A mail-server (or mail transfer-agent) is a program which accepts emails and forwards them to other mail-servers using a client-server architecture normally the SMTP protocol is used for this.
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Sending mail to local mail server - "SENT: 550 The address is not valid."
I am trying to send mail to my local mail server. I am using hMailServer as mail server and I have configured it as mentioned here:
Setting up local Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) Server on XAMPP
But when I try to send mail I am getting this error:
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Email server with in/out monitor and backup functionalities?
How could a company trace of all incoming and outcoming message linked to its corporate emails ?
This would be convenient to audit some inboxes in case of an conflict where email exchanges are involved.
Today we use OVH emails and we cannot log…
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workaround for the 990 character limitation for email mailservers
Wanted to know if there are any functions/classes/etc.. to help with the 990 character limitation for email as my HTML is being effected due to this.
The Problem: (Source)
Note that mailservers have a
990-character limit on each line
contained…
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Script to move messages from one IMAP server to another
Our office uses 2 IMAP servers for e-mail, one is the incoming server and holds the recent e-mails and the other is an archive server. We mainly use Outlook 2010 and our current process is to periodically drag sent messages from the incoming server…
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Email solution on GCP
I've had a Hostgator reseller account for over 15 years that I want to leave. I'm migrating 10 of my websites over to the Google Cloud Platform. In the past with Hostgator, setting up email accounts with POP3 and SMTP was easy. Now that I'm a noob…
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Configure Mail Server to receive mail from any domain
I have a postfix mail server on ubuntu on my virtualbox,now the domain of the mail server is abc.com...hence it receives mail from any "from address" but the "to address" needs to be proper i.e a valid user in the mailserver.
Now,in my project i am…
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How to build local node.js mail server
I have spent couple of days implementing my own mail server using node.js. I used modules like "smtp-server" for creating smtp server and also "smtp-connection" to connect and send mail to it. But I'm getting confused because I don't know how to…
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How to verify Mandrill custom sending domain without a mail receiving client?
The Background
I am using Mandrill as my SMTP sending mail server. After setting up MX in my custom domain DNS, I am able to send emails through Mandrill.
However, when reading the email from Gmail client, there's always an "on behalf of" line…
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How do I read incoming mail using C#
I am looking for a solution to allow me to read incoming emails. The three methods I can think of to do this at the moment are:
Create an Email Server parsing emails
Hook into an existing exchange server
Hook into outlook that is already set up…
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Linux: How to make a daemon/service usable with xinetd?
Anybody knows what changes are necessary for a server to work with xinetd ?
The server being a .NET mailserver that runs on Linux.
See the bottom of this post for reference:
Lumisoft Mailserver Forum Post
Note: xinetd, not mono-service. [x]inetd is…
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Is it possible to use an Amazon EC2 instance as an email server?
I want to be able to run an EC2 instance (CentOS LAMP based) as a mail server and create email addresses for users when they sign up so that they can upload files via email. The emails would be parsed and attached files processed and added to S3 for…
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Linux postfix/dovecot 554 Relay access denied
I have this error 554 Relay access denied when trying to send email from my outlook client.
I can read incoming mails but cannot send.
If i connect with telnet localhost 25 i can send external emails, but with outlook client it doesn't work.
Here's…
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On Linux, how do I fake an MX record for a domain?
I'm testing two mail servers that live on two (virtual) machines with made up domain names for emails. When one of the servers needs to send an email to the other one, it seemingly performs a DNS lookup for the recipient domain's MX record, which…
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How to start dovecot?
I'm building a web server to host multiple websites. I got everything working except the mail server. I'm using linode to host my vps and I've been following their tutorials. FYI, I'm using Ubuntu 11.10.
Here is the link I've been following,…
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Trying to set up local docker-mailserver with docker-compose and nodemailer
I am trying to set up a docker-mailserver instance to use the nodemailer module to send emails from in my local dev setup. Here's what my docker-compose.yml file looks like:
version: '3.1'
services:
postgres:
container_name: postgres
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