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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Cannot access to mailboxes
I am trying to send mails internally in my mail server (for now), and it seems that i am not reaching my mailbox also in my mail server. I am using two mail clients, one is roundcubemail (installed in ...
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Count the number of processes and send a email to multiple people if it exceeds certain limit
As part of smooth functioning on my application I want to check a count of a particular process and send a email to multiple people if it exceeds certain limit.I have written script for counting ...
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Email Spoof Attacks! [on hold]
Please point me in the right direction if this isn't the best place to ask this but I manage a linux based (centos) server using Plesk.
We were subject to a spam attack a couple of months ago where ...
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Encrypted home folder and email
I'd like to encrypt my home folder in CentOS. I notice Dovecot has created directories and files under ~/mail. If I encrypt, will my email stop working (remote access over imap and smtp)?
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Kmail cannot send to smtp.office365.com
My corporate email is hosted by Office365. I think KMail is far more productive an email client than the Outlook Web Application (OWA), so I use IMAP to receive email and SMTP to send email.
I can ...
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how to restrict users on the network from being able to send emails to external recipients
we manage qmail and some postfix servers. I would like to know if is there any system by which my domain user can not send email to remote recipient directly. It can only send mail using their outlook ...
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''Rats, that failed, you may have to do it manually" you you [on hold]
I'm trying to configure Sup-mail with the command-line sup-config, but it failed. I got the message Rats, that failed, you may have to do it manually. Could anyone be able to tell me how could I fix ...
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Reading Local Emails via Outlook [closed]
In my Debian virtual machine I as "root" send an email to a user called "arman". I found a way to read this email on my Windows browser by the help of Squirrelmail and Apache2 packages that I ...
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Reducing Load On Server
I am having the strangest of issues with a cPanel server.
Basically the server is using very little CPU and Memory in comparisson to what it has available but still the server's load keeps driving up ...
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Cannot connect with getmail
I am unable to connect with getmail
getmail version 4.50.0
Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.
SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:##############@[email protected]....
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Create a action in Sylpheed to decrypt messages
If you like to decrypt messages in the Sylpheed email client the manual suggest to create a custom action to execute the following command:
*gpg2 --no-tty --batch --yes --command-fd 0 --passphrase-fd ...
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How to configure sendmail to listen to ports 25 and 587?
The provided sendmail.mc file is used to enable ports 587/submission and/or 465/smtps. The problem is that enabling either one disables port 25/smtp.
I only have one server and would like to use it ...
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Compile postfix with EAI support
I am using Centos 5.6 , trying to compile postfix-3.1.3 with EAI support. I am following this link http://www.postfix.org/SMTPUTF8_README.html and executing
yum install libicu-devel "dependencies"
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Postfix relay to one server from multiple users
I am trying to build a smart host in an Unix system, with Server app, Mail service and an Open Directory for local users.
My question is if there is a way to use an email just for forwarding mail ...
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Mail server blacklist checker
Is there a command line utility that checks if a specified mailserver is on some well-known blacklist?
I know amispammer but it is only available on Debian, it seems to be unmaintained and last time ...
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Restricting what users can send/receive mail to/from off-site destinations
I have around 2000 email accounts. How can I configure postfix in a way that some users can send/receive email to/from the internet and others not. I am following this manual to restrict sending so ...
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Exim retrieving attachments or forwarding email in queue
My mail server has gone down due to an attack and I am moving it to a secure cloud server.
Is there a way to redirect any incoming mail for a user to a different address, such as [email protected] will ...
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Adding aliases inboxes using Postfix
I set up Postfix to run locally and receive emails to myusername@localhost.
How do I add other addresses (e.g. test1@localhost, test@localhost etc) which would work as aliases for myusername@...
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retrieving host name from email address
I am trying to go through individual emails and retrieve the host name.
Each email has a To: section with an email address "[email protected]". I'm trying to retrieve just "aol.com"
Eg:
To: abc123@aol....
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how to send multiple attachment in 1 email using uuencode
I have a problem. I need to write a script that will find any file generated 1 day ago And then email it to certain mail-address from Tuesday to Sunday at 2 am?
The problem is my script finds the 3 ...
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Modify the “new mail” notification in mutt
When there is new mail in the current directory, mutt will notify the user by displaying "New mail in this mailbox".
How do I make this notification brightyellow and blinking?
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Command line to send email if CPU load is high
I want to write a one liner on the terminal to send email if cpu load is high. I have this one but its send everytime its run
while true; do
lsof -u nagios | wc -l;
b=15;
a=$(uptime | awk '{...
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regex - block Email addresses with any capital letters Email account names
I'd like to set one line of spam blacklist rule in Email server, blocking email addresses containing any capital letters with the Email account name. How should I set it?
Rule file content for ...
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linux can't send mail to gmail but it can to other mail address
something is very strange on my machine ( redhat 6 version )
when I do ( to send mail to my private mail )
sendmail [email protected] <test
it sends the email successfully, but when I ...
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Saved message in /usr/rp//dead.letter when sending e-mail on CentOS
We just changed a server from RHEL to CentOS. We have some scripts which run some reports and e-mail them. The part that does the e-mailing is below.
function email_report
{
( echo "Report ...
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How can I easily read many Maildir directories?
I have about 40 Maildir directories in /var/vmail/ with the structure of
Domain1.com
-- user
----- new
----- cur
----- tmp
Domain2.com
-- user
----- new
----- cur
----- tmp
Inside each of those ...
