Questions tagged [mail]

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What is `postfix/smtps/smtpd` in my log file?

I know that postfix/smtpd is for incoming mails, smtp for outgoing mails. But I do see in my logfile several entries with postfix/smtps/smtpd. What is this for? Feb 22 10:57:55 mx postfix/smtps/smtpd[...
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How can I install pflogsumm for Postfix mail log analyzer?

I am useing Postfix mail server in Ubuntu 13.04. I want to install pflogsumm in my server and analyze the mail log. How can I do this?
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SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed SASL+PAM

I'm banging my head over this for past 4 hours, and I cannot crack it! Google turns out allot of issues related to SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed but none helped. Basically,...
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How are administrators supposed to read root's mail?

What is the Ubuntu way for system administrators to receive system notifications, which typically take the form of e-mail sent to the root account? Examples of such notifications are the output of ...
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/usr/sbin/anacron kills dovecot and postfix

I am running dovecot and postfix on a 22.04.3 LTS Ubuntu server. Every day at 6:25 first the dovecot server and then the Postfix server gets stopped (it started about a month ago). It starts again ...
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Dovecot - imap-login SSL_accept() failed

today i configured Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL from tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassassin Actual dovecot ...
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Why do I have TLS verification failure when trying to send mail via msmtp?

I am trying to send mail via smtp (using msmtp). The aim is to simply send via a yahoo mail account. I have configured it correctly (see bottom) so that if I run with the option --tls-certcheck=off, ...
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Easiest way to setup a SMTP server to receive mail?

I want to setup a SMTP server to receive all mails. I have only found mail sending software so far (like postfix). But I want to have software to make the server being able to receive mails. Bonus ...
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Set the PTR Record correct

I try to setup an PTR Record for my Domain. I can send mails but some emailservers reject my mail, because I have no PTR Record. I try it the last days but not working. Can anyone tell me what is ...
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How to solve Relay access denied error in Postfix

By seeing the mail.log, I see errors like this constantly: Dec 15 22:11:49 zeus postfix/smtpd[17078]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[163.247.55.22]: 454 4.7.1 <[email protected]>: ...
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How can I set-up Postfix to handle multiple domains?

I'm renting a VPS running Ubuntu, and I've installed the Postfix mail-server package on this. I've also bought several domains. Their DNS-entries (separate DNS-records) are all set to point to my ...
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IMAP mail gatherer with correct behavior of setting mail as read

At first I tried fetchmail with the given config. The problem was that all mails in the inbox would be marked as read in IMAP server upon running fetchmail: set postmaster danial set no bouncemail ...
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Kmail not sending mail

I am asking this here because I could not find a solution anywhere on the web. KMail can currently receive my email but will not send any (either to mailing lists or to a regular address) The error it ...
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How can I access system mail in /var/mail/ via thunderbird?

I've got cron jobs sending mail to my user at /var/mail. I know how to access that at the command line with the mail command. But, while a big command line fan, I do not like reading mail (even system ...
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Unable to use mailx without sudo

I have recently "inherited" a number of cronjobs and other things from a former colleague. The scripts that are called regularly are supposed to send e-mails with error messages if something goes ...
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Bounce settings not connecting to iredmail server with correct authentication details

I am using a VPS Server, Abuntu 22.04, PHP 7.3 and Interspire Email Marketer (IEM). The errors below occurs when I set the bounce email (in IEM) the same as it was previously on another VPS server. ...
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mail client outlook focused inbox

I am looking for a mail client that allows me to only see the focused mails from Outlook. I have tested all different type of mail clients available in Ubuntu. But all of them don't give the options ...
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Postfix unable to send and receive emails

I have a new ubuntu server, version 23.04, where I have Webmin installed and through which I installed Postfix and Dovecot. I have a local user (eml_user1) that I want to have the email address ...
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Fail2Ban bans, iptables lists the block but connection is still not blocked

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I am trying to prevent repeated connection attempts to our mail server using fail2ban. Fail2ban creates a proper entry in the iptables configuration, but the related IP ...
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Setting up Postfix to do SPF checks

I'm trying to get our incoming mail set up to do SPF checks in hopes of cutting down on spoofed addresses. We run Postfix from the good old mail-stack-delivery package on Ubuntu 18.04. I followed this ...
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Thunderbird doesn't recognize email file format - attaches instead of opening a file

Is there a way to force thunderbird to open a file as an email instead of attaching it in a new email form? mbsync by default downloads files without extension, which confuses thunderbird (and some ...
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"Sending of the message failed" when trying to sign a message with a gpg key (Thunderbird 102.11.2) using a gmail account

I'm trying to troubleshoot why thunderbird may be refusing to send a message when adding a signature to it, but works fine otherwise? Is it possible that gmail is blocking/refusing to process gpg ...
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How does postfix intercept root's mail?

