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The server configuration of email, including POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and popular server software packages that control email.

The server configuration of email, including POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and popular server software packages that control email.

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How to redirect all postfix emails to one external email address?

To create a test email server, I have a similar requirement as: How to redirect all outgoing email from postfix to a single address for testing But I need to send all the emails to an external account, not a local one. I would like to do something…
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SPF vs. DKIM - The exact use cases and differences

I'm sorry for the vague title. I don't fully understand why SPF and DKIM should be used together. First: SPF can pass where it should fail if the sender or DNS is "spoofed" and it can fail where it should pass if some advanced setup of proxies and…
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How do I enter a strong (long) DKIM key into DNS?

I'm trying to enter a 4028 bit DKIM key into DNS and it seems that I'm exceeding both the UDP 512 byte limit and also the maximum record size for a TXT record. How does someone properly create a large key (with implied larger encoded size) and…
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Fixing My MTA's Poor Reputation

I have a web site that needs to send email to customers to deliver files that they have purchased. Reliable email delivery is vital to this business. Unfortunately, most of the emails sent by my server are not delivered due to my MTA's "poor…
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How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain?

Outlook and a number of other email clients now feature autodiscovery of mail server settings and it bugs me that I don't have this set up for our domains, but I'm not sure how to do it and a quick google hasn't turned up anything. I presume it's…
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Should I run my own MTA?

I need to send a large volume of emails, roughly 60.000 per week. At the moment we outsource this service to a third party, and we expect to double our volume within the next 6 months. Since the service is starting to be too expensive, I was…
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t-online.de blacklist "host refused to talk to me" (BL)

I got following error message for several days, as my server tried to send a message to an emailadress at t-online.de: host mx02.t-online.de[194.25.134.9] refused to talk to me: 554 IP=xx.xx.xx.xx - A problem occurred. (Ask your postmaster for help…
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Are two periods allowed in the local-part of an email address?

A third-party email gateway relay is refusing to process a message for an email address we're sending to. The address is in the format of firstname..lastname@recipientdomain.com (note the two periods). Is this allowed by RFC guidelines? RFC 2822…
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How to send email with my CentOS server?

I just built a modest home server using CentOS 5.5. I want the server to be able to send emails to my Gmail account or other email accounts for various things like cron jobs. Also it would be nice to be able to send email via PHP applications that I…
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Does DKIM alone not solve the spam issue? Why do I need SPF?

FINAL EDIT : I was completely wrong about DKIM it seems, the signing domain does not have to be the same as the sender domain, thus the whole premise for my question is flawed. A lot of thanks to Paul for pointing out my mistake! Original Question…
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Is there a standard DNS record to indicate the IMAP server for a domain?

After some searching I've come up totally empty handed on if there is any standard (or non-standard for that matter) specification or best practice for specifying the IMAP server for a domain name. I.e. if I have an account such as…
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Linux clients for Exchange (email and) calendar

At $work, the official email solution is Outlook on Windows, connected to an Exchange server. That's problematic for people with Linux on their desktop machine. The Exchange server supports IMAP, and e-mail works fairly well using the usual…
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Postfix aliases and duplicate e-mails, how to fix?

I have aliases set up in postfix, such as the following: all@mydomain.com: foo@mydomain.com, bar@mydomain.com ... When an email is sent to all@mydomain.com, and any of the recipients in that alias is cc:ed which is quite common (ie: "Reply…
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Can I create my own S/MIME certificate for email encryption?

I'm having a bit of an issue here. Bear with me as this may be a case of "not asking the right question". Background: Using Apple Mail. Want to encrypt/decrypt email but GPGMail (and apparently PGP) isn't supported with Snow Leopard. Basically I…
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DNS: Is it valid to have an "MX" record and no "A" record?

Say you own a abcd.com and you only want to use it to send and receive email via bob@abcd.com. You don't want to provide any kind of website. Can you set up the DNS records to include an "MX" record and no "A" record? Is this enough for sending and…
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