Questions tagged [postfix]
Open source email server for Unix
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Postfix SASLnot workign on upgrade to 19.10
I upgraded from 18.04LTS to 19.10. However, postfix with SASL (cyrus) has stopped working. It is configured as a smarthost/relay for smtp.office365.com:587 using the normal methods as described widely....
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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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Change server mail from postfix to sendmail virtualmin
Hi I have already install an ubuntu server with postfix and sendmail mail servers.Although postfix runs perfectly when I go to Virtualmin panel>Virtual Configuration>And choose sendmail mail server to ...
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Mails sent from the command line not appearing in inbox or spam folder
I sent some test mails using the command line. In the log I can see that status = sent, but I am not getting any emails in my inbox or spam folder.
Oct 11 15:51:01 ip-10-0-1-80 postfix/local[20606]: ...
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Ubuntu Server, Postfix, Localhost, Temporary Lookup Failure
I installed Ubuntu Server 18.04, installed Apache, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman, etc from the Ubuntu Server guide on Ubuntu Documentation website and I am getting this error when ...
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Postfix + Ubuntu: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
On Ubuntu 18.04 server, I use Webmin and Virtualmin to manage the server and the virtual host.
Looking at the file: /var/log/mail.log
I have this:
Sep 5 12:11:50 ns3147326 postfix/smtpd[17356]: ...
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No email message when attachment is sent
I am writing a script that sends log files via the terminal to my email address. It appears, that when I'm using the -A flag, the message itself does not show in the email.
echo "This is the message ...
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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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Connect to postfix from two different servers with two different user/pass combinations
I have 3 vps servers: two of them hosting a website each and a third one hosts postfix.
VPS [1]: domainone.com
VPS [2]: domaintwo.com
VPS [3]: smtp.domainthree.com
How do i connect from vps [1] to ...
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Can Admin Notifications by Email be Set up without an FQDN?
I am attempting to migrate a personal/family server from AWS to a local Ubuntu 18.04 server. I want to experiment with this local server for possibly months before cancelling the AWS server, so prefer ...
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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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Update Libreoffice and Delete Evolution mail client
I just update Libreoffice because it wasn't working properly by:
snap install libreoffice
But I install a newer version and keep the old one. And did not get the programs working yet.
So I update ...
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Why doesn't postfix/dovecot receive mails from Gmail?
I'm setting up a Postfix server that use Dovecot SASL Authentication on a EC2 virtual machine with an ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. I can send mails to my Gmail account but I cannot receive them. It supposed ...
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Postfix outgoing SMTP: "connection timed out"
I have a little problem with my postfix. The thing is that I can receive emails but when I send an email I get a Connection timed out error.
connect to outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com[104.47.5....
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Postfix trying to contact wrong server when sending emails?
I'm new to Linux servers and am trying to setup a Drupal site.
However, when the site sends an email, postfix/SMTP tries to contact the local web server, and the connection is refused.
I've been ...
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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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why sed is not replacing special character <
I am trying to replace charater < with empty or no charaeter in this file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
My script is
sudo sed -i 's/\<\/etc\/dovecot\/private\/dovecot\.pem/\/etc\/dovecot\/...
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Find the process that is shutting down or killing a program or service in Linux
In my situation, Postfix mysteriously shuts itself down: postfix/postfix-script stopping the Postfix mail system
On a fresh Ubuntu 18.04, when I run
service postfix start
It starts up, but the a few ...
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Send email to gmail using postfix
I am trying to send an email to my gmail using postfix. I am using bash on ubuntu on windows 10. I have tried the website tutorials and was unsuccessful.
main.cf:
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf....
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Can't send email from Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS inside Vmware [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS installed on Vmware, inside Windows.
Using terminal, I'm trying to send a test e-mail using this command:
echo "Test Email message body" | mail -s "Email test subject" ...
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Postfix and GMail
I have set up postfix on a server that it forwards root mail to my Gmail. I have a problem with postfix.
When mail from root@mydomain come to Gmail it goes to Inbox Folder and Send Folder. The Send ...
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Removing mail-stack-delivery doesn't remove its components
Once I installed mail-stack-delivery
$ sudo apt-get install mail-stack-delivery
I decided I wanted something else, so I tried to uninstall it
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mail-stack-delivery
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Regex for fail2ban config file to match pregreet lines in mail.log
The lines in mail.log to match are like:
May 6 10:06:16 mikes-serverbox postfix/postscreen[15486]: PREGREET 14 after 0.1 from [173.225.99.104]:57130: EHLO ylmf-pc\r\n
May 9 11:36:36 mikes-...