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Is there any way to forward mail from the command line in Linux
I'm looking at the mail command which fires off Heirloom Mail.
My procmail failed and it has 55 messages in the queue.
I need to forward them out to another email and then process them manually.
I'm ...
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How to make spamassassin not check whether an authenticated user is in a blacklist?
I am sure this is a common occurrence: a user (who has an IP that is in a blacklist or two ) is sending mail using his email provides server (with SMTP authentication), then that server is forwarding ...
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MailX not sending email when run as a Systemd service
I have a shell script that runs a clamav scan on a folder on my arch linux system and is supposed to email the results. Here's the code:
/usr/bin/clamscan -r -i /path/to/folder | /usr/bin/mailx -A ...
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Mail Server send/receive issues [closed]
I have set up a mailserver using Postfix, Dovecot as my SASL and Rainloop as my WebClient. I'm using MySQL (after asking my last question) for my user accounts and passwords, and it's working properly,...
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Mail Server user management issue using Postfix+Dovecot+RainLoop
I'm using mail server using postfix+dovecot (over TLS/SSL), RainLoop as my WebClient, and using auth-system.conf.ext so user's password will be read by/from pam.
Consider at least 10 users using this ...
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Tool to convert arbitrary MIME emails to plain text? (best effort)
I'm wondering if there is a command-line tool to do this:
Take as input an arbitrary MIME email and output a best-effort guess at a plain-text version of the email message.
Here is my ...
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How to block a port connection (Ex: GMAIL) for incoming mails and allow only for outgoing mails?
Is there a way to block connections for incoming requests for GMAIL at port level? Is it that all protocols use same port for incoming and outgoing connections?
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msmtp Empty TO and FROM Field - All mail ends up in Bulk Mail when sent from CLI or manually
I have set up MSMTP with the following but if I send an e-mail from the CLI it either gets blocked, or ends up in my SPAM because it has no TO/FROM or anything up top. But e-mails from CRON are ...
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how do I send mutt postponed mail at a later time?
I don't like waking up early but people prefer to be emailed in the mornign rather than at 3AM. Therefore I often use at to send the email whilst I'm asleep.
But that comes with the complication ...
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backup emails from IMAP in readable form
I have headless debian/raspbian linux machine and I would like to backup all my emails via IMAP including all mail and subfolders once daily (connection is secured with SSL/TLS. it should run ...
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Test sending mail to root - Aliases - SSMTP - Hostname Error
So I successfully set up outbound e-mail via Comcast + SSMTP.
I can e-mail via the CLI. But my goal today is to setup root alias forwarding.
I can't seem to get it to work.
Here is my /etc/ssmtp/...
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SSMTP: Can't send email with both a body and attachment
I am currently using the following command to send emails from my Ubuntu server, which I adapted from this question's answer: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/90881/166614
printf "subject: the subject\...
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The first email bounces; the second and subsequent emails go through
550 relay not permitted
That's the error message when email sent by Exim4 from my Debian laptop bounces.
What's weird is that only the first email bounces. Second and subsequent emails pass through ...
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Sending mail using Sendmail : DSesmtp setting
Need some clarification on Mail Settings. We are managing around hundreds of applications. These applications runs on Linux based hosts and used to send mails to users based on user registration at ...
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get the toplevel folder name used by readpst -r?
I've come across the following minor problem trying to automate my use of readpst:
readpst -w /some/dir/ -r mailtst.pst
I can't predict the name of the top-level dir without some prior knowledge ...
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Postfix/Dovecot receiving email but nothing in mail box
When I send an email to myself I get the following log messages:
Aug 24 20:10:40 google-way postfix/trivial-rewrite[3251]: warning: do not list domain mwdesenvolvimento.com.br in BOTH mydestination ...
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Postfix TLS Encryption for outgoing email
This is my postfix main.cnf configuration file
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next ...
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How to set a linux box to receive emails using my email address [closed]
(I know the title will be confusing)
Please correct me. I don't know where to start with this.
I am planning to use my enterprise email address ( I am working at a company) as a medium for commands. ...
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Migration of Sendmail from RHEL 3 to RHEL 6
We have a upcoming task of Migrating our Production mail server to a new environment. Mail Server is sendmail and OS is RHEL 3.
sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4
We are planning to migrate on ...
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remove or change at command bcc setting
When I run a command with at on my Debian server, it is correctly sending the email to my user which I have forwarded to my gmail address, but it's also adding a BCC to drew@sokar (my.username@...
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How to find out which particular e-mail in Thunderbird/Icedove that contains malware Doc.Dropper.Agent-1552723 pointed out by Clamscan?
Today I ran a clamscan -ri / and got some positives for some malware. Most are in the "spam" folder, so that's no problem. But one is among my saved e-mails:
/home/user/.icedove/bfa059u1.default/...
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Thunderbird: wrap long URLs when displaying message
When I receive an email with a long URL, Icedove (Thunderbird) does not wrap the URL in the message window, but instead shows the long URL in one long line. Additionally, a horizontal scroll bar ...
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Where does crontab get the email address of the user it emails / where are user email addresses set?
I am trying to familiarize myself with crontab. I know that it is supposed to send an email containing the output of jobs to the user that scheduled them however, I can see in the syslog that the ...
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Unable to sync email using imapsync
I'm trying to sync my emails from an old server "server2" with a new one "server1"
imapsync \
--host1 imap.server1.com --user1 [email protected] --password1 fdsfdsfsfd \
--host2 imap.server2....
