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Free and open source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers email. When asking about postfix problem, please include the relevant maillog lines and output of the following command: `postconf -n` (non-default content of main.cf) and `postconf -M` (content of master.cf)

Postfix is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that supports IPv6, DNSBL, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS and various database backend.

Postfix was written by Wietse Venema in 1997 and first released in December 1998 as IBM Secure Mailer.

It was designed to be highly secure and configurable, and is a drop-in replacement for , with much simpler configuration syntax.

The software was also formerly known as VMailer.

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How is this email subverting SPF checks?

I run a mail server which appears to correctly handle emails with SPF set - however I've started receiving fake emails purporting to be from a bank - with the From address set as the bank - but which definitely do not originate from the bank. The…
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How to disable RC4 on postfix?

I have make a security check of our postfix server on https://de.ssl-tools.net/mailservers and get a warning that "ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA" is still supported. But don't know how to disable that ...
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How to verify if my postfix uses really TLS to send outgoing mails?

I successfully installed Postfix on my VPS. I would like to send encrypted email. I installed all certificates and private keys and set my conf file: smtpd_tls_key_file = smtpd_tls_cert_file =
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How to disable "sender non-delivery notification" in postfix?

I want postfix to stop sending non-delivery notifications to my local account, here is example from my log 17:47:08 A727B62C6F61: message-id=<20121124174708.A727B62C6F61@mail.***********> 17:47:08 F151362C6F5F: sender non-delivery notification:…
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Postfix: what exactly are alias domains?

I thought I understood "Alias domains" as that it's simply an alias for another domain! So when I set up a mailbox like "info@main.com", and add "alias.com" as a domain alias for "main.com" the address "info@alias.com" would also work... But no! So,…
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Change Envelope From to match From header in Postfix

I am using Postfix as a gateway for my domain and need it to change or rewrite the Envelope From address to match the From header. For example, the From: header is "joe@domainA.org" and the Envelope From is "bob@domainB.com". I want Postfix to make…
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Postfix sending and receiving the same e-mail every 5 minutes for 4+ months

Back in June I sent myself the EICAR test signature to make sure my postfix/amavis/spamassassin etc setup was working properly. I didn't notice at the time, but this somehow created a tear in the space-time continuum or something whereby every 5…
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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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Is there any alternative to SpamAssassin?

I'm looking for an alternative to Spamassassin. Anyone tried rspamd ?
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How to Clear/Reset a Postfix Queue

I recently discovered that one of our Ubuntu servers was generating dozens of notification emails a minute and throttling the Office 365 relay account it was sharing with a handful of other servers. I stopped the Postfix service on this server and…
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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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Email from our server tagged as junk by Hotmail Smartscreen unable to inform Hotmail that it is legitimate

Since more than 1 month ago we are having our email from one of our servers systematically tagged as junk by Hotmail Smartscreen filter. We have taken the following actions/measures without success: Reverse DNS matching the sender IP. SPF,…
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Configure roundcube login by hostname

I recently installed Roundcube on my Centos6/postfix/dovecot server. Default install works great but I am trying to configure some options that I cannot seem to figure out. My end result would be a user…
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Proxy mail to different smtp server with Postfix

How can I forward (or proxy) mail to different smtp servers depending on the To address? I've got one machine with an SMTP (postfix) server listening on port 25. I want to use Lamson (http://lamsonproject.org/) to handle some incoming mail and some…
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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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