the .thunderbird directory.
To be on the safe side I tried to emulate the restore procedure on another machine. I copied the ...
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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 ...
