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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Email-client such as Evolution with Sent-emails -folder?
I zwitched on Desktop from Mutt to Evolution to some extent. Now I cannot find my sent emails so where are the sent -emails when they are sent with Evolution -email-program?
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How can i hide winmail.dat in Evolution?
I have a problem with the Evolution e-mail program.
Since a while i get from certain people mails with the attachment winmail.dat.
I have installed the evolution-experimental-plugins package for the ...
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How to obtain a S/MIME certificate for e-mail encryption?
There are parties, e.g. enterprises, that uses S/MIME certificates for e-mail encryption. To my understanding Thunderbird has support by default for S/MIME. But I have not found a way to obtain a ...
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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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Is it possible to share an Exchange calendar with another outlook user using Thunderbird/Lightning? If so, how?
I am not on a Windows machine and cannot access outlook other than outlook.companyname.com. I have my exchange email set up through Thunderbird/Lightning AND synced my exchange calendar.
How can 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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Trouble setting up Thunderbird/DavMail to Microsoft Exchange. I'm following DavMail instructions but it keeps saying my username/password is wrong
OK, I'm tried setting up pop and IMAP. I follow the directions to the T but I keep getting "incorrect username or password."
I reset my password (I don't have outlook right now) to something simple ...
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illegal list name: mailman configuration with FQDN
What do I need to so that mailman, and also dovecot-postfix, use the FQDN of dur.bounceme.net? Or, at least, so that mailman is usable on localhost.
root@dur:~#
root@dur:~# newlist mailman
Enter ...
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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 sync email client between ubuntu and windows for seamless use of mails and archives
I am looking for an email client which offers seamless integration of (offline) mails when used from linux (ubuntu 12.04) and windows 7. Being a windows user till now, I have been using Outlook and ...
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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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How to configure Thunderbird to notify new mails only in certain folders?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and recently started using Thunderbird.
I have GMail account and have configured a lot of Labels in it, all of which appear as folders in Thunderbird. Most of these are just ...
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After upgrading to 11.10, there is no toolbar for evolution. Can I get it back?
After upgrading, from 11.04 to 11.10, there is no longer a toolbar for evolution. How can I get it back.
I am finding the adjustment to moving from 11.04 to 11.10 very difficult.
All of the advise ...
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SETUP for sending Mail via postfix to GMAIL
My knowledge of mail delivery systems is near ZERO
I have stand alone PC running UBUNTU 12.04 (no other OP systems)
I am developing a web system with PHP and want to send an email to users that have ...
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Configuring and Using Sendmail [closed]
I have been trying to configure Sendmail to be able to use any email address to send an email to anyone I choose. I am using BackTrack5 just because it was what I already had on my machine.
I used ...
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How to stop email report from Cron <root@machine> (hourly)
I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04, I've configured "ssmtp" with my gmail account and now I'm getting every hour an email with a report, this is an example:
From: root Date: 2012/8/13 Subject: Cron [
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Pointing email (Thunderbird) to a flash drive
I carry my Thunderbird profile on a USB flash drive so that I can access it from multiple computers. How can I point Thunderbird to that drive in Ubuntu?
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Thunderbird 14 does not work with gmail on Ubuntu 12.04
I have been attempting to set up Thunderbird from a default install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS Desktop. Attempting to click on the inbox gives:
The current operation on Inbox did not succeed. The mail server ...
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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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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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How to set default paragraph style to “normal” in email replies in Evolution?
When I answer an email in Evolution 3.2.3 (Ubuntu 12.04) the new text I write has the paragraph style "normal" and is wrapped, but the quoted text of the email I answer to has the paragraph style ...
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How can I download attachments from emails through terminal using getmail?
I know I can download emails using a client, but is there a way to download emails straight from the terminal? I'm trying to fetch some emails from my gmail to later do some analysis on certain ...
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How do I configure exim4 to send mail through a password protected ssl smtp mail server?
I'd like my cronjobs to be able to send mail from my home computer. My servers configure exim4 like this:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
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How/Can I use OUTLOOK in Ubuntu Mail Server? Thanks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Exchange with Evolution or any other mail client
How/Can I use OUTLOOK in Ubuntu Mail Server?
