Questions tagged [mail]
This tag is used when the question is about real mail. Such as asking how to get a copy of Ubuntu in the mail. If you have questions regarding email, please use the the email tag.
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DNS Records Configuration - Going Straight to Spam Box?
I know that in order to hit the inbox, the main DNS records need to be properly set up. These are the main DNS records that every mail delivery system should have for their domain:
TLS
A
MX
DKIM
SPF
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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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How to remove hyphens in signature in evolution mail [duplicate]
When we design our signature in evolution mail, 2 dashes are automatically added before the signature, like this:
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regards
fram
How can we remove those two hyphens?
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530,5.7.0SMTP server error: MAIL FROM command failed Detail: Authentication Required
PHP Mail error with the message:
530,5.7.0SMTP server error: MAIL FROM command failed Detail: Authentication Required
Following are the key sections of my PHP Script.
new PHPMailer(true)
Host as '...
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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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mail (gnu mailutils) 3.4 not able to send an attachment
We upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 and now we are not able to send emails with attachments.
On Ubuntu 14.04, we have mailutils 2.2 and we used to use the following command
mail -s "...
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Libreoffice dysfonctional mail merge
Ubuntu 19.10/LibreOffice 6.3.5.2
Mail merge (by email) does not work. I checked:
the db calc document contains a column with valid emails
the SMTP connection from libreoffice was tested
In the ...
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sSMTP, mail, aliases
I setup ssmtp to send email messages from my Ubuntu server to an external email address.
Using the mail command of the mailutils package, I am able to receive emails from my server sent via :
$echo ...
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Local mail is (almost) never checked in gnome-terminal, how can I change that?
Context : I know a "console" login (with "Ctrl-Alt-Fx") provides a local mail check (of /var/mail/$USER), but a Ubuntu user is not expected to use this for daily use. Instead it is advised to use ...
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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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mail with body/message from remote file over ssh + attachment
With mail (from mailutils), the only way to send an email that has an html message and an attachment is to include the message from a file, like this:
mail \
--content-type=text/csv --attach=/tmp/...
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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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fully track of a mail in evolution. Thread of a mail
How can I see the thread of in a evolution conversation so that it includes my answers to the conversation?
Evolution's way of showing threads is only from incoming emails.
That is, how can I fully ...
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How to add Tutanota Desktop Client as Default Mail App (Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS)
I'm setting up my computer and I have most everything I want set up, but the problem I'm running into is my email is handled by Tutanota, which is proprietary and cannot be added to generic email ...
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Movemail report error "cannot open: Invalid reply from the remote host"
I tried to employ movemail upon imap as
movemail imap://[email protected]:993 nivfomuguessme ~/RMAIL
and alternatively
movemail imap://abst.proc.do:[email protected]:993 ~/RMAIL
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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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Facebook Messenger app/notifications on Linux 2019?
Searching only brings up old results from around 2013 or 2014. How is the state of things for Facebook notifications on Linux? Is there an app that notifies me when new messages arrive? Any kind of ...
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Fail2ban not sending email
I set up Fail2ban as per this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban
I tried looking in several pages among others:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25890510/fail2ban-not-sending-email-...
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Any alternative for dbmail for Ubuntu 18.04 Package
I tried to install dbmail package in my Ubuntu 18.04, But it looks like, the package was long ago removed from the repository.
Is there any other alternative package for dbmail for Ubuntu 18.04?
The ...
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Not receiving mail notification
I recently installed Nagios Core 4.4.3, after a while I wanted to set up mail notification, I installed Postfix (GMAIL SMTP Config) and the config seems to be fine as I tried to send some mails but ...
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Postfix | Because When I send a email to Gmail, this is received as spam?
I had installed Postfix with the configuration mode: Internet SIte
My file /etc/postfix/main.cf have follow it:
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian ...
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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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How to configure nullmailer to work with mailchimp?
As my title said i have some problem with configuration of nullmailer.
Basicaly I have been following this website.
I have made an account on Mailchimp - where I have send succesfully the test mail. ...
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Neither mail, nor mutt sends emails with file attaches
My web provider recently changed from Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04. This broke an automated script I use to send emails with no body, but with an attach. I shortened the code below to simplfy.
This used to ...
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How to send mail from linux system with linux_username in 'from' field and [email protected] in 'to' field
I'm using mailutils and sendmail, I have installed it and configured using command 'sudo sendmailconfig'. When I use command
echo "Message Body" | mail -s "Message Subject" [email protected]
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Installing Tar file [duplicate]
I have downloaded the iredmail tar file iRedMail-0.9.9.tar.bz2, and placed it ia a folder named iRedMail. Can some one give ma step-by-step instruction how I install it on Ubuntu 18.04? I will very ...
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Anacron wants to use sendmail. Why?
