Questions tagged [email]

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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mail command no longer reads from /var/spool/mail/root

Until half an hour ago mail command worked as expected. Now it says no mail for root. But I can still see and read my mail in /var/spool/mail/root. I don't believe I've changed any settings. I'm using postfix 2.10 if that is relevant. Update…
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Postfix DSN code explanation

Since few days ago I was unable to receive automatic emals sent from my PHP application. When I use Terminal to send an email to my @gmail address, everything works. When I try to send it to my corporate mail box, nothing happens. I looked over…
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How do I find the mailbox name for an exchange 2010 account so I can connect using mapi

I was redirected here from Stack Overflow, so my apologies if this happens to be off topic. I have an issue at the moment where I am trying to set up a connection between my exchange account and a program I am using with mapi, and I cannot find the…
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forward an exact copy of all mail to second archive mail server

I am setting up an mail server with postfix at the moment, and I am almost done with it. But I need to archive all incoming mails. My first setup was to set the sender_bcc_maps parameter and the recipient_bcc_maps parameter to an external email…
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Setting up wildcard mail accounts for forwarding on Debian 7

Using Debian 7 I need to setup a mail server configuration for testing purposes. This setup is not intended to "go into production" mode but we need something like this during our development process for a mobile app. The app requires a user to…
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MX vs SRV records

At first sight, it seems that MX and SRV records serve the same purpose. They both: Point a client to the name of the host the server is on Support prioritizing/fallback I'm aware that MX predates SRV (RFC974 vs RFC2782), but in a modern context,…
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using seperate mail server to send website emails, cannot send email to mailboxes on the same domain

I've configured a new WordPress website to send emails from no-reply@domain.com for things like user registrations, password resets and newsletters. The email info@domain.com is the only other mailbox for this domain which is what the site's owner…
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Phantom Out of Office

I have a user who has an out of office message that comes on every day before 8am. The user sets the out of office via Outlook web access from their device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc - whatever they have at the moment). The user has never used a…
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Exchange / Outlook Managing multiple smtp addresses

In our company some of our employee's have multiple email addresses on multiple domains. Now we have tried multiple setup to manage this situation, only to find that there is no ideal one. We are using Exchange 2013 with Outlook 2013 clients. One of…
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Zabbix Not Triggering Events and Not Sending Notification Emails

I am new to Zabbix administration. Running it to monitor server resources on a linux machine. Setting up Email notifications against trigger's expression if System RAM goes below 40GB. Using Amazon SES for SMTP settings as mentioned in attached…
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Why does postfix on AWS give me "Invalid MAIL FROM address provided"? I have production access

I'm running the postfix mail server on my AWS box. My domain is mydomain.com. I have set up virtual mapping such that emails sent myuser@mydomain.com should be forwarded to target-user@gmail.com.com. I have used Amazon SES to verify certain email…
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Why can't I send/receive emails from AWS Ubuntu using Postfix?

I'm trying to send/receive emails on my AWS Ubuntu box. To do so, I'm following the instructions posted by Amazon here. (I skipped the section entitled "To configure integration using a secure tunnel") However, I'm still unable to send any emails.…
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Monitoring services for email servers

Does anyone have experience of hosted services for monitoring the status of email servers? I host my own email on a Linux VPS. If either my SMTP or IMAP servers stop responding to requests, I want to receive an SMS within 10 minutes telling me…
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Mail not delivered from custom email server (MS Exchange)

I have my own Exchange Server 2013 (SP1). I am able to receive emails ok but sending emails is not reliable. Emails sent to gmail or seznam.cz (email provider in Czech Republic) is ok. The problem is sending emails to outlook.com. I guess it is…
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Automatically defer certain messages in Postfix

Recently we've had a spate of "spear-phishing" attacks that many of our users have fallen for, and as a result our automated scripts are running at full steam locking accounts that have been compromised and are sending out spam. This morning I spent…
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