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Why can't rsync be used in place of IMAP/POP?

Disclaimer: this relates to those who like to manage their email as files, using the likes of mutt or some other maildir reader. Before I became familiar with the likes of rsync and scp, IMAP and POP ...
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Why is Postfix using a lookup table?

I am trying to send mail locally using Postfix. What I can't understand, is why a lookup table is being used. I am attempting a minimal Postfix build from source, so have omitted berkley DB support. ...
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Method for Browsing 1000s of .eml Files in Thunderbird?

I recently exported my entire e-mail collection. My e-mail service only exports to .eml format. I now have a folder containing thousands of .eml files. I would like to be able to browse these e-mails ...
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Kerio Connect Attachments missing after moving mails

I got kerio connect as mail server. The host is running on Linux. I moved mails from a public folder to a local user. Now all my attachments are missing. Is there a way to recover them? What I tried: ...
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Thunderbird Rendering UTF-8 Emails Incorrectly

I imported all of my Outlook emails into Thunderbird. Since then, I've noticed that many of the emails render incorrectly - for example - reason appears as reason�. Inspecting the source, these issues ...
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In Outlook, is there a way to open a previous session with items if the option to "ask me to reopen last items" does not appear when starting Outlook?

This option is already selected in the options yet Outlook did not save the last open items. Is there a way to get the previous session for Outlook?
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How to restore a previous session of Outlook after a crash? I had always been able to reopen items but Outlook just said it didn't save before closing

So, I was always able to reopen previously emails from Outlook, which I did use a lot since Outlook liked crashing. However, one day Outlook just said through a notification it did not save the ...
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Is there an email address equivalent of “/dev/null?”

I'm searching for an equivalent of a sinkhole email address. Essentially, I need a discard mechanism similar to /dev/null or the non-routed range 240.0.0.0/4. Options like null@, devnull@, or none@ ...
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Postfix: check sender IP but don't reject

I need to do the following with Postfix: when receiving mail from remote server, check sender IP with various blacklisting services (e.g. spamhaus or abuseipdb), but avoid rejecting mail automatically,...
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How do I delete some gmail suggested email addresses during composition [migrated]

How do I delete some Gmail suggested email addresses during composition. In the composition window of Gmail web UI, I click TO: and see 6 emails for [email protected] -- 5 are not valid anymore and ...
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Out of Office was setup on an email which is now an alias; anyway to remove that out of office? [migrated]

We have a user who a few months ago went through a process of condensing the multiple email addresses they had (All of which had their own associated mailboxes) into one email address. The past email ...
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Connect Asterisk to Exchange shared mailbox via IMAP

We have been tasked with connecting Asterisk VM to our exchange environment so that Asterisk can drop a .wav file of the received v/m into a shared mailbox. We have been given the settings needed by ...
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What specifically is being searched in Thunderbird Quick Search?

Thunderbird offers a "quick search" bar across the top of the screen, and when used, the results appear as below. What, explicitly, is being searched in this quick search? Body of message? ...
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Cursor keeps jumping to the top of the email in Outlook 365 online on mobile devices [migrated]

In Outlook 365 through web browsers, if I pause typing an email for a moment, the cursor will jump to the top of the email in front of the salutation. This has been happening for years every time. Not ...
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How to capture incoming emails on exchange before they reach transport agents? [migrated]

I'm trying to debug why some inbound emails are failing DKIM checks. I'm running the latest version of Microsoft Exchange server 2019 on Widows Server 2022. I have enabled pipeline tracing via the ...
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View and print unthreaded email message bodies consecutively without email trailers?

I am using Windows 10. In Outlook desktop app, Thunderbird, or Gmail web app, is there a way to view and print a continuous stream of email messages, including body but excluding the historical email ...
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Email headers to force Gmail conversation grouping [migrated]

I have some software I wrote that sends automated notifications to a specific email address. I'd like GMail to group notifications with the same subject line together into a single conversation, but ...
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Thunderbird losing window focus during email composition

I've been using Thunderbird as my email client for a couple of years. Recently (in the last month or so), when I compose a new message, I have an issue. I start typing my message as normal. Then, at ...
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MS Exchange seems altering inbound email headers - which is then failing DKIM checks

I've recently been trying to implement DMARC for inbound email on our MS exchange server. We are currently using SpamAssassin in a Box to achieve this. Any SPF lookups seem to be working fine now, but ...
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How to configure a postfix mail server for multiple domains with SPF, DKIM & DMARC?

I have a postfix mail server that is properly configured to receive and send mails for A.com. SPF and DKIM are configured. I still have to configure DMARC. The reverse DNS is set for A.com. I would ...
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Displaying Outlook Formatted Emails on other email clients

Our company sends emails out to clients from Outlook, which have inline images, tables, and other formatting. They display perfectly on Microsoft email clients, but when displaying in other clients ...
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Why can't NTFY authenticate with MS Outlook?

First and foremost, Microsoft documentation advises these details for SMTP with outlook. I use this fine with other services. SMTP server name: smtp-mail.outlook.com SMTP port: 587 SMTP encryption: ...
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Sending email from one domain through the mailbox on a partner domain

We have a domain hosting contract with IONOS (previously 1&1). A little background on the problem at hand. There are two domains, let's call them main.domain and alias.domain because the true ...
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Moving emails in Thunderbird lost them on my server

A couple of years ago I migrated servers to a different provider and the settings changed so that sent emails got copied to different IMAP folders when sending from different devices. Recently I tried ...
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How can I make Gmail in Edge my default email app in Windows 11

I have this working perfectly with Chrome and Windows 10. But there doesn't seem to be any setting in Edge. All instructions online I've tried such as https://cynmackley.com/2023/01/10/make-gmail-the-...
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How to find which senders use the most space in my Gmail account?