I am using Ubuntu 18.10 and have added a short script to anacrontab. Now I get this log warning from Anacron:
Can't find sendmail at /usr/sbin/sendmail, not mailing output
I use the default ...
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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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Emails that forward back to us from external SMTP server
I have a Mail server (FQDN: mail.ours.com) using Postfix and Dovecot, users having email address like [email protected]. Like many others SMTP server, if user claim that they are from @ours.com, they need ...
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"For mail merge to work properly, LibreOffice must be restarted"
I have the LibreOffice that comes by default with Ubuntu 2018.04 LTS, all updated.
In Writer's Tools menu I noticed this intriguing item called Mail Merge Wizard… so I clicked on it. The following ...
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Someone used my postfix to send mails
I just received mail from my server provider that my server is sending mails..i don't know about these mails and i never used smtp of that server before..can anyone guide me how this is possible?...
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Send system mail Ubuntu 18.04
Hello I have looked at many different guides on the web for how to send system mail to my gmail from ubuntu 18.04 in case of problems on the device / server - But can't find a simple guide that i ...
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Forward "local mails" to external SMTP server
I have a standalone 18.04 server just for running a simple LAMP website. Sometimes when I log in to the server I get notified that I have mail (like cron/at job outputs), and then I read them using ...
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mdadm - setting faulty device doesn't result in new mail in the root mailbox
If I understand correctly, mdadm is supposed to mail root when something fails because it has
MAILADDR root
in mdadm.conf
But
sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --set-faulty /dev/sdb1
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sudo ...
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Can no longer send mail. Suspecting /etc/resolv.conf shenanigans
Alerts are now down so would like to fix this properly:
delivery temporarily suspended: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=gmail.com type=MX: Host not found, try again
I have ...
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Restoring /etc/mail to defaults
I ran into issues configuring Sendmail and messed up the /etc/mail folder's files, so I deleted /etc/mail entirely. How can I now start fresh in my journey of attempting to configure Sendmail by ...
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Set email for different domains
I need to set up a mailserver. I've several different domains and I need to set up different emails for each other.
For example:
domain1.com -> [email protected]
domain2.com -> [email protected]
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Problem with mailutils, ubuntu 18.04
Can someone help me about this problem, I've tried to find out where the problem is comming from, but have no luck, I've tried to re-install postfix and mailutils, but still have this problem, if ...
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send email via curl error "curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number"
I have an Ubuntu Server v18.10. I am only allowed to install openssh, openvpn, & curl. I have scripts that need to send emails. I have a windows background & I am beginner\intermediate for ...
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Authorization error when using PHP mail function
I just noticed emails sent using a contact form in wordpress wasn't delivering and then I checked the mail log and found the following error:
Authorization failed (535 Authentication failed: Bad ...
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What mail software allows archiving (rather than deleting) like in Gmail?
It appears that Sylpheed, the default mail software for Lubuntu 18.04, deletes mail rather than archiving it, but I am still trying to verify that I'm not overlooking some hidden option.
What ...
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Mailserver on Ubuntu 16.04
I know, there are like hundreds of tutorials to install "a mailserver" on Ubuntu 16.04, but I just don't seem to get it working and resetted my server the 4th time now....
What I would like to have ...
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Where should I look for logrotate config file of /var/log/mail.log
I would like to change the suffix of mail.log rotated files to include the date, such as
/var/log/mail.log.20180920
I read from this question that /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd should be changed, but I ...
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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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MULTIPLE DOMAIN ON A MAIL SERVER AND WEBMAIL
I have a mail server on ubuntu 16.04 with postfix and dovecot and in the same server run roundcube webmail. I access a roundcube webmail with https://webmail.domain1.com (ssl). I need multiple ...
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Unable to send mail externally using mailx on ubuntu 16.0.4
Unable to send email to external users using mailx command. Could you please help me with the steps to configure mailx command in ubuntu.
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Dovecot Godaddy Vps Gives error when installing with post fix
Iam trying to install dovecot on godaddy vps ubuntu 16 os i have installed postfix with smart host as godaddy works with relay server to send emails
When i am installing Dovecot gives me bellow ...
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Re-Sending an email from the command line
i want to reproduce a mail related problem regarding a mail that is sent from a system i have no control over.
For this purpose i want to mimic this problematic email.
I have the exact mail as it was ...
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Can you use Imapsync to sync shared mailboxes from office 365
I use Imapsync for some time now to sync mail accounts from one to the other server. Now I have several shared mailboxes in office 365 that I have to transfer. Can this also be done via imapsync and ...
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Add additional links to Unity Mail Notifier for Hotmail
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm exploring new features. I have set up Unity Mail notifier but links can only be configured for 1 account, not for Hotmail and Gmail both. Am I missing a setting ...