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Postfix and Spamassassin don't start on boot after Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade

I have just upgraded a server from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS. My issue is that now upon reboot, neither Postfix nor Spamassassin are running. There are init.d scripts for both these services and ...
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SMTP Relay Server with client authentication

i have a postfix STMP Relay Server using mandrillapp as my relay host, and for now my client (which use my SMTP Relay Server for sending mail) just sending email without authentication (just ...
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Crontab not running entire script?

I have a crontab setup under root that launches a script i've made that starts my mining rig. Here's what the crontab looks like @reboot /etc/initminer.sh */5 * * * * /etc/zombiescan.sh I know ...
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Gitlab is not sending mails but postfix works, omnibus installation (16.04) how to troubleshoot?

I used the gitlab omnibus installtion for my 16.04 Ubuntu Server, since I run into dependency issues when using apt-get install git. So I ran sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check to check my environment. The ...
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Set different mail ID than domain in postfix

I have installed postfix in my ubuntu server. My domain name is www.mydomain.com and I want to configure postfix with different mail ID and with different domain, like [email protected] instead ...
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Ubuntu 16 No "Mail" program installed

Consistently when I have looked at Ubuntu installations, upon login, I have seen a notification like "You have new mail" I am interested in how this works, how to both send and receive mail. The ...
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postfix smtpd_recipient_restrictions problem

I'm trying to get my server on a.b.c.3 to accept messages and send them from a.b.c.2. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and postfix. On the .3 server that's running a very simple installation of postfix, I'm ...
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Can receive email, can send email to local domain, can't send email to other mailservers

I've recently set up a mail-server using Postfix, Dovecot and mySQL. Everything works fine except that I can't send email to other mailservers say Google. I get the following error: Aug 15 11:14:27 ...
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postfix, send to gmail, yahoo, not working

I've setup a postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 that appears to not work as it supposed. Receive works, I use mail and able to see gmail, yahoo emails just fine. YAHOO says: said: 553 5.7.1 [BL21] Connections ...
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How do I fix gnunet issues connected with upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Countless times during the upgrade, and several times every time I reboot since then, I get: System Program Problem Detected It always says: Sorry, ...
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WordPress DAP -- postfix recipient address error

When the WordPress plugin DAP (Digital Access Pass) sends an email message, this is the message I get in the log: server postfix/sendmail[3324]: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the ...
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(very) old version of Postfix in Ubuntu Trusty

I'm active user (admin) of several Postfix-based mail stacks. Last year in December I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) for the first time and set up Postfix with components, as usual. One ...
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Postfix for internal and external use

I have a small Postfix Server (v > 3.0) running which is connected to the Internet. Sending and receiving mails through this interface is fine. Now on this server I have a second network interface (...
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postfix configuration ubuntu upgrade: what to choose?

During dist upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 I am asked to choose postfix configuration from: No configuration Internet Site Internet with smarthost Satellite system Local ...
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Spamassassin+postfix issue

I have migrated postfix entirely to another server and having issue trying to enable spamassassin. After adding filtering to master.cf and restarting postfix no external (e.g. from outside domain) ...
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mail-in-a-box versus sendmail?

What are some of the considerations for selecting between Sendmail and Mail-in-a-Box? Mail-in-a-Box wins on the marketing: What is it? Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service ...
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Postfix mail boundes due to dynamic IP

I am attempting to set up a send-only mail server on my ubuntu machine to send emails to one of my email accounts to notify me of jobs finishing. I followed this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/...
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Mail is not received

I have a configured a mail server in my system, After configuring I am facing a problem that I can send a mail but I can't view the mail sent from external or local. Test case : Sending mail to ...
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Postfix would not auto-create the Maildir for incoming mails

I am trying to setup a mail server. I went over tons of tutorials on how to do this with Postfix + dovecot + MySQL, but none was error-proof and I always got stuck at some point with an error. So I ...
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Failed to stop postfix.service: Unit postfix.service not loaded

When I try to remove postfix I get this error: Removing postfix (3.1.0-3) ... Failed to stop postfix.service: Unit postfix.service not loaded. invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action "stop" failed. ...
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Setup postfix, help needed

My main goal is to have email sent to me via ZoneMinder. I have a FQDN set, I have looked at many different setup instructions including this, and this, as well as other tutorials that I can't list ...
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4.7.1 Service Unavailable - try again later

I'm not sure this is the best place for this question, but I have googled around and can't seem to find a resolution to my issue. Please feel free to redirect me somewhere else if necessary. :) So, I ...
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mail not sending or receiving ?

I configured a mail server on ubuntu 14.04 using postfix and dovecot. When I'm trying to send mail or receive mail then it's not working and GENERATING no error. mail log Jun 11 07:40:18 mail ...
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creating postfix email user without shell access

I have currently setup Postfix mail server for my company, but there is a bit of problem, the users I have defined for mail server MUST have shell access to server otherwise Postfix won't recognise it ...
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Postfix and relay with Gmail: i can't send emails

I'm trying to send emails from my machine using gmail as sender. I've followed this tutorial: https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/ubuntu-postfix-gmail-smtp/ and when I try to send an email from ...
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Is there a way to pipe the mail output to a file?

