Questions tagged [email]
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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I can not open any of evolution's windows when I start evolution
When I start evolution on blank or new window it appears as an icon in the top right. Clicking on it shows windows are there but they will not open. I have used apt to remove evolution and reinstall ...
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Why is Thunderbird Mail erratic after upgrading to 21.10?
After sorting out account configuration issues very recently with Thunderbird, and having it work perfectly with 21.04, the program now is erratic when sending mail. I am unable to quit Thunderbird ...
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Evolution email: is there a chance to get HTML Signature in line with the sending alias?
Is there any chance to have multiple signature in Evolutions (yes) and automatically attach a one signature to a given alias?
I have a single mail account with two aliases and I'd like to attach the ...
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Postfix + devocat + roundcube + WordPress - I can't receive emails and roundcube is showing nothing
I'm doing a migration for my client for his website based on WordPress - from hosting to VPS.
I am using apache2 for WordPress. I changed the DNS to the new IP (VPS) in the DNS control panel and ...
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How to set up simple SMTP and POP services on one host to send/receive email on that host for app demo purposes
I have an application that can send and receive emails, however, I want to keep all communication within the one host as it is only for demonstrating the apps features. I guess I have to install SMTP ...
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Why am I unable to send e-mail with Thunderbird - the connection times out, trying to connect
I am running Ubuntu 21.04 and regularly updated. I have 100mb fiber connection and the time of day when trying to send an e-mail does not matter. I can, however, successfully send a message using a ...
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issue running thunderbird-91 with firejail thunderbird profile
I have been using thunderbird-78 installed through apt package repository. I was able to run thunderbird in firejail mode using the command firejail --profile=/etc/firejail/thunderbird.profile ...
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OpenDocument file giving text for Yahoo email
Suppose I've got an OpenDocument file giving text of a Yahoo email I want to send, italics, boldface and all. If I copy it and paste into Compose buffer, will it retain the italics and boldfacing? If ...
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Google drive option won't show up in my File Manager
I followed this Tutorial, so that i can use Google Drive directly from my File Manager (Nautilus) But As per the tutorial Step 3
Step 3: Mount Google Drive in Ubuntu File Manager
Open your Ubuntu ...
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How to Use dig to Find DMARC Records for a Domain?
Given this query:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ dig TXT _dmarc.cisco.com
; <<>> DiG 9.16.8-Ubuntu <<>> TXT _dmarc.cisco.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;;...
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How to determine whether a DMARC record exists, or not?
A quick search at mxtoolbox.com shows:
Category Host Result
dmarc example.com No DMARC Record found More Info
spf example.com No SPF Record found More Info
mx ...
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Rewrite / relay problem with postfix configuration and sender dependent relayhosts - ISP
I have "Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS" on a raspberry pi 4,
and I'm trying to config postfix to use sender dependent relayhosts.
Postfix is mail_version = 3.4.13 and i have
a dynamic IP.
The schema ...
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Cannot access 'home/username/Maildir':
I just started learning ubuntu 20.04 server and trying to set up mail system (To use Thunderbird) I am using online tutorial, to set up Postfix.
Here is the link which I following tutorial
enter link ...
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Firefox not offered as default mail application
I'm in the process of switching from Chrome to Firefox. When I go to Default Applications, both are listed under Web, but only Chrome is listed under Mail - no Firefox. So "mailto:" links ...
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Is my postfix mail configuration correct? (Emails aren't being received) [closed]
I'm very much a linux noob and greatly appreciate any help and patience you can provide.
I'm running Ubuntu 21.04
Email setup instructions from web host:
I'm trying to setup mail to be sent via ...
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Unable to change TTL value on local DNS Ubuntu 18.04
I have configured local dns with mailserver, while checking the dns using dig default ttl is always 0.
How can i set TTL 60 ? Can you please advise me ?
root@mx:/etc/bind# uname -a
Linux mx.mailserver....
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How do I configure a command line email client to send and receive email from the command line in Ubuntu?
I have been exploring command line email clients for a while now and it is not clear to me which would be the most standard tool and set-up.
I want to send emails from the command line without opening ...
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Simple Mailx configuration
I find a lot of Unix mail programs' documentations unwieldy because they provide a lot of advanced commands but it is difficult to find basic set-up information.
I would like to check and send email ...
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New mail server and empty mail content - winmail.dat [closed]
I have two IMAP accounts in Outlook 365. If I send an e-mail from my 1st account to 2nd account the e-mail is received I can see the subject but the message body is missing. Instead I can see that ...
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Testing unattended-upgrades with actual package updates
I've followed the tutorial from Debian (which is virtually identical to the one from Canonical) on how to set up unattended-upgrades, on an 18.04 server VM. I primarily want this for email update ...
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How to fetch email in the background?
I use GNOME Evolution as my email and calendar client. It only sends email notifications and event reminders while Evolution is running. Is there a way to make the notifications component run in the ...
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Ubuntu Server - Looking for software to take commands through email an execute them
I am looking for preferably Opensource software for Ubuntu Mail Server .
Requirement from software would be:
Listening for incoming emails on a [email protected] .
In case the incoming email ...
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How to explicitly specify the sender with the alpine e-mail client?
I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating ...
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Rearranging Email Folders in Evolution
In the Evolution email client, all of my folders in my email account are organized alphabetically by default. The same goes for my search folders. Is there a way to rearrange the folders? There's a ...
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open link from mail in browser, without switching to the browser
In Thunderbird, I used to click on links, which resulted in an new tab, opened in the browser, without switching/activating the browser, so I could open 4, 5 mail notifications in a row, having 4, 5 ...
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Auto-split attachment from e-mail in e-mail client at download?
