Questions tagged [email]

Email clients and mail transfer agents. Questions about webmail are off-topic.

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Dovecot permission denied error in logs

I am getting the following errors in the logs even though there is no "apply" user in the /etc/dovecot/users file. I'm not sure what to do next to diagnose. Can anyone advise please? It says 'refer ...
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How do I integrate GPG with alpine?

I have tried a couple of howtos, but they seem to either be too out of date or just plain don't work (don't work for me, at least). How do I sign and encrypt messages, as well as check integrity of ...
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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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Removing hyperlink underlines in Outlook 2010 signature only (not in the rest of the email)

I am having a strange problem with Outlook 2010, which unfortunately is necessary here. In a nutshell, Outlook is adding the blue hyperlink underlining on to my HTML signature, even though ...
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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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Are you trying to add, update, or remove your email account?

For some time now, when I reboot my computer I get this message. Either if I click on Yes or No the popup closes and nothing happens. How can I fix this?
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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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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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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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Emails to a specific address are bounced

I have been having issues with my emails to a particular client being bounced. I sent two emails today - the same email to two mail addresses in the clients .com domain. The first was sent to fred@...
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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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Accepted meetings do not show up on my outlook calender

I have been observing a weird behavior from my MS-Outlook on mac. What I am seeing is that the meeting invitations that I get and accept, do not show up on my Mac Outlook calendar. Now the fact that ...
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Mail client sender icons

Why do email clients (for example, Windows Mail) display icons (sender pictures) from several companies? As you can see, Microsoft, Tubmlr, Paypal provide pictures, as well as Go Daddy, Amazon, ...
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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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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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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 improve the HTML formatting in Evolution mail client

I have a question about viewing HTML emails in the Evolution mail client. Basically, I am receiving some emails that look lovely in Thunderbird but not in Evolution because the HTML rendering of ...
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How to search sent emails as well as inbox in Outlook for Office 365

In Outlook (Office 365), if I use the search box to search for emails using an email address, it will only search emails received. It will not search the Sent Items folder, even if I select All ...
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'Other's User Folder...' is grayed out

I'm using business e-mail and I'm trying to access File->Open->Other's User Folder... but the option is grayed out. I need that option in order to join the shared mailbox. Additional information: I'...
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Thunderbird: How to empty the from field by default when writing mail?

I use some different accounts in Thunderbird and switch a lot between them. Sometimes I find myself reading mail from one account and suddenly thinking of sending an email not related to what I am ...
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Exchange email sent from a shared mailbox stuck on Outbox folder with error

Background: Users in our organization using an email account as a shared mailbox that can be accessed by many users on Outlook 2010 are experiencing an issue on the first usage where they cannot send ...
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Disable Outlook "Metered Connection" warning

I connect to the internet using 4G. I have set the connection to "metered" in Windows 10. Unfortunately this means Outlook displays a "metered network" warning and will not download mail until I ...
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How to sort Thunderbird by message count?

I am trying to sort the messages in my inbox by the number of messages from / to email address. After having sorted by Sort by -> From and Grouped By Sort and then displaying the Total column, I ...
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How to check if a person belongs to the receiving list of an email in Outlook?

Occasionally I need to check if some person receives a specific email or not, or why that email was sent to some people (to remove them from that mail group), but there are a lot of mailing lists in ...
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Can't telnet into mail server

I have a machine running CentOS. From that machine I can't telnet into a mail server. From my local machine I can do the following command: telnet mailserver.com 25 From there I can't send emails ...
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Give a Shared Mailbox permissions to send to a Distro List 365

I think the answer is no but, hopefully someone has either better knowledge or superior google-fu. We're trying to allow a shared mailbox in 365 to send to a distribution list. The list itself is ...
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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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What's preventing my Google Workspace email transfer to Gmail from authenticating?

I have enabled POP email on the source account. However, after clicking "Import mail and contacts" I'm getting the following error message when trying to import emails to my free Gmail ...
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How to fix archiving folders by year?

Thunderbird stopped archiving by the year regardless the setting. It simply moves all mails to the archive root folder regardless of settings. It last archived emails from 2022 correctly. 2023's ...
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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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Why isn't my Outlook folder synced to the IMAP server?

I want to migrate all my emails from one IMAP server to another. Therefore I added both accounts to Outlook 2013, created a folder underneath the new account and copied all mails from my old account ...
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How do I stop Outlook from automatically attempting to open encrypted emails?

I receive encrypted emails often enough that this has become an issue. When I have encrypted emails in my inbox, using the arrow keys to navigate my inbox or even just opening outlook causes outlook ...
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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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Can the document receiver see the version history of an attached Word document in the email?

The Word document was in my OneDrive and I can see the version history. But when I attach it to the email (its an attachment not sending a shared link etc), then the person who receives it cannot see ...
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SMTP always fail on first attempt

I tried PowerShell to test SMTP, but the first attempt or first few attempts will always fail and receive the same error Send-MailMessage : Unable to read data from the transport connection: ...
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How to get a count of emails in outlook sorted by category and by date replied

I am looking to do two things in outlook/excel. Get a count of the number of emails in each color category. (the color corresponds to who answered the email.) Within each category/person, I want to ...
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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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Add external mailboxes to Outlook through Group Policy

I have a support team of 15 users with an internal support email account and using Outlook 2010. The same team also manages external support email accounts for various customers that require we send ...
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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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Folders created in Outlook 2013 not showing up as labels in GMail. Reverse does work

When I create a folder in Outlook 2013 under my GMail IMAP account it is not showing up as a label in Gmail. The other way around works perfectly, if I create a label in GMail about 10 seconds later ...
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Can you force windows 10 mail to use a password

I would like to know if it is possible to force the integrated windows mail to use a password, after your Hotmail account is linked. If possible can a pin be used as well. Example log in to windows ...
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Dovecot-core wont start. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

When I run sudo service dovecot start the error I get is: Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl ...
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How do I migrate my autocomplete list from Windows Mail to Thunderbird?

I am in a difficult position. I am trying to switch to using Thunderbird, but my major problem is that I don't have a real address book because I relied heavily on the address autocomplete. I don't ...
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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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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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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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Postfix requeing missed message to be processed by milter

I have a situation where we missed configuring smtpd_milters in main.cf, but lots of emails have come in and stored at /var/spool/postfix/deferred queue. Now that I have fixed the smtpd_milters in ...
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Excel VBA code and Outlook Programmatic Access warning

Since about last Friday one of my Excel macros that generates an email has been getting this warning: Microsoft Outlook A program is trying to access e-mail address information stored in Outlook. If ...

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