Questions tagged [sendmail]
Sendmail is a mail transfer agent that facilitates sending email. It typically involves a local email server, and so is unlike email clients such as Evolution and Thunderbird.
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Can't figure out how an old email relay is set up -- need to change passwords
I have an old server running that is poorly documented. At some point I changed how the email sending worked (sending cron messages and from Drupal ). I can't figure out where the relay/password ...
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Using sendmail to send notifications (Fail2Ban) through Postfix relay
I'm still pretty much a complete neophyte when it comes to Ubuntu/Linux in general, but I'm familiar with how sending mail via SMTP works in general. So now I currently have two Ubuntu servers running ...
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git send-email setup failure
I am unable to setup git send-mail to send a patch.
os platform: Ubuntu22.04 LTS
linux kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic
git virsion: 2.34.1
I following these two guides.
git setup guide
microsoft smtp ...
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Schedule sending with thunderbird mail merge adds on
Is it possible to add a column in the CVS file containing the required send times ( scheduled times ) then I add it to thunderbird mail merge because I want to send emails separately ( for ex one ...
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Sendmail to send system emails
Is there a way to send an email to my Gmail account, each time I get a system email from Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.10 and has Sendmail installed and working (sending emails from/to my Gmail account)....
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How do I setup etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.cf for testing the sendmail command on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to send a test email through port 25 to service provider?
Installation:
$ sudo apt install sendmail
Rhe following packages will be REMOVED
postfix
Desktop: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (NOT server)
File: /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Edited with:
$ sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Sendmail no longer works since Gmail discontinued support for less secure apps
Since Gmail discontinued support for "less secure apps," Sendmail stopped working because I had configured it to interface with my Gmail account.
I tried enabling "App Password" in ...
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Command line sendmail quit working after June 6
Since June 6 all scripts sending mail to my gmail account have stopped working and Thunderbird is asking repeatedly to enter my password, which has not changed in the last week.
I am running Ubuntu 20....
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Is there a way to view the message-id (msgid) when receiving email using the Linux mail command?
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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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sendmail hangs / mail hangs
On all computers, sendmail works great except for one.
All have the exact same /etc/mail config folder setup, I used rsync to make sure they all match.
Normally this command works just fine...
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Help with sendmail on new LAMP linux installation
Hi I installed sendmail.
sudo apt-get install sendmail
sudo sendmailconfig # accept Y all defaults
echo "My test email being sent from sendmail" | /usr/sbin/sendmail [email protected]
I ...
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smtp send email on unattended upgrades in Ubuntu
Hello I have setup unattended upgrades on my Ubuntu 20.04 server with msmtp and sendmail.
And want to send the result of Unattended-Upgrade to my email. But the email is not sending by Unattended-...
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Using CLI "mail" command
I feel a little silly asking this question... as the answer may be quite simple... but searching here on AU, or on Google, or man mail, hasn't given me the answer.
If I start mail, I see this:
"/...
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configuring sendmail on ubuntu 20.04
I'm trying to configure the sendmail on my ubuntu, the following should install the necessary packages:
sudo apt-get install sendmail sendmail-cf m4
But then when I'm changing the sendmail.mc file ...
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What is needed for nagios to send emails?
i have installed nagios4 from ubuntu repository packages in a kvm guest running ubuntu server 20.04. i am able to invoke sendmail manually and can send emails. However nagios isn't sending any ...
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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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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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Postfix aborts installation after upgrade to 20.04
I cannot install Postfix on Ubuntu 20.04 after upgrading from 16.04 and previously using sendmail. The output below occurs while attempting to install Postfix using apt:
Job for postfix.service ...
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msmtp: sendmail: account default not found: no configuration file available (system wide configuration)
I am trying to setup Ubuntu 20.04 with msmtp as a system configuration.
I installed msmtp (v1.8.6-1) and heirloom-mailx (v12.5-2+deb7u1build0.14.04.1).
Config file /etc/msmtprc (chmod: 600) has the ...
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Sendmail config
I need to configure Sendmail server using ubuntu, and I get error permission denieded even if I am connected as a root :
Here is the error message
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGpIG.png
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Where is cf/README? It's supposed to be with the configuration files
The main documentation for configuring sendmail is in a file at sendmail/cf/README. For some reason it isn't here on my 18.04 server.
Note that this file is referred to in other documentation within ...
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Using sendEmail with Gmail
I try to sending an E-Mail via Gmail and sendEmail. I have try some configurations but nothing works.
sendEmail \
-o tls=yes \
-f [email protected] \
-t [email protected] \
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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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How to send e-mail with attachment from terminal?
I'm new to Ubuntu. Can anybody help me about how to send emails from terminal?
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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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Send mail using old domain
I have just sent a test email through PHP from my server using mail-tester.com.
The Received: section states the following:
Received: from OLD_domain_name (ptr_record_for_ip [my.ip.address])
Old ...
