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Set php mail() function to use smtp authentication
So, how can I set php's mail() function to use smtp authentication?
I have a web server and then an mail server. All company's email, incoming or outgoing, passes through the mail server and I was ...
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sendemail with gmail says connection refused
I am trying to send an rmail with sendemail. installed via macports. What is wrong in the following and how do I go about fixing it?
bash-3.2$ sendemail -f username@gmail.com -u files -m message -t ...
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Sequential email send in Thunderbird like one can do in Outlook?
I tried to queue up a bunch of emails with large file attachments in Thunderbird 9 and it immediately tried to send each one when I clicked send. The large amount of simultaneous emails choked my SMTP ...
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From address different from the SMTP address sent through Outlook 2007
I have a web-only-based email address I want to use when writing from Outlook 2007 but the web-based email address doesn't allow SMTP connections.
In Outlook, I can configure an account that has my ...
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Outlook 2010 error 0x800CCC0B Cannot connect to the network
I've got a Gmail account which I connect to using Outlook 2010 using IMAP.
I have a problem where I have 3 items in the outbox, but when I click Send/Receive, Weirdly, it says Sending 5 items (where ...
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How reliable is the “from” header in an email?
When I get an email from john@example.com, how certain can I be that it is actually from him?
If the SMTP "from" header is john@example.com it is possible that it could be spoofed. Can DKIM, SPF, or ...
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Can't telnet to port 25 and yet Outlook still manages to send mail. How?
I configured Outlook to use port 25 on my ISP's smtp server. That works fine and I can send email. But if I try to use the server in one of my applications (using JavaMail), I can't connect to the ...
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How to send email from domain of my own computer
A little while ago, my computer got hacked (I think) and someone sent me an email to my gmail account. It was from the email address of one of my own domain names info@mydomainname.com and when it ...
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Auto-setup Microsoft Outlook SMTP server according to connected network
I'm using the same computer at home and at work. Each time I want to send an email, I have to change the account's SMTP server (to set ISP or local network one).
Is there a way to programmatically ...
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How can I send emails from my app “locally”? [closed]
I have an app that sends emails and I want to test it under high volumes of traffic (not because it needs to send high volumes of emails - because I'm debugging a problem that occurs rarely and is ...
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Connecting to POP/SMTP Server via Telnet
I am trying to connect to connect to an SMTP/POP server via telnet (port 25 and 110). However, I am not able to authenticate myself. Whenever I try to, it says (pop)
-ERR SPA Required, use AUTH or ...
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Anyway to create SMTP Server on Windows 7? [closed]
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Implementing a SMTP server on a personal computer (windows)
I'm thinking of a case where I can use a SMTP Server on my own system to actually send email from thunderbird ...
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Connecting a Brother MFC 8890DW to SMTP via SSL
Currently able to scan to email using aspmx.l.google.com on port 25. Everything I've read about the 8890DW talks about SSL, but nowhere does it say anything specific. When trying to connect to ...
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Why do I get timeout problems with Thunderbird and Sendgrid?
I am helping my friends sending a newsletter (1000 recipients) using Thunderbird 7.0.1 and the Mail Merge plugin.
For the SMTP provider we are using Sendgrid.
Mail Merge plugin nicely splits the ...
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Simple local smtp server - minimal setup ubuntu
What is the absolute, bare minimum, no-hassle, hopefully idiot-proof way of setting up a local smtp server?
If you're going to say postfix, what are these alledgedly bare minimum, idiot proof steps ...
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Looking for a PHP mail intercepting application
I have PHP (XAMPP) set up locally on a Windows OS, and I am writing a webapp with it. This webapp send out several emails. For testing purposes I do not actually wish to forward mails generated by the ...
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Not allowing connection to email servers
I have no idea why its doing this or what's wrong.
Suddenly our company Windows 7 laptop stopped sending and receiving emails. The problem it gives in outlook is that a connection cannot be made to ...
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local msmtp and ovh hosting
I have my personal email hosted on OVH (personal hosting plan) and I'm not able to send mails using msmtp.
Here's a typical session
ignoring system configuration file /etc/msmtprc: File o directory ...
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Add smtp account works on gmail, but not in apple mail, solution?
I've spent hours trying to configure my apple mail smtp servers to work.
Frustrated, I tried to add the same account to my gmail account.
using port 465 on SSL worked just fine.
Is there something ...
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Can't send email via Postfix SMTP, but can receive it via IMAP fine
I'm running Ubuntu, have Postfix installed. Followed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix to the letter.
I can receive email via IMAP and POP3 perfectly in Thunderbird. But when I try to send ...
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Cannot connect on port 25
I have two computers on a simple home wireless network. Both XP SP3 and Outlook 2007. One computer can send e-mail fine either via Outlook or via telnet domain.com 25, so I assume it's not the ISP ...
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Telnet-ing to alternative SMTP port: “No route to host”
At home is a Mac Lion Server running a mail server. I have a VPS thats used as relay for incoming mail, to prevent problems when my home server might go down. Because my ISP sometimes blocks port 25, ...
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Remote smtp into ubuntu postfix email server
I'm trying to use Microsoft Outlook to manage my mail on my Ubuntu server. I can download my inbox fine via IMAP. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to connect to SMTP to send outgoing ...
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Free SMTP server with TLS support
I'm looking for a free SMTP server with TLS support for testing. I tried using Gmail, but my account got disabled the moment I tried sending an email from a Python script.
