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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Reply using default account regardless of source account? [closed]
I have multiple accounts in Evolution 3.2, but only want to reply from one of them, regardless of which account the email came into - does anyone know if this is possible?
For example, email comes in ...
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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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What is the import process in Thunderbird for backup.pst files
I am not able to restore my previous mail backup data file backup.pst.
kindly help on the same.
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Set up Email accounts for virtual servers on VPS
I'm setting up my own VPS, till now I've managed to set up a few domains on it as virtual hosts. The sites are working fine, and now I need to add email accounts to each of them. I also have webmin ...
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Lost Evolution Inbox During 11.10 upgrade
I just upgraded to 11.10 and lost my inbox messages in Evolution. All subfolders and their content exists and continues to receive messages but the Inbox folder remains empty (although I know I have ...
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Verify Email address
Are there any software in ubuntu that verify email address (not syntax, email exists or not). I need a software or script or anything to check that a email address exits or not (not email syntax).
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Is there an e-mail client which does not need to download mail?
I would like to know if there is a mail client that just "reads" and sends emails without having to download them on the hard drive, due to limited disk space. The advantage over using a web mail ...
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How can I get in contact with an Ubuntu developer to help with a problem?
I have an Ubuntu problem and after posting it on here I got no answers. I need this problem fixed and I would like to get in email or Twitter contact with an Ubuntu expert.
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Is there an alternative to mail-notification which supports Hotmail?
I need a notification applet/daemon for Gnome Shell (on 11.10) that supports both Gmail and Hotmail. I tried mail-notification which is supposed to work with Hotmail, but I get an error and only Gmail ...
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Why is Claws Mail starting in offline mode?
I am sorry if this is not the best place to ask this, but hopefully someone might be able to help. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 from 11.04, Claws Mail 3.7.10 began starting in offline mode. It ...
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ms exchange 2007 client in ubuntu 10.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Exchange with Evolution or any other mail client
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with default *evolution*n client.i am able to configure evolution and work with ms exchange ...
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A client for newsgroup or email [closed]
I used mutt for a long time.
But I found that every mail from Google Group can not show ascii_char to indicate threads (I subscribed some google groups).
I guess that Google Group is a newsgroup. ...
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How can I make Claws Mail the preferred email client?
I have read here, Changing email application in Preferred Applications?, how to access mimeapps.list but I cannot figure out what needs to be entered for Claws Mail to act as preferred. I have tried
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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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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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sendmail and local mail server?
For testing emails I don't want to actually send an email out (and can't anyway as ISP blocks port 25).
I have installed Sendmail, and what I want to do is install a mail server on the same pc that ...
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System battery failed — Restarted — ALL evolution mails are missing
Few minutes back while working on my ubuntu box i didn't realized that battery is about to finish.
As soon as the battery drowned system was off and I was working in the evolution.
As soon as I ...
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Can I make mailto: links open up in gmail instead of evolution?
mailto: links fire up annoying "Evolution Setup Assistant". I want it to open a compose window in gmail in my web browser. There are existing questions about this here, but the answers are outdated ...
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Dovecot does not receive emails - Connection refused
I try install Mail server on Ubuntu, I've installed dovecot server.
telnet localhost 110 - correct
telnet mail.domain.cz 110 - correct
When I send email:
echo "Testicek" | mail -s "Dovecot test" ...
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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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How to Gmail Archive option in Evolution?
how can I easily archive my gmail account emails in Evolution? I would like a solution easy as gmail archive. After lot of googling the only solution that I found is manually sending to the All Email ...
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Shotwell & Nautilus not emailing pictures
When I want to email pictures, I open Shotwell and select the ones that I want. I right-click and use the "send to" to have them sent as an email, but nothing is sent. I have evolution set up with my ...
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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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How do I setup an email account in Evolution?
help to activate evolution email - to receive my centurylink emails.
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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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Will Thunderbird 5 appear in the official 11.04 repositories?
Now that Mozilla have adopted the same rapid release cycle for Thunderbird as they have for Firefox, will Thunderbird 5 appear in the official repositories like Firefox 5 did?
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How can I delete duplicate emails in Evolution?
How can I delete duplicate emails from Evolution 2.32.2?