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Unattended Upgrades email from address
I am ubuntu 19.04 and have found sSMTP no longer works properly and have switched over to msmtp and msmtp-mta for sendmail alias. I am in the process of getting unattended upgrades setup. It is ...
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How can i setup and configure sendmail SMTP server to send bulk emails in UBUNTU?
I am working on an assignment in which i have to send bulk emails with sendmail SMTP server.
I have tries many tutorial to setup sendmail server to send bulk emails but nothing helps me.
Can anyone ...
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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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Job for fail2ban.service failed because the control process exited with error
I have a basic issue on getting fail2ban started on one of my machines. I have a machine with Ubuntu 16.04 freshly installed today, and I am following a variety of instructions on fail2ban from source ...
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Error Sendmail-base
After upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10, my laptop error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 ...
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Setup mail for lamp
I am trying to setup mail mail for my server but when i try to run command sudo apt install sendmail it gives me
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
i have done all ...
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Sending mail through bash used to work, no longer working
4 months ago I made a .sh script to send myself my IP address every some time to be able to connect to my computer remotely with ssh. For a few months I didn't use it cause I worked at home.
I'm about ...
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Cannot install sendmail or update Ubuntu [duplicate]
I am trying to install sendmail, however whenever I run sudo apt-get install sendmail, I end up with the following error messages:
Err:1 http://mt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/main amd64 ...
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does heirloom-mailx need sendmail?
I installed the heirloom-mailx package and tried to use mailx to send an email:
$ echo "heirloom mailx works!" | mailx -s "Server mail" [email protected]
However the operation did not succeed:
Cannot ...
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Trace PHP file that triggered sendmail
Something in my system is sending mails I am not expecting. I can see the mail items in /var/log/mail.log but I am very interested in figuring out exactly which file in my web application is ...
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Russian words in 'From' Sendmail
How to set Russian letters 'from' header in mail?
Example:
I use Webasyst Mailer app and PHP to send emails.
How to set this in sendmail?
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SendMail 503 error Ubuntu ["Unrecognized host name gmail.com."]
Unrecognized host name gmail.com.
503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
This error if i send mail in any email *@gmail.com
How do I enable sending mail to all addresses?
news@ovz1:~$ nslookup gmail.com
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dpkg command interrupted while running sendmail
I was installing sendmail on my Homestead virtualbox, it got stuck at one point and I used control+c to break it.
Now when I try to run sudo apt-get upgrade, it tell me that dpkg was interrupted, try ...
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suddenly mail is stop working for linode
Sendmail is stopped sending mail suddenly.
/etc/init.d/sendmail status
MSP: is run via cron (20m)
MTA: 5425 /usr/sbin/sendmail-mta -Am -L sm-mta -bd -q10m
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Ubuntu 16.04 command line sendmail installation hanged
I was trying to install sendmail but it is hanging while trying to generate ssl certificates. I have canceled the installation process and later killed processes that was locking any new packages from ...
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sendmail error: No such file or directory
I am trying to use sendmail out of the box using the default configuration. (I just need an MTA to deliver mail out from my application.) When I try to send a mail, I get:
Cannot write ./...
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How to configure Unattended Upgrades to send emails to all users?
I have a Workstation installed with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I would like to automate the maintenance job every 4 months by sending out an email to all users registered on the machine one week before ...
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unsafe map file /etc/mail/access.db: Permission denied
when sending mail through Sendmail an error is displayed:
vectortrade sm-mta[16951]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "access": unsafe map file /etc/mail/access.db: Permission denied
what rights ...
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Mediawiki doesn't send any email
My mediawiki installation (1.28.0, PHP 7.0.13) doesn't send any email and yet there is no error emitted. I checked using Special:EmailUser page.
What I have tryed:
1) A simple PHP script to send a ...
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How to configure sendmail correctly?
I need to send emails by a PHP script.
I have removed Postfix and configured sendmail, but I am getting too problems.
When I execute the next command:
test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && test -...
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Setting up sendmail on a server without webserver
I want to use sendmail so that fail2ban can send me notifications. I have read multiple guides on how to set it up, but I cannot get it to work.
What I have done so far:
apt-get install sendmail
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Trying to set up Catch-All Email Address with Sendmail
I'm trying to create a catchall email address with Sendmail (it will be used to catch email bounces for Oceth's OEMPro).
First I started by creating a new user:
# useradd -s /bin/false bounces
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Installation of sendmail
I'm trying to install Sendmail, but I got some "Warnings". Could anyone is able to tell me what I have to do to fix it?
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Sendmail 8.14 get rid of success delivery status notification (DSN) generation
I have been using sendmail since 1995. I have an Ubuntu 12.04LTS server which my best information is, uses sendmail 8.14.4. I am having a problem that mail is coming in from an IP address addressed ...
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