Sending, receiving, reading, composing, sorting, and generally working with email. For the mail(1) command line utility, see the tag /mail-command.
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How to delete a range of mails in Solaris using the 'mail' command?
I have some 1k+ mails in an inbox (old cronjob stdout), how to delete them in bulk?
I'm on Solaris 8 and I have only mail available, no pine or mutt or similar "UI"-based client.
Inline help and ...
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configure postfix to accept mail from two WANs
I have a mac server but my question has long left the realm of the GUI. My last hope is a unix forum.
I have a cisco router with two WAN ports. The mac uses postfix 2.8.3. I have correctly ...
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How to send an email to myself on the same local machine (tcp port 25)
Does anyone know how to sent email to myself?
I am trying to generate TCP traffic on port 25.
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Gajim can't connect to gmail anymore
When I open Gajim and try to connect to my gmail account, it gets me the following:
Insecure connection window pops up. (as shown in the attached figure)
When I choose to connect insecurely, I get ...
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Cron logs describe a successful run that never happened
I run a daily job that uploads data from one server to another, and today I noticed that it failed silently two days ago - no mail got sent, and the jobs were never run. But when I look at the crontab ...
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local email storage syncing to imap - mutt-friendly
Summary
My problem: I want to read email offline with my choice of client (mutt), but I want actions like moving emails, etc. to be kept in two-way snc with an imap server.
My question: Is there a ...
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rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred
I'm trying to move my emails Maildir from an old centos server to a new debian server.
rsync -avz /home/me/Maildir ssh root@ipaddress:/var/vmail/me/Maildir
I tried to copy an 8gb account, didn't ...
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Where is the setting for sending email to a system user with ssmtp?
I'm using ssmtp for sending email (the setting is below)
Now when i run a cron command or an at command, mail is sent to
michel@mypi
which is username @ machinename
Now ofcourse this is not a ...
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Postfix header_checks
I want to forward a copy of the users email which has the specific subject. I have tried the below settings, able to Redirect that particular subject mail. But I want to forward a copy of that mail to ...
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Is there a way to store mail attachments outside of mailboxes?
Nowadays, size limits on mail attachments are less comprehensible by traditional users. I am looking for a way to extract mail attachments as simple files that I would be able to manage elsewhere.
On ...
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Why isn't Gnus scoring emails based on the To: or Cc: headers?
I use Gnus v5.13 in GNU Emacs 24.1.1 to read my email, and I'm having a trouble getting a simple score file to work. Essentially, I want any mail that's sent to (or copies) a particular email address ...
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Postfix configuration - keep the envelops
I have a postfix server that delivers mail and send a copy of the outgoing mail to a second server for content analysis using the following configuration (addresses and IPs have been replaced):
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Autocompletion of email addresses in vim
I'm playing around with various bits of an email solution, including notmuch and alot. I write my emails in vim and I'd like to have tab completion of email addresses while writing email. Is there a ...
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Unix mail command not sending email
I'm having trouble trying to send email with the unix mail command.
Currently I'm trying this:
echo "something" | mail -s "test mail" [email protected]
But when I check my email, I haven't received ...
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syncing two maildirs
I have a server that I use to frequently get email from Google using offlineimap. the email is stored in a maildir format on this server.
What tool can I use to sync this maildir with the local ...