Quite a number of apps e.g. cron etc will send mail to root if there are errors. I saw some tutorials which involve installing postfix + quite a bit of configuration to have them forwarded to gmail or ...
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mail.google.com popup

I have Kubuntu 21.10 and recently reinstalled Plasma 5.22.5,and now receive an annoying popup Authentication Dialog "you need to supply a username and password to access this site mail.google.com&...
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Postfix continue sending mails with the hostname instead of the domain

I'm trying to configure Postfix to only send (not receive) emails. I have followed this guide, but I didn't change my hostname to match my domain, because if I can avoid it, I would like to do it. So,...
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Send email from command line with an image in the body (not as attachment)

I have a setup where I am sending an email using mailx with an attachment and that works OK. I am trying to send an email with the image in the body. Is there a way to do this - I tried several ...
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How do you output the contents of an .eml file [ Not including all of its metadata ] to the commandline in plaintext? [duplicate]

I can do this: cat foobar.eml Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by 2002:a4a:6c09:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id q9-v6csp1498994ooc; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:00:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-...
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How can I change EXIM4 config from warn on no reverse DNS to actively rejecting mails with no reverse DNS

By default EXIM4 only warns about mails with no reverse DNS. I need to block and actively reject mail which has no reverse DNS. I am willing to accept that it's possible that some legit mail will be ...
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How to change FROM name with mailutils?

I have a script that sends email with some server info regularly. I use following command within a script cat $msg |mail -r [email protected] -s "server event" [email protected] The ...
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I don't receive mail notification using Nagios Core 4

I have a problem with automatically mail notification in Nagios Core 4 installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) server... I have tried to send mail with the nagios user and root user ...
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Cannot remove E-mail in geary account list

Actually I wanted to try geary so I added an E-mail to try it out. now I want to remove my E-mail from geary accounts list, but "-" button is off and I cannot remove it (also I searched about it but ...
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Sending email with attachment

I am trying to use the mail command in a script to send emails with attachment. However, although the attachment is received, the body text is not. Here is the command I used: mail -A attachment.pdf -...
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How to install and send emails with Postfix

I am trying to install Postfix on a server and have it go through a relay. I would like to have the email with a custom domain, so I bought a domain and registered a A record to point to the relayHost'...
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Ubuntu server mail server

I wanted to ask if you could help me to start my own email server. I followed a tutorial to start my own mail server on my bought domain but something is not working.. I have a server on digital ocean ...
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How to migrate a remote mail server without having to notify its users?

I've got a remote mail server(henceforth A), based on this tutorial. Dovecot is the software used as the IMAP/POP3 mail server. I want to migrate every byte in A to another remote server(henceforth B),...
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Why do mail clients try to access my UBUNTU 20.04 Postfix (v3.4.13) outgoing mail server

I run a private mail server, however it is found by non associated mail clients that try to access the outgoing server smtp ports. Why and how does this happen? Is it hackers that look for machines ...
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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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Please install an MTA on this system if you want to use sendmail!

I get this message in /var/log/apache2/error.log everytime a cronjob on my desktop wgets a php page that tries to send an email. How can I install a dummy so this message is gone? I already have ...
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GnuBiff - Preferences

I try to use GnuBiff as a mail notification with no avail. My address mail is [email protected] So what settings shall I use at Preferances of GnuBiff ? Thanks in advance.
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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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Changing default domain in mailutils

I have installed mailutils on Ubuntu 12.10 and I have run into a problem where the domain being attached is the fully qualified host and not just the domain. For example, mail user2 [enter] then ...
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Is there a way to view the message-id (msgid) when receiving email using the Linux mail command?

0 I have a program that extracts email from the command line using the mail command as follows: The Message-ID/msgid is not part of the resulting email Is there a way to keep the message-id when ...
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How to install Thunderbird with Terminal

How to install Thunderbird using Terminal? I don't want to download from Ubuntu Software
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mailto links not opening after upgrade to Kubuntu 21.10

Ever since upgrading from Kubuntu 21.04 to 21.10, mailto links in both Firefox and Chromium don't work anymore. No error message when I click them, just nothing happens. Thunderbird is set as the ...
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Ubuntu 18 send email with crontab

SO: Ubuntu 18.04.6 Postfix: 3.3.0 GNUmailutils 3.4 I've a script that send email to office/outlook user. If I start script from terminal, email arrive correctly to user. If i set same script on ...
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Individual attachments in mail merge from thunderbird

I am trying to send multiple emails with unique fields from thunderbird with mail merge addon in ubuntu. How to add individual attachments using this method? I have tried adding a separate field ...
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Postfix Relay Access Denied But Spam Still Being Sent?

I am running a Postfix mailserver on Ubuntu 19.10 and have mynetworks set to localhost so any attempts to relay email are blocked - i.e.: telnet emailserver.com 25 helo testing.com mail from:<test@...
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msmtp logging doesn't work in /var/log/mail/[logfile].log

Good day I'm using msmtp to send mails. I have different accounts that log to different logfiles. Unfortunately whenever it tries to log the following error appears: send-mail: cannot log to /var/log/...
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mailutils in script versus command line

The following works fine as expected from command line: mail < /home/incoming/mailprocoutput.txt -s "Message Processing results..." -r [email protected] [email protected] cat ...
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root mail - postfix, etc

for reasons that I cannot seem to divine, my postfix keeps trying to deliver messages to root to root@[MyISP].com, which of course is getting rejected as invalid username by the SMTP gateway at [MyISP]...

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