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Why is Claws mail displaying sent mail in an editor window? [closed]
why is Claws mail displaying sent mail in an editor window? I don't want to change any sent mail. Maybe this is a small thing only but still annoying.
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Mail program for Netbook
What mail programs fit on a netbook screen?
Evolution isn't bad, but To, CC, and BCC are in fact too much.
Chris
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Program Preferences no longer recognizes Desktop webmail
Until today, I had desktop-webmail as my preferred e-mail client. Today, I clicked on an e-mail link, and up popped an Evolution window.
I do not know of any changes that I deliberately made to ...
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What E-mail clients are available?
What the best E-mail clients are available and integrate well with Ubuntu.
Including the features:
Support of notifcations for messages/News(RSS).
Integrate well with the events in the time/date ...
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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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How can I highlight paragraphs in emails and add private notes to them?
I would like to highlight parts of emails, without having to print them out and use a highlighter pen. I also want to add notes. I ideally want to see the highlights appear when I view an email a ...
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Script for deleting specific email on the pop server [closed]
I have installed popper for notification emails. It is working fine. With popper you can start a script when you click on a email. I am looking for a script so that i can delete a email on the pop ...
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Why does the Messaging Indicator display 3 instances of Inbox?
A couple of (I believe) interrelated questions regarding the Messaging Indicator:
Why does the Ubuntu Messaging Indicator Applet display 3 instances of Inbox ?
Why does new email not show up in ...
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Evolution has lost all email data after upgrade to 11.04, is there a way to recover the data?
Evolution seems to have deleted all my emails after an upgrade to natty, is there a way I can recover this data? Is there some mystical folder somewhere that stores this data or should I just forgive ...
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How should I read a file of type “text/calendar”?
I've got a colleague who keeps sending me attached calendar items from an MS Exchange server. Thunderbird and Mutt can't even see the attachment, but if I view the raw message source, it is there, ...
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Evolution's Outgoing Mail doesn't support correct authentication type [closed]
I'm trying to get my email set up at work, but I'm running into an issue with the outgoing mail preferences. I can receive email, but none of the options for authentication type in the "Sending Email" ...
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Can I migrate IMAP folders to an accessible backup somewhere?
I'm shutting down an old email account, but I'd like to keep access to the messages in the associated IMAP folders. There are a lot of folders/ messages. Is there a way I can go through the side door ...
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How to use @ubuntu.com email address using Thunderbird?
I am an Ubuntu member and have an @ubuntu.com email address. I want to use this address to reply to mails from using Thunderbird.
Right now this email address is mapped my one of my email-id on ...
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Can I use email to upload files into my Ubuntuone account?
It would be nice to be able to just email in info to my UbuntuOne account for retrieval later.
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Deactivate HTML display in incoming emails in Thunderbird
I often get HTML emails, I would like to just display them in plain text. How can I disable any HTML/Script rendering?
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Changing email application in Preferred Applications to GMail?
I'm trying to change the Preferred Application for email. I have installed the package desktop-webmail, but there is no new option under System - Preferences - Preferred Application as you would ...
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'accept' and 'deny' buttons are greyed out when receiving appointment request in Evolution
On Ubuntu Natty I've got a weird problem using evolution. A coworker (using Outlook) sends me an appointment request. The mail is received in Evolution but the 'Accept' and 'Deny' buttons are greyed ...
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Can I “speak IMAP” and review my actual mail quota?
I'm trying to troubleshoot a frustrating inbox quota issue. Thunderbird says my inbox is 80% full. My ISP says it isn't. We made some tweaks and I should have 2G available (it had been "unlimited"). ...
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Unity mail applet
I'm new here and started using Unity just 4 days ago. I have used Docky and AWN before. I mean i don't need all that neat stuff, but just the mail applet. Just to be in touch with mail.
Is there any ...
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Thunderbird says my inbox is 80% full; ISP says no limit. What gives?
Thunderbird has been reporting that I'm using 81% of my inbox quota, but my ISP says I have no inbox quota. One of them is wrong. How do I go about figuring out who?
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Sendmail doesn't shoot off email when I end the message [closed]
When I try to send email with sendmail like so:
sendmail example@example.com
hello.
.
The program doesn't exit when I enter the final line with the dot '.' only, like it should. I haven't ...
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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.
