Questions tagged [mail-server]
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wireguard peer (client) loses VPN IP address shortly after connection, but stays connected to VPN server and can ping the server IP. What gives?
I am tunneling an Ubuntu 22.04 web server through a Wireguard VPN (as the vpn client), to another Ubuntu 22.04 Server as the Wireguard VPN Host (server). I have set up the Client/Server exactly ...
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How can I change displayed name as sender?
I send email from my server like this:
echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line" [email protected]
Noted that I replace [email protected] with a real email address. And ...
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All SMTP mail goes through port 25 which is rejected by gmail and others
I set up postfix & dovecot using this and this. I can now receive mails OK. However, my outgoing mail is rejected, presumably because it's being sent on port 25. How can I force it to use 587 ...
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Why do I get an error when I try to postmap sasl password file with postfix?
I installed postfix freshly as satellite system. I need to authenticate on my mail providers smpt. There postfix needs to build a sasl database from my sasl-passwd file. But it fails to do just that. ...
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Can't set up SMTP server
I am currently trying to set up an SMTP server on Ubuntu22.04, using the instructions from this tutorial: https://operavps.com/docs/install-smtp-server-on-ubuntu/ It says to use telnet to get the ...
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Roundcube Intermittent - Empty startup greeting (localhost:143)
I'm getting this connection string error in the RoundCube logs:
IMAP Error: Login failed for xxx against localhost from xxx. Empty startup greeting (localhost:143) in xxx/public_html/program/lib/...
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How to send functional email from Ubuntu using bash and mailutils?
I'm trying to set up my first mail server and am encountering issues verifying it is working correctly.
I have 'mailutils' installed and send mail by using:
mail [email protected]
I then enter the ...
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copy postfix/dovecot/imapsync configuration to new pc
TL;DR Fast and easy way to copy postfix/dovecot/imapsync configuration to new pc?
First of all, I almost have no clue on how email and email servers work.
Moving on, I have an old server with an old ...
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Getting notified of failed cron jobs
I'm concerned that cron jobs can fail silently for an indefinite period of time on vanilla Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 (Precise), and no one will notice. I would like to get a notification whenever a ...
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IMAP migration tool
I currently have several email accounts on 1 domain with a hosting service who runs an IMAP server for me. I'd like to migrate all email accounts to a new server.
I don't know the distro. The server ...
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Devcot in Docker Mailserver not starting
I have downloaded the container "docker-mailserver" and I am launching it via Portainer stack. When the stack executes, it always gets stuck with a dovecot error. The below happens inside ...
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Problem installing opendmarc
I am trying to install opendmarc on an Ubuntu 18.04.5 server.
During apt-get install opendmarc I get:
Job for opendmarc.service failed because the control process exited
with error code. See "...
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Exim PanicLog has Non-Zero Size...?
I'm getting the following error from my Ubuntu server:
exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on (my server FQDN) has non-zero size, mail system might be broken.
I found a solution on the web here. ...
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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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Web Mail client setup for postfix server
I have an Ubuntu server with postfix installed.
How can I set up a simple webmail package, so I can send email from a web interface to and from the local accounts and gmail?
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Slow email receiver in postfix configured on Ubuntu
We are sending emails to destinations and the email traffic is high but recipient server is not accepting all emails due to their security rules and source emails can't be restricted.
How to deal or ...
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Nodemailer not working with local smtp server
I have setup local smtp server in my linux machine.
The following command works and successfully received mail from test@<machine-name>.
echo “THIS IS A TEST EMAIL” | mail -s "This is ...
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What is the Best Practice to switch between Old and New Email Server to minimize outage?
I have been using self built email servers for years now on Ubuntu Server with Postfix + Dovecot.
Once before, I have decided to build a newer email server, and I called it by a different Fully ...
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How to set up mail server (postfix or anything else) on Ubuntu?
I have installed Ubuntu Bionic on my virtual machine and have an application set up.
Now what I need is to send emails from my own server.
I am trying to set up postfix to do that but nothing works. ...
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How to unistall mailcow from terminal?
I have recently installed mailcow from terminal using the following commands
$cd /opt
$sudo git clone https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
$cd mailcow-dockerized
I tried to uninstall using ...
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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 configure DNS records for mail server not also registered as name server
I have a single server (server1.host.com single static ip address 12.34.56.78) setup as follows:
1.apache (websites)
client1.com,
client2.com
client3.com
2.postfix/dovecot (SMTP and IMAP)
info@...
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Server won't receive emails from Instagram
I am having issues receiving emails from instagram to my server domain.
The email works fine (to and from) everywhere else.
Facebook also wouldn't send to a different email using the same domain.
Any ...
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iRedMail + Apache + MySQL + Ubuntu 20
I have VSP with Ubuntu 20. There is already installed Apache and Mysql. Is it possible to install and run iRedMail server on this device? I started with Mail-in-a-box mail server but it requires fresh ...
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web and mail server under same ip with different names
i have followed this Digital Ocean Mail-in-a-box tutorial to set up Mail server in existing Web server.
hostname: box.somename.com
i also have domain with
Domain name: www.somename.com
Name ...