I've searched around on this for months every now and then, including here, to no avail. My issue seems so exotic I even seem unable to use the right set of keywords in forums and communities. That's ...
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Crontab is not emailing me errors
I have a script called cron-test.sh with a line of code to trigger an error:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Cron Tab is Running"
asdfadsf
My crontab -e has this:
* * * * * /home/user/cron-test.sh
I can'...
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Online accounts login prompt is distorted on website pop-ups [duplicate]
When trying to login to an online account through the settings which opens a website pop-up (ex. Google, Microsoft, Flickr, and Foursquare) the popup is distorted and I can't see anything (see the ...
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The mail command hangs on "Cc:" for mail
For some reason, when I send mail with
mail -s 'test email' [email protected]
It prints out Cc: after I press enter and I can't do anything. I tried pressing . and it still is stuck. I'm ...
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AWS SES send mail openssl authentication failure
I'm trying to send mail from an ubuntu client through the SES service from AWS. I'm following this tutorial. I've gotten all the way to the part where I actually send the mail. I have double and ...
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pywhatkit : KeyError: 'DISPLAY' from pywhatkit Library on Linux
I am able to run this code on the spyder (python 3.9), but when I run same code on the Linux. It is giving
KeyError: 'DISPLAY'
Python code
import pywhatkit
sender = "[email protected]"
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How to configure alpine for ionos mail using the .pinerc file?
In using alpine I'm composing messages and see:
HOST: smtp.foo.bar ENTER LOGIN NAME [nicholas] :
^G Help ...
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Reliable cron errors notifications, how to?
Please note: I did my research and experimentation, and I cannot solve this problem; there are many partial solutions that don't address all my points. Don't dismiss this question quickly.
Scenario: ...
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Webmail behind firewall
I hope someone can point me to a guide or help set up a mail server behind a pfSense firewall that would be separated from the web page. I am a relative newbie on Linux, so the more detailed, the ...
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mail MIME-Version and Content-Type not setting header - Mail Behavior Different from Ubuntu 14.04 vs Ubuntu 20.04
I recently copied over scripts from an Ubuntu 14.04 server to an Ubuntu 20.04 server. Some of my scripts do NOT appear to work as they did before on the older Ubuntu 14.04 server now that they're ...
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Send email via gmail, without other mail server, with postfix
I am inexperienced in configuring mail systems.
I am using Ubuntu #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu.
How can I configure my computer to send emails using a gmail account, with postfix?
I mean not to have any other ...
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Which option ("internet site", "internet with smarthost", "satellite system") should I choose in postfix configuration?
When I attempt to install postfix on my home desktop system, I get a configuration dialog with the following options1:
No configuration: Should be chosen to leave the current configuration unchanged.
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MTA-sendmail stat=Deferred: Connection refused by X.X.X.X
Groovy Gorilla
Local sendmail can't deliver local mails. The localhost not responding, what else needs to check?
echo "Subject: sendmail test" | sendmail -v root
root... Connecting to [127.0....
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OVH VPS Postfix can't receive external emails
I hope this is the right place where to ask for this kind of stuff, If not, please let me know.
I'm pretty new to mail server in generals, I bought a VPS from OVH services for other needs and decided ...
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Thunderbird: restore single email account coming from folder backup
I have mistakenly overwritten one of the email account of a Thunderbird profile and I would like to restore it from a folder backup of some months ago.
It was an IMAP mailbox (that now is inactive) ...
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centralizing my and my family mails
I am looking for a solution to centralize my mails on one server.
My idea is to download all my mails into a central place (to my locally hosted ubuntu server) from all different public mail servers. ...
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Problems sending with msmtp
I'm using notmuch message mode in emacs and I'm trying to send a message using msmtp. When I try to send a mail from within emacs it suddenly opens my default system email client, Evolution, and ...
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php7.4-imap Installed on Ubuntu 16.04 But imap_open() is not working and also says php7.4-imap doesn't exists
We have PHP 7.4 installed and want to integrate IMAP to receive emails. Also installed php7.4-IMAP but still imap_open() not responding. When trying to enable IMAP showing an error like the module ...
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after the last update ubuntu 20.04.2 Thunderbird will not set up the Existing Email address
Thunderbird will not set up the
Existing Email address.
.After "the following settings were found by probing the given server", ....... unable to log in at server, ... etc the settings are ...
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Lost my old ubuntu account?
I logged in on my Ubuntu account, and changed my email address to my GMAIL address and SAVED it. I de-registered the old email address that I used to log on to my ubuntu account. But when I tried to ...
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How do I Import email from Thunderbird Snap 86.0b3 to Thunderbird 68.10.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
I used Ubuntu Software to remove Thunderbird Snap 86.0b3 and install Thunderbird Mail 68.10.0
I am running Thunderbird Mail on Ubuntu 18.04.
Unfortunately I removed Thunderbird Snap before I installed ...
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auto install email attachments to file?
I'm semi-new to Linux and ubuntu. I'm setting up a Linux server for a small office that doubles as a network drive. I'm trying to find a software that will take all email attachments and save them to ...
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Just installed Yubico Yubikey for multifactor autentication and my MS Hotmail account in Evolution is suddenly failing authentication
I have just installed Yubikey and the authentication works for everything except now I have an authentication issue with my MS Hotmail account in Gnome evolution. I have uninstalled and re-added the ...
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Setting up a postfix server on a homenetwork via the noIP service for full-time use
I'm trying to learn about linux and network administration, so I'm not especially concerned if this is not the most efficient way to do things.
I have a server at home running Ubuntu 20.04.
I've set ...
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Thunderbird problems as of 1st Feb 2021
As of today, Thunderbird wants me to create a new profile rather than show data from my existing profile. It's looking for the profile in the right place as evident in the Help - Troubleshooting menu ...