Questions tagged [sendmail]
Sendmail is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA), originally created in the 1980s. It is primarily used on Unix-like operating systems to deliver and transfer mail.
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Sending Emails within a Docker Container
Hello I'm trying to run the following command in my container
mail -s "This is Subject" [email protected] < /path/to/file
How should my dockerfile look so the above command can be executed ?
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Received: (from www-data@localhost)
All mails coming from my server has Received: (from www-data@localhost) even though I've set 127.0.0.1 mydomain.org mydomain server2 in /etc/hosts. I think that's the reason why it's ending up in the ...
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Getting connection timeout when using sendmail
I’m using CentOS (basically):
$ uname -a
Linux sandbox.my-domain.com 3.4.76-65.111.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 14 21:06:49 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and trying to send email using ...
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Set the from address on emails from cron/Set default from address for sendmail
As a normal user I can send email, either from the commandline or from PHP. But when a cron job has error output, sending of that email fails (I have a [email protected] at the top of the crontab)....
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XAMPP sendmail issue
I have the following configuration setup in XAMPP:
In php.ini:
[mail function]
SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = *******@gmail.com
sendmail_path = "\"D:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail....
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Could not send email with password reset using SendGrid with Django on PythonAnywhere
Could someone point me in the right direction on how the password reset, that is built-in with Django admin, is going to send an email for the password reset. I am using the following:
PythonAnywhere ...
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Postfix pipe emails to certain email accounts only
I have configured postfix to run a script when email is received. The script gets tirggered whenever email is received on postfix. However the problem is that it is being triggered on all the email ...
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sendmail with input file not working
I cannot make sendmail work with an input file.
This works fine:
echo "Subject: sendmail test" | sendmail -v [email protected]
However, if I have file:
To: [email protected]
Subject: sendmail test two
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Linux mail server and Outlook configuration
I have a linux box where I am hosting my own internal mail serverusing sendmail. I used to send mails to a abc user in the mail server from my windows outlook using abc@mail keyword in the To field ...
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Does installing Sendmail(using apt install) allow my computer to act as an email server?
I am new to networking and have installed sendmail to allow me to send mail via mutt. I wanted to know if by doing this I have allowed my computer to act as an email server, or if the sendmail ...
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sendmail stops sending emails after sometime
I've a fresh install of CentOS 7 (followed this guide on howtoforge https://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-7-apache2-mysql-php-pureftpd-postfix-dovecot-and-ispconfig3 ) and it has sendmail. ...
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Edit sendmail /etc/aliases not working
I'm using sendmail to send the server (centos 7) root system mails in a external gmail account, but the amount of mails i get is massive, but only a few are actually needed. In this particular case i ...
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My mail server seems to be sending out spam and I am trying to find the cause
I have a mail server hosted with amazon aws.
I setup the server on Ubuntu 14.04 with postfix & dovecot.
I keep getting emails from mail delivery system saying mails are returned to sender that I ...
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Configure postfix to deliver mail to particular directory
I want to setup postfix so that any outbound mails to [email protected] are stored locally in to /apps/mails directory and each mail should have file name in YYYY-mm-dd hh.mm.ss.eml Format.
Please ...
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Configure Sendmail as Secondary/Anonymous SMTP Solution
I have a scenario where I want to allow my clients a secondary SMTP service, e.g. they are hosted on SERVER1 and using the same server as a primary mail server, Now I want to allow them to use the ...
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How to use DNS alias as sender address for sendmail
I have the following setup:
My Ubuntu (14.04) server gets a host name from DHCP (real.host.de) and there is a DNS alias (alias.host.de) that points to this host name.
Now I want to configure ...
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How do you disable AUTH in sendmail?
I'd like to entirely disable AUTH on my home server's sendmail on Fedora 21, mostly because the constant fail2ban Emails are annoying, coming from constant CRAM-MD5 brute force attempts to get my ...
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sendmail: move deferred, timed out mails to the end of the queue
In some cases, a mail isn't sent successfully and remains in front of the queue for some reasons. Say:
$ mailq
/var/spool/mqueue/q6 (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- -------...
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bad text alignment with sendmail
I'm trying to send a mail and in the text of the mail put like these:
xxxxx yyyyy zzzzz
----- ----- -----
2424 324 23432
I send the email with sendmail but it shows me:
xxxxx ...
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Use a custom sendmail binary in Thunderbird
I would like to add an option to "Outgoing Server" that uses a custom local sendmail binary (in my case for notbit) like it is possible in Evoution:
Is there such an option in Thunderbird?
(german ...
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Sendmail local domain relay
Sendmail on webserver.mydomain.com is sending all emails properly except email addressed to [email protected].
mydomain.com's mail is not handled locally and mx records are configured to point to ...
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Ubuntu sendmail relay with username and password
I have a Ubuntu server which I want to setup a mail server on. Now, I've heard that sendmail is the only mail server that supports a relay server.
Why I need a relay server is because my Ubuntu Server ...
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How to stop 'You have mail' message in linux.
I have sendmail installed. nothing else.
i just logged into my server via SSH and typed..
service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: ...
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Sendmail not working on ubuntu guest - unqualified host name
I have a win7 host running ubuntu guest through vbox. it is configured with a bridged network adapter and I am using DHCP to assign an ip of 192.168.0.5 which is mapped to smartstart.dev in my windows ...
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Send Mail not working properly on Ubuntu server 10.04
I am trying to send a test email from ubuntu server 10.04 using the sendmail service.
Below is the command.
cat /var/gs/livecron/design.txt | mail -s "Cron Job Duration Notification" sangramsanand@...
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Sendmail: Only allow specified hosts to send and from one specified domain
I am trying to configure sendmail to only allow sending from specific hosts but in addition I want to only allow mail from specific domain.. Sending from any other domain would be blocked.
