Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (also "MTA"), written in 1997 and still actively developed.
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Configuring postfix for virtual host using specific smtp (gmail)
i've configured using gmail as for my server for sending out email "globally" like the following tutorial
http://mhawthorne.net/posts/postfix-configuring-gmail-as-relay.html
But my server is hosting ...
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Postfix: which process is attempting to send to example.com?
Here is the maillog extract:
May 15 10:20:41 nucleus postfix/smtp[4754]: connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out
May 15 10:20:41 nucleus postfix/smtp[4755]: connect to ...
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Sending email through postfix using Python or Telnet
I managed to configure a local postfix server, which works correctly when using the mail command (and I receive emails from the cron deamon),
however, if I try to connect using telnet localhost 25 ...
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Postfix: unlimited per-user addresses via “+” sign
Gmail users can get virtually unlimited email addresses by using $name+$suffix@gmail.com ("plus addressing").
I'd like to have that for my own mail server, which is running Postfix. The mailbox and ...
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How do I enable DKIM for bounce messages in Postfix
I have set up a linux email server with Postfix and have correctly set up SPF and DKIM. When I send an email, the email is signed properly, and when I view the source from the receiving client (such ...
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Postfix configuration issue?
I don't know if it is the right place to answer this question (please tell me I will remove it). I have an error message when using telnet to send an email to ab account I have specified in my postfix ...
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Can I temporarily pause/queue Postfix SMTP sending to a specific domain?
I'd like to temporarily queue all mail to a particular domain, but allow all others to send right away.
For example, if a user on mydomain.com sends an email to recipient-domain.com, I'd like to wait ...
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my mail server is rejecting gmail
i try to send a message from my gmail account to one of the addresses hosted by my mail server and get the following message:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
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Example of fail2ban configuration to ban servers spamming my postfix server?
I have a small mail server at home and quite a restrictive filtering rules. I use logwatch and could see that 80 to 90% connections are rejected by my restrictive filtering rules. Most rejection ...
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postfix send mail through another smtp server? [closed]
im running debian squeeze virtualmin/webmin vps with postfix in australia
my main email account is through a company in america
i want to be able to send email to my aus vps smtp server, and then ...
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Disable incoming emails for a specific virtual user
I've just setup a mail server with mysql virtual users.
I want to use an account for sending notifications/registrations emails from my website
I found no options for disabling incoming emails, so my ...
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dovecot with virtual_mailbox_domains and multiple mailbox
I'm configuring a new postfix(2.9.6)/ldap/dovecot(2.0.19) installation (as an upgrade for the old postfix/ldap/cyrus) with virtual_mailbox_domains where some users have accounts in multiple domains.
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Sending postfix emails from different VPS hosted domains
How do I setup postfix to send emails from a different domain, I hosted on a VPS ?
Now, I have like this: domain.com, domain.info and domain.org, hosted on a Debian VPS. I made the email server with: ...
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How to disable postfix/mail/mailqueue on my server?
I'm running a debian squeeze server. I've been having problems with certain websites sending spam, so I've disabled postfix completely (/etc/init.d/postfix stop).
However, the sites trying to send ...
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Rotate Outgoing Ip in Postfix, script not working
I've found what it seems to be a nice piece of code meant to rotate postfix IP but I really can't get it to work. when I run it I get this error:
rotate_postfix_ip.sh: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
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How to configure Postfix mail on Red Hat Linux?
I am trying to configure Postfix on Red Hat Linux to send email with the following command:
mail -s "test" user15@dba.gui.com
I have followed all the steps mentioned in this tutorial and have ...
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What is the best option for a Debian mail server? [closed]
I've recently set up postfix and dovecot for a mail server on my VPS. They don't work properly yet and seem a bit too high-level for someone with my expertise (or lack thereof). Is there a better - ...
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Strip text off received messages in postfix
On one of my systems I run a secondary mail server which gets all mail from a primary server. However the primary server has an annoying tendency of attaching text to the end of the mails when ...
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Need secure solution to get the size of a directory with PHP
I have a vmail directory manage by postfix with the permissions set like this:
user: vmail
group: vmail
permission 700
I need to get the size of that directory with PHP. To do this, I'm using ...
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My postfix email server can send email using forge domain name via outlook
I setup a Postfix mail server in our office and we are using MS-outlook for mail-client.
I can finally send and receive email via outlook.. but my problem now is that i can send
email using ...
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Postfix: How to reject emails to anyone not listed in the virtual alias list?
I've set up a Postfix SMTP server on my Debian server and configured it to forward emails to my main email address using the virtual_alias_maps option.
Sending and receiving emails works fine and ...
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How can I get administrative email delivered to a Gmail account?
For years and years, I've been running my own email server on my home network. Thanks to getting a Nexus 4, I've finally switched everything over to Google, and decommissioned my email server. Now I'm ...
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Postfix SSL + Dovecot IMAPS (SSL) + RoundCube
A couple of weeks ago, I configured my webserver to be able to send emails (e.g. registration emails for my website etc.) I used exim4 in Debian, which worked flawlessly.
Now, the need has arisen to ...
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Domain email, GMail, Postfix
So, after a long trek around the blog-o-tubes, I arrive here.
I'm trying to set up email for my domain. I don't really want to do my own email hosting with my own mailserver, especially since my ...
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Mailserver can send email but can't receive email from Gmail [closed]
I have problem with my mail server domain, actually only from Google since last week.
Today I tried to send mail from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail to my domain. All were received apart from Gmail. I ...
