Open source email server for Unix
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Postfix: Require login before sending email
How can I configure my postfix to require the user to log in before sending email ? At the moment I can send emails without any login authentication...
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How to make simple system user authentication work with postfix/dovecot on 12.10?
I have been wrestling on this a LOT. I never properly understood but I presume that authentication by the system users is done with PAM and the default authentication method for both Dovecot and ...
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Linux mail command not working like it used to
I was using the following mail command in my crontab to which worked flawlessly until we re installed our mail server last Friday:
echo "Testing 123" | mail -s "ECS PostDate Processed" ...
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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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Potential Postfix Infection
So I'm operating an Ubuntu VPS that uses postfix for sending outgoing mail. I have several email addresses attached to the domain that it hosted on the VPS, one of them is say user@domain.com. The ...
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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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PHP mail() function not working
I've been trying to configure the mail() function for 3 days by now, and I'm running out of ideas.
I've installed and configured postfix as a satellite, following this guide: How to have my PHP Send ...
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Postfix mail for mydomain.com loops back to myself Problem
I'm using vps server with ubuntu 10.04 when i send email to Gmail it's ok but for Hotmail fails, i check my logs i find this:
Mar 19 18:09:01 mail postfix/smtp[6340]: 8FAF722294: ...
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Postfix master.lock: permission denied
I'm triyng setup the postfix, but with no success.
I am using webmin to configure.
my problem is that postfix won't start, always with the same message:
Mar 19 19:21:13 site ...
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How do I forward a email to gmail using virtual_mailbox_maps with postfix and dovecot?
I have a maio server set up with postfix a dovecot and I user virtual_mailbox_maps to handle multiple domain email addresses. I want to be able to forward some of these emails to a gmail account. My ...
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How to make Postfix use new IP address?
I'm using the Postfix mail server and I have 6 IPs available. I'd like to use another IP to it with my pricipal ip.
How can I do this?
For example: main IP: 66.66.66.66 other IP: 66.66.66.67
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.lock file not getting removed when starting cyrys
When ever i trid to restart cyrus-imap service its showing lock files of the users.
root@mail3:~# /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd restart
* Restarting Cyrus IMAPd cyrmaster ...
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set up mailserver for multiple domains guide for beginner
I am not Linux pro, and after days of trying with tutorials how to set up postfix or other e-mail server I am try to find solution here.
In your office we have HP Proliant server with Ubuntu server ...
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SPF records problem
i'm using ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS in my VPS and i'm trying to set up spf records i have used perl and python methods but no one works for me when i send email test to spf checker it says Result: none (No ...
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High-performance mail transport agent6 postfix install failure
Continual install failure of -- High-performance mail transport agent6 postfix(Size: 1.3MB)--- I believe this is also affecting my ability to stay connected to my mail accounts. How do I fix this? ...
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I can't edit postfix parameters
When i try to access to main.cf to do some edits with nano text editor with sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf all the parameters don't appear in nano
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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 fatal: open lock file /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: cannot open file: Permission denied
I have recently installed postfix and while configuring the server have run into an issue. At one point I received the error from my syslog,
fatal: open lock file /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: cannot ...
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sendmail no response
I'm using postfix on ubuntu 12.04 server, with help from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
after setting up sasl as above guide, I tried sendmail - and sendmail just hangs.
here's what I've ...
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How can I install Postfix 2.10 on Ubuntu 12.04
I have used "sudo apt-get install postfix" to install Postfix on my server, running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
However the version of Postfix that is installed in 2.9.3.
I looking for a feature that became ...
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I need to sync my Postfix config to a second server and have Postfix reload when changes are made
I'd like to start out saying that I know enough Linux commands to be dangerous :-) With that warning out of the way, here is what I am trying to figure out how to handle.
Currently I have a single ...
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Depends: exim vs mail-transport-agent
I am creating a .deb installation package for our software, which depends on a valid SMTP server being installed. Currently the control file states:
Depends: mail-transport-agent
However one Debian ...
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Disable localhost postfix sending emails outside my machine
I configured postfix & mutt to read mails being sent by applications locally, but I just found out that they are going out on the internet too. Sometimes they reach my inbox and many times get ...
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fetch data from Incoming mail in postfix mail server
I have configured postfix for my kk.com domain successfully. Now I want to add function as described in below example.
Example:
if someone mail me at admin@kk.com, one php script will fetch ...
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How to disable Postfix logging?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and I am trying to disable logging for both Postfix and Dovecot. Does anyone know how to do this? I have found references stating that there is a setting in /etc/syslog.conf ...
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How to relay gmail using postfix? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure Postfix to send all email through my Gmail account?
I want to test php mail function from my ubuntu desktop. I heard that postfix can do this. But I ...
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Postfix logging
I have received a letter from my hoster, that my server sends a lot of emails.
It's strange.
How can I enable logging of emails? Or just of to headers.
Ubuntu 12.04, postfix.
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Postfix cannot resolve local IPs from Name Server
I currently have a server running "Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS" installed with
Postfix
Bind 9 (Slave)
The postfix cannot seem to resolve my internal IPs to Name Server (PTR) entry I have within ...
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Use /etc/aliases for outgoing mail relayed by postfix with local domain
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with postfix configured as satellite system that relays outgoing mail to Gmail. For sake of example, my registered domain is example.com I want root cronjobs' error output to be ...
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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 will not receive emails
My Postfix setup does not receive emails from anywhere other than the localhost (sendmail).
I can log in and send emails from my server, but nothing comes in.
Here is my postconf -n
alias_database ...
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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 do I install and configure postfix automatically on Ubuntu 12.04 using apt
I installed postfix on a bare bones Ubuntu Server 12.04 by typing the following in the terminal.
sudo apt-get install postfix
When asked to choose a mail server configuration type, I chose ...
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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 can I disable postfix on startup?
I can't get cron to stop spamming me with completed job notifications. It's getting out of hand and starting to clog up my 'real' email server, so I'd like to just disable postfix while I figure out ...
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How can I configure Postfix to send all email through my Gmail account?
I'm trying to send an email through Google from my localhost.
(via PHP5.3)
But Google keeps on blocking my requests.
I tried to follow the solutions given to a few similar questions, but for some ...
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NOQUEUE: reject: Temporary lookup failure [closed]
What postfix entry or parameter controls outgoing mails such that if it's not set properly might result in "temporary lookup failure" error ?
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dovecot: auth: ldap(xxx): unknown user
I'm hoping I can use some help.
I'm configuring dovecot_ldap, but I can't seem to be able to get dovecot to authenticate the ldap user.
Below is my config and log info:
hosts = 192.168.128.45:3268
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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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Postfix and tmpfs for /var/spool
My main disk is an SSD so in order to preserve its lifetime by reducing writes I followed some advice and made /var/spool a ram disk by adding this line to /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /var/spool tmpfs ...
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Local only sendmail that delivers all mail to a directory
I have a development Ubuntu Server (12.04.1) VM that I use to develop php sites and e-commerce sites (like Magento etc).
Because this is for development purposes, and I need to test with e-mail ...
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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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Stuck with Apache2, Postfix and apt-get [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I resolve unmet dependencies?
I've installed apache2 and postgresql on my system.
When I try to start apache2 service using:
$ sudo service apache2 start
No ...