I have ...
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Gmail Server not accescepting mails form sendmail
I am tring to send email using sendmail app via aws SES system. The outlook server easly accepts the email request but gmail server dosen't. can someone help me with wrong in this. Thnakyou.
here are ...
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Postfix delivers messages locally despite configuration for discovering external agent
A small node operates several web applications attached to a domain.
The same domain is used for mailboxes, hosted off site by a commercial service.
On the name server operated by the registrar, A, ...
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Change mail from header in sendmail
We have two separate RTs (request trackers) configured on one server. They both are configured to send the emails through sendmail. We are trying to configure now SPF and DMARC records for these DNS ...
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Forward outgoing mails to another port on home PC then to VPS and send it through VPS port 25
Hi I recently noticed it seemed my home ISP had banned me from sending through port 25 (I could send mails when my mail server just launched though). I tried to telnet to services like smtp.gmail.com ...
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Sendmail/roundcube delivery issues only through command line to external email
I have been playing with this issue that was discovered initially when people were unable to use the vacation feature in roundcube, it would provide a 554 5.7.1 *@gmail.com: Relay access denied
554 5....
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Is there a way to disable sendmail bounce notification?
Is there a way to disable bounces in /usr/sbin/sendmail?
What i mean by bounces, when you send an email that can't be delivered (for example the To: address is invalid) sendmail will send a bounce ...
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Unable to telnet to 127.0.0.1 (local Linux VM) to test SMTP port 25
I have the latest Kali Linux running on Hyper-V as a VM:
Sendmail is installed (testing email server)
Domain name purchased, say AlphaMoon.org with MX record pointing to my ISP IP address
Netstat ...
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Send an HTML file using Sendmail from Linux server
I tried to use this command but it doesn't work from my server. Any suggestion for this case.
(
echo "From: ${from}";
echo "To: ${to}";
echo "Subject: ${subject}";
echo &...
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Can I use sendmail instead of mailx in unattended-upgrades?
I've configured unattended-upgrades for apt to upgrade automatically and setup sendmail with a gmail account I made for it. Now I want unattended-upgrades to use sendmail to send me an email with the ...
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Mail is not working on debian server - Outgoing SMTP "Connection timed out"
I have Debian 8 VPS and websites running on PHP 5.6, using Cloudflare DNS servers.
I tried to install sendmail and postfix, but sending mails is not working, even through the CLI.
I can see syslog I ...
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ending txt contents in csv file by placing values in column format
I would like to get help on sending below txt contents in csv file by placing values in column format
DEV-C axpp4-pkrisbtm 04-25-2018-01.15 04-25-2018-01.20
UAT AXKIN-PBBCT4 04-25-2018-22.02 04-25-...
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Sending email from LAN PCs to local email server
I'll start with saying: I'm not sure what exactly I need.
I googled for "sendmail LAN" and variants, and it seems I need a "null client" setup. So that is my assumption, not my requirement (hence the ...
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sendmail dead but subsys locked
An Oracle 6.8 server cannot send mail. The service status is like this:
[root@myserver]# service sendmail status
sendmail dead but subsys locked
sm-client (pid 349376) is running...
I ...
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I am not receiving the email when I try to send using Perl (MIME::Lite)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Lite;
my $to = '[email protected]';
my $from = '[email protected]';
my $subject = "Eventful";
my $message = " Hi - Test email";
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
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Sending mail from outlook to linux machine
I am not sure if this is feasible. But, using sendmail or mutt or mail command, I am able to send mail from linux machine to a outlook server.
Whether the vice versa case is possible ? If yes how ?
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Disable Sendmail from rescue mode CentOS 6 Virtual Server
Hello we rent a virtual server of 1and1 CentOS 6 with Parallels Plesk Panel 12 (64-bit)
they have put it into rescue mode as it was "found to be part of a network of compromised machines leading a ...
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how can I view the Delivery status notification in sendmail?
I'm using a script to send newsletters via sendmail so, I want to access to Delivery status notification in case the mail failed, is there a command to list the content of DSN?
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Migrate emails to new server but prevent Outlook from re-downloading them
I have a sendmail server that is nearing end-of-life. I need to move all email accounts to a new server (postfix), but I don't want Outlook users to re-download all their existing messages after the ...
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sendmail relay refusing to use @outlook.com forward
I use my own sendmail box which has been forward email to a gmail address for a while.
Decided to switch to an outlook.com address and configured the sendmail server (via virtusertable table) to ...
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hostname -f shows reverse DNS twice
On a Debian 4.7.2-5, I got some problems sending mail correctly with sendmail. It appears that ELHO sender is different from domain name.
When I ask machine for its hostname FQDN :
hostname -f
I got ...
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Outlook: Switched from POP to IMAP. Mail doesn't send from OUTBOX when From address doesn't match default IMAP folder
I wanted to start using IMAP for all my emails, that i am currently accessing using POP. There are about 10 different email address that i previously had all going to 1 PST file.
Creating new IMAP ...
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why did sendmail generate this mail?
Today I received this strange mail generated by sendmail to one of the recipients from the aliases file.
it is the first time we get this
From [email protected] Mon Feb 2 11:35:15 2015
Received: ...
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macosx: How to unblock SMTP port?
In /var/log/mail.log I see runs of time-out errors in quick succession, like this
Dec 13 15:50:31 myserver postfix/smtp[2911]: connect to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.138.26]:25: Operation ...
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Error sending email. Address is missing domain
I am trying to install an email server on a VPS box, using the following programs:
Sendmail+Dovecot+Horde
Now, I believe all y configurations were correct. Yet, when trying to send emails from horde,...
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