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SMTP forwarding services?
I have my own server on the internet, which runs a SMTP server to forward emails for multiple domains to other email accounts (gmail, yahoo,...). But my server is not very reliable since I do ...
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How to setup mailserver on Windows XP standalone?
I'm playing with the javamail API. To test my code about the only thing that seems to work is to connect to my web email (yahoo/msn/gmail/rediff) and do the deed. The trouble with testing online is ...
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Command-line SMTP Server?
Is there a free command-line-based, lightweight SMTP server for Windows?
All I'm looking for is the ability to send HTML emails from the command-line, using a standalone EXE, with the program being ...
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Simplest way to run an authenticated SMTP server on Linux?
What is the simplest way I can get a secure, authenticated SMTP server running on my Linux machine so my family can use it to send mail from hostile networks?
Currently I have exim bound to 127.1:25 ...
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Is Postfix difficult to manage on Linux?
I want to use localhost as my SMTP server. Am I better off installing Postfix locally, or relying on another machine running an SMTP service with an access control list in which I have to be added ...
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SMTP Client for testing a potentially broken mail server
I need a simple Windows SMTP client for testing direct delivery of mail to a server, to debug some e-mail problems I am having. I have tried several applications, and found none to be very useful:
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PuTTY closes when opening SMTP over Telnet on certain server
I have PuTTY installed on Vista. When I set it to Telnet and put in a host name of SMTP2Go.com and port of 25 the window opens for a second not showing any text then closes. I also tried ports 2525, ...
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Getting SMTP timeout on one computer
One of the computers in the office is getting an SMTP connection timeout when trying to send e-mails.
All the others seem to work ok.
What could be the problem.
Using Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 Prof.
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Why can't I email myself at: MyEmail@74.125.235.55?
I opened cmd and typed ping gmail.com it shows me
C:\Windows\system32>ping gmail.com
Pinging gmail.com [74.125.235.55] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.235.55: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=56
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How do I add SMTP to my server?
I installed WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) on an old computer to use as a server. How can I install SMTP?
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Securing smtp with login
I have a ispconfig server, and it seems that someone is using it to send spam. I got about 130 "Mail Delivery System" email about declined send email.
This spammer uses my email address as sent from ...
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Setting and Testing SMTP in Windows7
I am using SMTP service to send mail through my application
This application is working on all O/S
My O/S is Windows 7
I have added my SMTP server name etc in the SMTP settings
But there is no ...
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Manual SMTP with anonymous sender
I read that you can connect to an SMTP server (like gmail, hotmail, etc) via telnet, and manually put in commands to send anonymous email (or even worse, send email with a false "from" address). Is ...
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Preventing Sendmail Brute Force Attack on Solaris 10
I want to dynamically block specific connections that use the same IP address based on a rate or connection limit. Is this possible using Solaris/IPF or some sendmail extension? I want to limit ...
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ISP mail server blocking me?
I'm currently writing an email client for fun/practice and I've noticed that after sending out a handful of test emails (10 or so) over a short period of time, the emails stop going through. At some ...
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how do I change postfix port from 25 to 587?
I am total noob about Unix and CLI. after googling for almost 6 hours I came to know I should be editing postfix port from 25 to 587 for PHP mail() function to work. and here is the solution I got ...
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Secure email sending with Thunderbird?
In the Thunderbird 3 SMTP configuration dialog, there's a security section:
If I want to send email without naughty hackers intercepting it, what should I choose? The "Connection security" options ...
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Disable remote mail in exim
i am a web developer and have exim4 installed on my dev box, recently i needed to send a scripted email to a few project managers and so got exim heavy and all that setup which went well. Now i'm back ...
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Exim setup for large outgoing mail queues
I have a fairly standard Exim setup for inbound and outbound mail. Recently our development team has put together a PHP app that allows us to send out bulk mails to our clients. The PHP app uses ...
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How to disable outgoing SMTP server for certain Outlook accounts?
In my Outlook 2007 I setup Internet mail accounts for several e-mail providers. I use only one of them (default) for sending, while all others are just for receiving. When I check for e-mails, ...
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Ssmtp sending via gmail, but gmail complains “Delivery to the following recipend failed”
I configured ssmtp on my ubuntu machine according to many sources on the net. My ssmtp.conf is:
root=my_email@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
rewriteDomain=eurybiades
hostname=
UseTLS=Yes
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how to install postfix as simple as possible?
I'm not even sure whether postfix is what I need. I need to be able to execute mail() function inside php scripts to test my sites.
I don't need it to be secure or whatever. I'm the only person who ...
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OS X Snow Leopard as Full-bore SMTP Server
For a new business, I need to run my own SMTP server out of my home. I can't use the SMTP servers of either our web host or our ISP because of limitations they place on outgoing emails. For example, ...
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In Thunderbird how to get mail on second computer?
I have been using one computer to access mail (with Outlook) and now I am trying to get all my mail from the server from another computer (using Thunderbird). But I can download only new mail.
I am ...
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SMTP email in PuTTY
What are the steps for sending an email (via SMTP) in PuTTY?
Also, is it possible to attach files?
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Foward Outlook Web Access (OWA) to GMail using POP and SMTP
I want to receive all my company emails in my GMail... So I need to configure a POP/SMTP acess to my OWA account.
Problem is that I can't find the right pop server address to start the journey. :/
