Email headers such as Received-By: are SMTP headers.
Questions tagged [smtp-headers]
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Number of issues with postfix, DKIM, and mail getting rejected or bulked
I'm having a number of issues with Postfix and mail sent being rejected or put in the spam/junk folder.
I am trying to send emails on behalf of a number of my customers. I've got a postfix server set up and running, DKIM configured(open-dlim) and…

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Filter emails based on missing header in Postfix
How do I reliably enforce a policy of certain header being present in all messages in Postfix?
For example, To: header.
I've read about header_checks and used them previously to filter messages based on present headers, but apparently they're not…

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How can I dump email headers to plaintext files?
I have a .pst for which I would like to extract header information for all emails and dump it to one file per email. How would I go about doing this?

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Forwarding email with postfix via AWS SES
I have a server with postfix MTA installed that accepts mail for my domain, hereinafter @example.com. I need to setup forwarding for certain emails@example.com to other emails . e.g. @gmail.com and this needs to be done using SMTP transport via…

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Can't find received_header_text in exim.config file
I would like to modify received_header_text to add additional "Received: ..." header for authenticated mails - so gmail import will check SPF against our server, not client IP.
But my exim.conf does not contain received_header_text option and I…

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Postfix: Get real forwarded-to address
Our system is set up such that *@our-server.com goes to reader@our-server.com. We automatically process email and it's easier/faster to connect to a single account that has all email rather than the hundreds we'd have otherwise.
But in some cases,…

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Postfix: how to redirect a single email address depending on the sender
I'm trying to add a rule to Postfix.
My goal is as follows: when anyone EXCEPT (server@example.com) sends an email to (info@example.com) forward it to (sales@example.com). If server@example.com is sending the mail, simply allow it to flow…

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Where does e-mail header "Received: from..." come from?
I sent myself an e-mail from my server to my gmail account, here is one of the headers (partially redacted):
Received: from cpvds3xx.xxx.com (dev1.xxx.com. [209.51.132.xxx])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id…

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Exim4: How to add or rewrite Reply-to: header in outgoing messages?
How can I configure exim header rewriting to take care of forgotten Reply-To: headers in emails leaving our company?
We want to have certain Reply-To: headers added to all official
emails leaving the company. E.g. Reply-To:…

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Postfix bad notify parameter syntax
Please bear with me as I'm not an expert admin
I have a linux mail server that has been running for a couple of years and now all of a sudden a certain user is unable to send emails. They immediately get a response from "System Administrator"…

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Conditionally Rewrite Email Headers (From & Reply-To) Exchange 2010
I have a client who maintains Company A (with email addresses %username%@companyA.com) and they own the domain companyB.com however there is no "infrastructure" (no Exchange server) set up specifically for companyB.com. My client needs to be able…

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Spam avoidance issue
I'm working on a project right now that sends email as confirmation of purchase. Some emails are still being received as spam. I have signed the domain up for google apps for business & am using the PHPMailer code base (that is used for sugarCRM,…

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postfix additional header addition
X-LBSMTP-Spam-Policy: SendBlaster SMTP is a paid relay service.We do not tolerate UCE of any kind. Please report it ASAP to abuse@lbsmtp.org.
I want to add such a header to mails sent by my postfix mail server. I have postfix 2.33 in my centos5…

sam
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Postfix delivery based on headers
I need to filter email delivery in Postfix based on a specific header.
Lets have the following example:
There's some PHP script that will dispatch emails to the local MTA (postfix). These emails contain a specific custom header (for example sake,…

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DNS bind & mail server - received by unknown
I have a web server that talks to a mail server when sending an email. Now I'm hosting my own DNS, however, since then I see that one of the email headers says:
Received: from webserver.domain.com (unknown [192.168.0.1])
where webserver.domain.com…

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