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After upgrading Ubuntu: Mail notification doesn't work
After upgrading the previous version of Ubuntu to 12.04 LTS, the Mail Notification application (declared as startup application under unity; parameters of mail server are set well) does not return any ...
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Ubuntu alternative to Thunderbird now that Mozilla dropped support
What Ubuntu's plan to Mail client now that Mozilla dropped support of Thunderbird?
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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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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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Does my Linode VPS come with a mail server and what is its FQDN?
I have a linode account when i click on DNS manager then edit my domain name there is a section that says Mail Server and written as mail.mydomain.com . Does that mean linode comes with a email server ...
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How do I set up a mail server on a Linode VPS?
i have a linode account and trying to setup an email server where i can send and receive email from my registered domain.
i typed this into shell:
sudo tasksel install mail-server
but what is the ...
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Why does thunderbird inform that I get 3 new messages when I only get 1
That happens only when receiving messages from Stack Exchange, and what's the reason I didn't have Stack Exchange account anymore though I just created it yesterday, I had to create it again and again ...
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Save my emails in files
So as said in the title, i want to find a way download my emails on my pc and save them in a file. ( so then i could use linux text manipulation commands on them to do some filtering )
i'v found ...
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Access Yahoo's site and E-mail by Firefox
I'm starting using Linux (Ubuntu 12.04). I've had many problems to access all Yahoo's pages. Only Yahoo, others sites I access well.
I don't know why it happens! It only happens with Yahoo's pages.
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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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How do I digitally sign emails outgoing from different identities?
To send emails, I use one SMTP server, say domain1.com. But I use two identities that set up in Thunderbird, say agmenor@domain1.com and agmenor@domain2.com. For those who are not knowledgeable about ...
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MeMenu not indicating new mail
The MeMenu used to change color when new e-mails arrived. With 11.10 and now 12.04, this is no longer the case. As I understand, this is due to the default use of Thunderbird instead of Evolution. Is ...
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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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Thunderbird doesn't open at all [closed]
When I click on thunderbird in Ubuntu 12.04, nothing happens. The icon flashes for a while. But then no window opens. I tried reinstalling it, running it from the terminal, checking the folder (which ...
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How to download only recent mails in Thunderbird?
I have an account at Hotmail and I have lots of mails there. (more than 10000)
I don't want Thunderbird to download them all, also because I have really slow connection.
Is there a way to make ...
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I can't logon to the mail server using an NIS user account
Below is my configuration
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
auth_mechanisms = plain login
mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir
passdb {
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Thunderbird 12.0.1 doesn't recognize any of my emails on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64
I'm trying to set my emails on thunderbird but I keep getting the same error message:
Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account.
I saw another thread of two people with the ...
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How can I disable Ubuntu 12.04's E-mail thing?
I use G-Mail. I don't need Ubuntu to boot up its own E-mail program, cramming up my boot times when I try to start my system?
How can I disable the E-mail program?
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Is there any LaTeX integration for EMail editors?
There are some StackExchange pages, as well as blogs, which have LaTeX integration, e.g. http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/. On these pages one can simply write math LaTeX code using the $ ...
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Mutt runng from Crontab
I have a bash script that is sending an email through command line mutt. This bash script is being called from a cron job (setup using crontab -e because of permissions needed to do all items in the ...
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Why does Kmail make JPG files larger when I forward them?
When I forward emails with JPEG attachments inline, the JPEG files size enlarge. Is this normal? Can I turn it off?
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How to remove the mail/IM icon from the notification area? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove that envelope icon from the menu bar?
How do I remove the mail/IM icon (envelope) from the notification area in Ubuntu 12.04? I'm not using the IM client ...
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Thunderbird does not open when I use “send link” in Firefox 12.0 [closed]
Thunderbird 12.0 does not open when I use "send link" in Firefox 12.0. Thunderbird is working and running. The usual new mail window does not appear.
In Firefox: Edit → Preferences → Applications → ...
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Email Piping with Thunderbird
I have a PHP script (osTicket) that has the ability for parsing piped emails.
In theory it would be very simple to execute a script and post the email source code to it.
Is there a plugin available ...
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Problem sending an email via mutt
I'm trying to send an email using mutt like this:
echo 1.txt | mutt my_email@gmail.com -s Hello -a file.tar.bz2
It's getting no error, but I didn't receive the email.
What's the problem?