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ispconfig3 mailserver
I have been installing ispconfig3 on ubuntu 12.04 what usually configures the mail server as well postfix/dovecot. Creating mailboxes and testing theme no email is going to be droped. My syslog has ...
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How to disable Postfix/Dovecot logging on Ubuntu?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and I am trying to disable logging for both Postfix and Dovecot. Does anyone know how to do this? I have found references stating that there is a setting in /etc/syslog.conf ...
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Troubleshooting my home mail server setup
I've got some small domain names that I host on my home server and would like to get some basic email addresses for those domains. I set up an Ubuntu 12.04 server and followed the instructions here ...
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postfix with dovecot and mysql issue
I have been trying to install on ubuntu 12.04(Server) an email server following this tutorial . After all I can send out but I'm having problems to receive mails on my virtual mailboxes created with ...
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Ubuntu: trouble setting up Mail Server
I was follwing the Guid @Â http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-ubuntu-12.10. But I ran into some issues.
the first issue was: (mail.log)
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Remove root@localhost from e-mail's headers
I am trying to install an e-mail server in my CentOS server. I have installed and configured postfix and bind, but when I send e-mails I still get "root@localhost" and 127.0.0.1 in my e-mail's ...
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Ubuntu Postfix Error: timeout exceeded (in reply to end of DATA command)
I have Ubuntu box behind the router (Asus RT-N13U), port 25 is forwarded to box from router via VirtualServer feature on router.
The problem is that some clients (here host.ru) can't deliver mail to ...
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Postfix reporting fatal smtp errors
I have three email addresses that all resolve to the same GMail account (@gmail.com) through postfix on an Ubuntu VM. Two of these are working fine, but since my last system upgrade the third has ...
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How to disable Postfix SPF from rejecting mail?
I am having an issue with Postfix and SPF that I can't seem to figure out. I have installed SPF for Postfix using the guide on this link (postfix-policyd-spf-perl).
However, I don't want Postfix or ...
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stop emails originating from apache / php
I am running Ubuntu with Webmin / VirtualMin
And I started getting this issue with thousands of emails coming from www-data which is Apache.. somehow from a virtual site.
How can I disable this ...
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Postfix/Dovecot on Debian - Cannot connect account to Outlook
I recently installed/configured Postfix and Dovecot on my Debian Squeeze server. I can send mail using telnet so I know everything is working alright, but I cannot connect the account to Outlook. Is ...
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postfix + dovecot configuration on receiving mail
I am trying to configure postfix+dovecot with SASL authentication on a debian squeeze server. I can send mail from the roundcube application but I cannot receive mail at all.
tail /var/log/mail.err ...
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MySQL will no longer run after installation of Postfix/Dovecot/etc. with Palegray's Automate
I recently downloaded and installed this software on my VPS:
http://www.palegray.net/projects/automate/pdm/debian-6
It's a package for easy installation of postfix, dovecot, and MySQL mail server. ...
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CentOS 6 - Inodes full - can't delete folder containing files
I have a CentOS 6 server at rackspace with 40GB of space. My server kept crashing with 'no space left on device' errors but there is over 50% free.
When I run df-i this is the output:
/dev/xvda1 ...
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Sent mail getting blocked by spam filters
I have just setup a VPS with CentOS and Webmin. I am attempting to setup my email server. I can successfully send mail, however it always gets blocked by spam filters. What steps are needed to make ...
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Postfix TLS configuration
I am in the middle of setting up a postfix server on Arch Linux. It seems to be working ok so far - I can successfully speak to it via telnet localhost 25. However, when I try to connect using ...
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postfix mail queue - get bottleneck - Debian squeeze
I have a problem with Postfix 2.7.1, Debian Squeeze:
send and receive mail with no problem working locally,
send e-mail outside work without a problem,
the problem is when someone sends a large ...
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Connection refused from remote computers on port 25 with postfix
I have a postfix / dovecot mail server setup using TLS.
The IMAP / POP side of the server works perfectly, but I cannot connect to it for SMTP.
Even telnetting it from a remote computer I get ...
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postfix sends mail from wrong domain / Python 3 code for sending utf8 mail
I have a machine with two domain names, say a.com and b.com.
When I use postfix to send something from an address like foo@a.com, it replaces it with foo@b.com every time. My main.cf file specifies ...
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use postfix with ssl certificate that has a password
i have gone through a couple of tutorials on how to set up postfix on ubuntu with support for my ssl certificate:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
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How to make Postfix not retry delivery of failed emails? [closed]
I don't want postfix to retry failed emails. How can I configure it not to do so?
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“Recipient address rejected” when sending an email with sendgrid
In postfix, I'm using relay_host to send an email to an external address using sendgrid, but I get an error about local ricipient table when sending an email from my PHP code.
This is my main.cf in ...
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PHP mail() function not working in Mac OS X
I know this question has been asked many times and people use to give many solutions.
I have followed almost all the possibilities which I come across after investigating on it. but nothing worked ...
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Cannot check email with email client, but telnet to 110 works
I installed postfix and dovecot on Ubuntu 10.04 using pdm-ubuntu-10-04-x86-v1.4.3.
It set up a MySQL database for my domain and user data.
I used it's ./manage to create a user. When I created an ...
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Forward any mail sent to any of my domains on my server to my single gmail email
I've got an ubuntu server and a bunch of domains on it e.g.:
domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com
And I want to be able to forward any emails sent to any of those domains to my single gmail email.
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