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Refers to the hardware or software that make up a server dedicated to sending and receiving emails. Many popular modern email servers bundle other functionality for contacts and calendaring along email delivery.

Refers to the hardware or software that make up a server dedicated to sending and receiving emails. Many popular modern email servers bundle other functionality for contacts and calendaring along email delivery.

A list of mail servers can be found on Wikipedia, though sendmail, Microsoft Exchange Server, Postfix, and Exim are the most popular email servers, which together control over 85% of market share for SMTP service.

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Are separate dns records necessary for web and mail on a single server?

When setting up a web/mail server on a single server or VPS with one IP address almost every guide online follows the same structure for DNS: example.com. IN A 192.0.2.0 hostname.example.com. IN A 192.0.2.0 …
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Mail server for Windows 2008

I'm going to get a Windows 2008 dedicated server sometime soon. I'm going to have my website hosted on it, so, I also want to run a mail server on the same machine to receive any mail sent to the website (I use the SMTP Server in IIS for sending…
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Minimum PostFix configuration for sending emails only?

My servers are currently on sendmail which is not very efficient. I'd like to migrate to PostFix. I'm using Google Mail for Domain for handling incoming email so I need to setup PostFix to send emails only. What's the minimal PostFix configuration I…
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Set up certs for multiple domains in Postfix and Dovecot

I don't know how to set up main.conf postfix config file and 10-ssl.conf dovecot config files in order to make my mail server capable to handle with multiple certificates. Let me explain... I have two domains at the same server,…
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NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from on freebsd and postfix

I am building a server using this config -> http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 and when trying to test basic email capabilities I get -> NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from when try to send a test email. Below are my related configs How to I get…
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Benefits to having a sole email VPS server

I have around 5 websites hosted in a VPS server, and for some reason I bought another VPS server recently just to host the emails for those 5 websites. I would like to know the pros and cons of having a separate email server isolated from its web…
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Can an email server be set-up on an Azure VM?

I am considering the possibility of setting up a simple SMTP+IMAP email server for internal use on an extra small Azure VM. When I say internal use I don't mean "used by internal users", but for use as part of a larger system and to serve the main…
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Hosting multiple domains on a single email server with one IP

I have an email server (mail) that currently hosts one domain example1.com. The server is behind NAT and I have split-dns configured on the LAN. The time has come to host additional domains on the same email server and after many hours of googling I…
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how to find out where email is being hosted for a website

Is there a whois equivalent to find out the hosting details for email?
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How can you test a backup / secondary MX server?

I'm wanting to set up a secondary MX server using Postfix but I am wondering what is the best way to test this prior to putting into production (by adding its MX entry)? One possible way is to test it with an entirely different domain name, ie buy a…
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Should I listen for SMTP on both 25 and 587?

I was setting up haraka as our mailing server, and for outbound email, it suggests moving to port 587 for SMTPS auth support. However, I'm unsure if I should be running 2 instances of haraka on both ports, just listen on one (587), or listen on…
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How do I set up postfix to store e-mail in a file instead of relaying it?

I want to run a staging copy of a production server on a local environment. The system runs a PHP application, which sends e-mail to customers in various scenarios and I want to make sure no e-mail is ever sent from the staging environment. I can…
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Linux- Is an MTA required?

My VPS image (Debian 6) comes pre-installed with sendmail as the MTA. I will use this server as a web server, and maybe other usages but not as a mail server. I want to remove as many unneeded services as possible to save resources. Can the MTA be…
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Looking for an open source email archiving application

I'm looking for an open source application that will archive my email. It might do this by logging in to my POP3 account on a regular basis and copying the emails across, or it might just read my Unix mbox/maildir file/directory directly on the mail…
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In the mail header, what does the "received from" ip refer to?

I noticed that some mail header contact a field called received : from and it contains an ip address. Does this address refer to the sender machine even if he is using a web interface or to the server ?
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