How could I sort email senders (distinct "from" addresses) by the total amount of space each sender's cumulative messages (including bodies and attachments) are occupying in my Gmail account?...
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Emails getting a “Relay Error 550 5.7.367” on Office365

I am working on an odd issue that is occurring over the past few days with receiving undeliverable email errors. The error is 550 5.7.367 ("<email> is not authorized to relay messages ...
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Is it acceptable to use the masked GitHub email address when generating the SSH key for GitHub? [closed]

GitHub provides the masked address I can use in form of [email protected]. According to the website below I should start generating the key with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "...
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New user does not have a Postfix `Maildir` directory?

I am attempting to have multiple user accounts, each capable of receiving their own mail in their own Maildir directory. When I add a new user account however, no Maildir directory structure is ...
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How to correctly use Postfix virtual aliases?

All emails sent to my email server arrive in the inbox of root, regardless of the user specified in [email protected]. My virtual file in /etc/postfix/virtual is: [email protected] username1 query1@...
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I generated a new GPG key using GnuPG and associated multiple email addresses with it. Is it possible to remove some of these email addresses now?

I'd like to clarify that the GPG key has not been uploaded to any server yet; it only exists on my local machine. In this scenario, can I proceed with using deluid to remove certain email addresses? ...
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Multiple Domains, Single IP Blocked by Gmail

I have two domain names and 1 email server. When I send an email from my server to my gmail account, and then view the original message, emails from both domains are stated to: Pass SPF Pass DKIM ...
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Is it possible to have mulitple inboxes in Thunderbird as in GMail?

I would like to have a feature similar to what I currently use in GMail: one inbox with all unread email; one inbox with all starred email; one inbox with everything else. Note that all these ...
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Stop occasional Thunderbird sound notifications for junk emails

Sometimes, but not always, a new email notification sound plays when junk mail is received. So far it is only for a Hotmail account. It is possible that some junk emails first go to the inbox and are ...
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How to prioritise one domain name over others in rDNS?

I have a single remote server and multiple domain names. This server hosts webpages under certain domain names - say domain1.com - and hosts a webpage with an associated mail server under a separate ...
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Looking for an example of a domain that is blocklisted in SORBS? [closed]

Could someone show me an example of a domain that is blocklisted in SORBS (Spam and Open Relay Blocking System)? There are two zones, nomail and baddns, which contain domain names, but I can’t find ...
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Threaded/Unthreaded option in Thunderbird not working as expected

Thunderbird has had the concept of threads for the longest time, but I have always turned them off, and the feature has not bothered me until recently. Whenever several messages+replies show up ...
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How to make S/MIME certificates available to mail recipients

I would like to use S/MIME encryption with our emails. I think that I understand how things are working and I am able to send encrypted mails between people when they have all the necessary ...
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Why Outlook cannot redirect some emails via rule but ok via forwarding?

I bumped into this weird situation - one outlook and one hotmail accounts, want to redirect incoming emails for hotmail account to outlook account, so I have tried these two options individually: ...
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What's the best way to draft emails in Gmail that use variables from Sheets? [closed]

I'm want to draft emails in Gmail that incorporate variables from Sheets. Is there a free tool that does this, or am I better off writing a script? Crucially, I need to look over the draft emails ...
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Microsoft Outlook - collaborating with colleagues - being informed of task completion

I hope someone can help. I work as part of a team where more process driven requests are sent to a centralised admin team. In my role, if I receive such a request from a member of staff, I will ...
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NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[x.x.x.x] in Postfix

I cannot either receive or send e-mails from my Postfix server. by seeing the mail.log file, I see errors like this: Dec 15 22:11:49 zeus postfix/smtpd[17078]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[163....
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Automatically respond to spécific subjects with mutt

I need to automate some tasks. Is there a way to receive a mail using mutt and respond to it if the subject match a desired list? Example: If I receive a mail subject beginning with hello or hi or ...
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Disconnecting a mail washer and emails bouncing

A few days ago suddenly all incoming emails for several domains on my Centos 7.x server were being bounced and still are; outgoing email was and is still working. We suspect a cPanel update might be ...
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MS Exchange breaking inbound email DKIM by altering/adding headers

I've recently been trying to implement DMARC for inbound email on our MS exchange server. We are currently using SpamAssassin in a Box to achieve this. Any SPF lookups seem to be working fine now, but ...
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How to move some mails from Outlook.com to free up some space while keeping the complete conversation view in Outlook of Office?

Due to the recent policy changes to the Outlook.com, i.e. 5GB limit on attachment, my email account is running out of space online, and I’m thinking to move some mails offline to free up some space. ...
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How to read All Mail on IMAP Gmail with the Alpine / Pine e-mail client?

How is the "Incoming-Folders Collection" made to include the "all mail" IMAP folder? Currently, the ".pinerc" has the inbox as: # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={...
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What is X-Google-Original-From used for?

In connection with: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/763097/101935 I am looking to understand what the use and purpose of X-Google-Original-From actually is. From what I see, I think I've managed to ...
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Exchange Online -- hyperlink to new email equivalent to mailto:

I'd like to be able to enable people to quickly send an email from their existing Outlook Exchange Online account with information filled in -- currently we're using mailto: links with recipient and ...
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How to force Thunderbird to automatically use the email address of received emails in my responding emails

I use numerous email addresses. When I receive emails to any of these I expect my email client, here TB, to understand that should I respond to an email it should automatically use the email address ...
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