Sendmail is a mail transfer agent that facilitates sending email. It typically involves a local email server, and so is unlike email clients such as Evolution and Thunderbird.
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Sendmail not working properly
I wanted my joomla website to send emails, so for that I installed sendmail.
I tested it by using putty sendmail emailadress@domain.com content of email to check if it was working.
I made multiple ...
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How do I update alternatives to use sendmail?
this is an expansion of my question: Linux mail command not working like it used to which I would considered answered but I need a little more clarification.
In my previous question I learned that ...
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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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How do I configure /etc/hosts and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini for sendemail
I installed sendmail on my Ubuntu 12.04 web-server. I also configured the [mail function] and I tried to send emails...the message from the php code I wrote told me that the email has been send ...
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Deferred: Name server host name lookup failure (smart host)
am using the sendmail to send an email and configure it as the following :
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp-server')dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')
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sendmail that delivers all mail to a directory, storing it separately
I used the configuration Local only sendmail that delivers all mail to a directory, but it is not enough for me.
The solution above store all emails into one file - /var/mail/MYLOCALUSER.
How to ...
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mail log full of failed attempts to send to local users
I am newbie in Ubuntu and Unix in common and I have a question about mail. I did setup sendmail on my server. Emailing to user form php scripts working fine, but in /var/etc/mail.info log I see a lot ...
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How to find the number of commands executed by a service(sendmail)
I need to count the number of commands executed by starting the 'Sendmail' service. How can i do that?
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config problems in sendmail
I am in the last step of the send mail config, due to some issues the send mail in /usr/sbin/ is not getting accessed even though i gave permissions. I have to perform the following step
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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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how to set-up (very) simple sendmail
I've been trying to get command line sendmail to work, but no success. I need this to output my anacron error somewhere.
I've installed the sendmail package. Configured /etc/aliases with:
root: ...
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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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setting a username and password on SMTP
I just setup a mail sending using exim. I tested and it works. However, it seems that even if I don't put username and password of SMTP server on PHPMailer field the sending of mail works. How can I ...
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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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Sendmail not working on ubuntu guest - unqualified host name
I have a win7 host running ubuntu guest through vbox. it is configured with a bridged network adapter and I am using DHCP to assign an ip of 192.168.0.5 to the guest which is mapped to smartstart.dev ...
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remove mail send client ssmtp and lsb-invalid-mta
I had ssmtp installed on my local desktop, due to some testing.
now I uninstalled it with apt-get remove and in automatcally installed lsb-invalid-mta
If I try to uninstall that too, it will install ...
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Unable to clean sendmail/ssmtp output queue
I have an old message stuck somewhere. The recipient's address is invalid and the system keeps trying to re-send despite mail output queue being supposedly empty. Any ideas where I should look for the ...
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thunderbird read sendmail
I have successfully installed alpine and sendmail from this video.
have thunderbird already installed.
Is there a way to read mails form thunderbird like from alpine?
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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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Courier-imap with sendmail setup: why is my IMAP inbox empty?
I've successfully installed sendmail, but when I connect to the Courier IMAP server via Outlook, the Inbox is listed as empty. When I check the inbox with Alpine locally on the server, it has content ...
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Sendmail on ubuntu 12.04 64 bit connection times out?
Okay i get the following error message:
to=<i@adamziolkowski.com>, ctladdr=<www-data@adam-linux> (33/33), delay=2+08:20:35,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=25590437, ...
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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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Why can't the nagios user send mails using “sendmail”?
I have installed nagios for monitoring and sendmail for sending mails. When testing from root account I am receiving mails, but I'm not receiving mails when I send it from nagios account. I have ...