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How to reject incoming e-mail with Postfix?
I would like postfix to not accept incoming mail. I do however use it for sending e-mail, so I cannot simply uninstall it.
How can I configure postfix to reject all incoming mail?
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Error when installing postfix 18.04 LTS
Haven't done much on this machine yet but when I try to install Postfix it does this to me. I am trying to build an email server for my Linux class.
root@mail:~# sudo apt-get install postfix -y
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Postfix--running--SMTPS still is closed
I have created a certificate and applied all the necessary changes to configuration files in the postfix.main and postfix.master files. I also edited the dovecot.file to enable SASL-AUTH. I have made ...
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Cannot send mail from command line, sasl authentication error
I followed the instructions here How to send an email using command line?, but it dont work. When I test mailing someone it return:
(SASL authentication failed; server smtp.gmail.com[74.125.130.109] ...
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change outgoing (send only) email from www-data@ to info@
Running Ubuntu Server 16.04
having searched for days and tried many things that did'nt work, here i am.
I have a PHP script that sends email (out bound only) to a list of subscribers and it works fine!...
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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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No report from backup.sh to mail
I have a problem with the backup report in Ubuntu Server 16.04. In /usr/local/bin I have backup.sh and for some time I do not get a report from this script to mail.
In /var/mail/nobody I see that ...
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DKIM failure 'body hash did not verify', but only on CRON output
I have successfully installed Postfix and OpenDkim on my server, and it's correctly signing mail from several different domains. The host we'll call webhost.example.com. It's running Ubuntu 18.04.2 ...
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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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Gmail does not receive mail from my server
Install Postfix on my server
You have set all settings
But the problem is that the server sends mail to all servers except Gmail
Have any of you experienced this problem before?
How can I solve it?
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Mail sent successfully but failed to be received
I tried to send mail to personal email
me@host:~$ mail -s "Sending a Tesing" [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
This is a testing mail.
The records :
me@host:~$ tail -n 15 /var/...
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Baffling menu when installing RKHunter
Someone advised me to install a program called rkhunter for security. I've tried to do so, just using the apt command at the terminal, but am presented with a weird message about e-mail servers.
I ...
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Ubuntu MX records
I am little confused about MX records.
At least I think that is the problem, I followed a lot of guides about how to setup postfix, postfixadmin, dovecot on my VPS with Ubuntu 16.04,
but I had no luck ...
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POP3 problem. Cannot receive mail in Thunderbird
I'm having trouble with Thunderbird. Again.
When I click Get Messages it gives me this error:
When I click OK I get this:
I tried to enter a new password. changed the user password twice but it ...
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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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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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Ubuntu postfix help
I now have this setup in postfix:
sudo nano main.cf
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/...
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Postfix: Allow only one specific sender to send email
I want to allow only one sender with a specific address to send email on the localhost
main.cf
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/senders,
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senders
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Dovecot-mysql has unresolved dependancies
I have set up a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server with a LAMP + Postfix + Dovecot setup. Almost everything is working but I am getting an issue with dovecot dependencies. I have installed dovecot-core using ...
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hostname and /etc/hosts
I intend to purchase a domain, say for instance muppets.org, for my web server and I would like to install Postfix on the same machine for sending transactional emails.
Am I expected to set as ...
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Postfix using gmail relay without a domain name gets dns error
When I send mails using sendmail or mutt, /var/log/mail.log shows that emails get delivered to smtp.gmail.com. I can actually see the email appearing in my Gmail outbox. However, I receive an error ...
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How to use cron job to execute python script that sends emails without using MTA?
I've defined a cron job which use python script to send mails to office365 users emails from office365 email.
15 16 * * * 3 cd /home/path_to_app && /home/path_to_env/flaskvenv/bin/python -m ...
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Ubuntu Server 18.04 with Postfix
Good Day,
I have POSTFIX + Courier-IMAP + Courier-POP on UbuntuServer 18.04; The server has two network cards; 1 card connected to the Internet with Dynamic IP and the other card to the local network....
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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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Sending email via gmail smtp ubuntu 18.04 php
In RoR in order to send email from the application, we simply provide smtp settings for gmail and the server start using them to send emails.
I have bought Active Super Shop Multi-vendor CMS which ...
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Postfix is not logging anything to journal
I'm trying to get journalctl in Ubuntu 18.04 to log everything, or mostly everything at least.
One thing that I noticed was, that postfix does seem to log to journal.
I can clearly see entries when I ...
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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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