Say for example that I used the command sendmail [email protected] < email.txt Is there any way to configure postfix to send the contents of email.txt to a file, instead of to [email protected]? The ...
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Receiving Email Problem from outside in Elastix

I've already installed elastix 3 stable version (postfix, cyrus sasl2). I'm using as email server in my local network. here everything works as the bellow: Send Email from Local To Local = OK!...
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postfix 2.11, cannot receive emails from specific domain

helo, I am over 3 days now working on a solution. Our server is getting emails normally from around the world, except from one domain(our ISP free emails server domain). It would not be a problem but ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 auth_pam broken

I'm trying to set up a mail server on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 machine but I can't get it to work properly. I'm using a Postfix/Courier setup with MySQL for authentication. Receiving emails and reading ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 server ports are closing on their own

I am running squirrelmail, apache2, and postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 server edition. The server works fine, but if I don't use it for about an hour port 80 and 25 become closed for anyone trying to connect ...
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can't send emails to gmail accounts from postfix

Hi I have a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 configured as email box using this guide http://www.krizna.com/ubuntu/setup-mail-server-ubuntu-14-04/ and then install and configure spamassasin with this ...
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I've made an email server using postfix and dovecot and I cannot send emails to Gmail! It works perfectly with Yahoo

I've made an email server on Ubuntu 12.04 using postfix, dovecot and roundcube as an web interface. Sending and receiving mails from Yahoo works fine (well, to be honest with a delay of 5 minutes, I ...
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how to setup send-only email server on ubuntu

I have a project coming soon and I need to send an email to around 300K people who might have the interest in the project. However I need to send them an email in the same day (the opening day) and as ...
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Problem with PAM authorization in Dovecot

I've been using postfix with sasl and dovecot for many years. Three days ago, authorization for dovecot via PAM stopped working which means no IMAP or POP3. SASL was working as I could tunnel in with ...
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Postfix keeping email in queue for indefinite time. Sending from sendmail its working. Any idea?

I have set up postfix on my ubuntu. I have configured it properly so when ever I send email through Command Line or from "Read User Mail" section of Webmin its working. But when I try sending php code ...
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Block port on one network address

I'd like to block a series of ports (mailserver) for all the network addresses on my server except one. I've got a server running Ubuntu 14.04.4 and configured with 2 ipv4 addresses per Linode's ...
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Not able to send/receive emails outside my Domain from recently configured email-server

Email-server setup is not working on Ubuntu 16,postfix,dovecot. below are the config/facts Registered a domain say atul.com ISP is comcast who blocks port 25 Created A record @ -- 1.2.3.4 No CNAME ...
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Postfix Mail Server. Someone is sending Mails from my server

I am receiving Mails from my own mail server, from a user that belongs to my domain, but is not listed in my mail user db. Here are the logs: 4679 Mar 28 15:54:13 Bumblebee postfix/smtpd[29350]: ...
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Postfix sends from localhost using mail but does not relay mails from local clients

For a couple of days I am trying to configure Postfix/Dovecot, I did my best to follow the guides, I can receive mail but cannot send mail from other mail clients than localhost. Here is a syslog ...
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Postfix logs to remote server

On my Ubuntu 14.04 server, I'm using Postfix as a front-end mailserver, and I would like to send all mail related info, including email addresses, to a remote host. In the file /etc/rsyslog.d/50-...
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Virtual user mail server setup

I have tried multiple times to setup a mail server that uses a mysql backend on ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I have used this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-...
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sending email test with postfix

I have installed postfix and I want to test the service to send mail. But the command line mail seems not to be recognized. I read that I should have installed mailutils and that I don't have all the ...
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Setup Postfix using an external SMTP Server

I am trying to set up postfix on Ubuntu 14.04 to use an external SMTP Server. I installed the libsasl2-modules to deal with authentication. I created my credentials file: sudo vim /etc/postfix/...
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Need to migrate Microsoft office outlook .pst file in to Ubuntu 14.04 ver.

i am migrating my system Microsoft in to Ubuntu 14.04 ver. so i have my existing .pst file how can i configure in Ubuntu ? i have configure in Evolution mail client which is successfully ...
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postconf -d not updating after service postfix reload

I am trying to update postfix main.cf using the commands, postconf -ev disable_vrfy_command=yes service postfix reload but when I check postconf -d I still get disable_vrfy_command=no. I also tried ...
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Postfix from=<> Have I been hacked by a spammer?

mailq is showing a bunch of connection timeouts in deferred queue to addresses that look weird. D1115234D9 3037 Thu Feb 25 11:01:38 MAILER-DAEMON (connect to mail.suchgt.top[63.143.32.55]...
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SpamAssassing handles only one domain

After installing Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassing, Sieve and Amavis on my server (web01.mydomain.com) everything seems to be fine - spam mails addressed to e.g. [email protected] or [email protected] ...
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having trouble with getaddrinfo()

I have a 14.04 LTS server installation. It is relatively new. It is up to date on its patches. I'm running postfix on it and I noticed that the SMTP server was having trouble resolving delivery....
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Setup Postfix/dovecot/maysql - receiving mail in Maildir but not in client inbox

I'm not an expert in mail server configuration I successfully setup the server to send mail but i cant find the solution for receiving my emails in the client inbox but i can in my Maildir. response ...
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Configuring email for a development machine

Almost every article I have found on this subject, including those on 'ask ubunutu', go along the lines of "follow this (deadlink to an article) BUT modify this that and the other". Regardless to say, ...
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