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Dovecot 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.3 not logging failed authentication on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS server
I am running Dovecot 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.3 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS server. My postfix/dovecot self hosted mail server works fine! I can send and receive mail without any problem. All the packages ...
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Postfix Send-Only SMTP Server domain name configuration
I found 2 ways of sending mails from Linux/bash :
through a service , like sSMTP, which implies using an external SMTP server, like gmail
through Postfix server, which configures the Linux server to ...
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How to setup iredmail or dovecot with ssl ubuntu? [closed]
How to setup iredmail or dovecot with ssl ubuntu?
i want to create emails and connect them to lampp server
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How to change Helo Address?
Right now my Helo Address = localhost (helo=localhost). Is it better to set this to my server's domain name? If so, how do I change it? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and Postfix. Thanks.
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What replaced mail-stack-delivery?
Trying to install mail-stack-delivery on 19.10 Eoan I see it's now a transitional package that only installs dovecot-core. Before it used to install both Dovecot and Postfix and write a basic config ...
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simple method to install a mail server
I am looking for a simple way to install a mail server on my Ubuntu server. I would like to be able to receive and send emails though a webmail (e.g. roundcube).
I have a domain name. The web server ...
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What simpler mail server can I use instead of postfix?
I have a home server which needs a mail server for error messages, mostly.
I used postfix but I find the features/complexity compromises not optimal for my home server: there are tens of lines to ...
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Server hangs on reboot when clam is running
In a nutshell
Rebooting normally takes under 1 minute, but if clamav-daemon is running, a reboot will take 30 minutes exactly.
Overview
I have a Ubuntu 15.10 "cloud" mail server: postfix, dovecot, ...
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postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS can't find sasl_password or sasl_password.db
I followed this slightly outdated tutorial for setting up my ubuntu server as a send-only mail server using my FastMail account as an SMTP relay but I ran into some problems.
When I start the postfix ...
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Mail Server: system requirements
I want to create a mail server for personal use. It will be used mainly by me and possibly some family members.
The system load will be in the order of 5-10 IMAP mailboxes, all for "human" use: no ...
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When i'm sending the mail it's not delivering to the recipent here is the log ........can anyone help me what i need to configure?
mail -s "test mail" [email protected] < messagebody.txt
Dec 16 06:45:23 Ambidextrous postfix/pickup[16021]: D493648123F: uid=1000 from=<praveen@Ambidextrous>
Dec 16 06:45:23 Ambidextrous ...
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UFW blocks all traffic after enabled
I have Ubuntu 16.04 mail server. Suddenly ufw block all traffic (incoming and outgoing). I have not changed any config files.
What can I do now? When I turn on ufw, all traffic is blocked.
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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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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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Swap memory usage high on server
I am observing high swap memory usage on my server host.But I do not see the same memory usage on both of the VMs.
Host memory usage:
total used free shared buff/...
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How to set Thunderbird leave messages on server in Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm trying to set up Thunderbird with secondary mail account and want it to leave messages on server. There was such a feature, at least in Windows earlier, like this:
But I can't see those tick box ...
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Setting up freshly installed Ubuntu 19.04 to send out mail with PHP application
I have a brand new ubuntu 19.04 install and I want to send emails from it via my PHP application. What software should I use if I want to send it from my server? And what software would I need if I ...
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Ubuntu, postfix, dovecot mail server cannot configure with Outlook or Thunderbird mail client
I have successfully configured my email server with digital-ocean ubuntu 18.04 LEMP droplet and everything work fine so far. I can send & receive email and also successfully configured with round-...
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Can't send emails from the terminal [duplicate]
I setup a basic email sending only server on my laptop using the following
sudo tasksel install mail-server
But for some reason I didn't get asked what kind of installation I want to do, i.e. a ...
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help me my server seems to be sending spam!
Running on Ubuntu 18, pretty recently installed server (started a couple of weeks ago, installation is not yet finished...). Trying to setup a simple mail server to send mail from php and host a few ...
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Can I have a mail server and use gmail at the same time?
I am configuring a mail server (vps)
I installed Postfix and Roundcube, after some hours of configuration I got the connection with MySql and gmail working, the problem is I don't have a user yet so ...
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Is it safe to delete folders for unused accounts in var/mail?
My colleague sadly died last year, and managed the Dovecot accounts on our ancient Ubuntu (6.10) server, and I know absolutely zero about Dovecot or email server admin.
We have several discontinued ...
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Sending email from Gmail account to local Ubuntu server
I have configured postfix on ubuntu 14.04 and can send email from command line to my personal Gmail account.
Now I want to send email from my Gmail account to my Ubuntu server. How can I do that?
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Postfix.Dovecot/mysql mailserver setup
I started setting up my mail-server in February. I haven't been able to get it working since. I also haven't been able to get issue specific guidance from google.
My issue as it stands now is as ...
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Strange symbols in front of suspicious services
I have an EC2 instance running a postfix-dovecot email server. I use an AWS security key to access this EC2 and I consider the security pretty tight.
When I run: systemctl list-units --type service --...
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