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Sendmail Exception reached when thousands emails sent in bulk mail script. Has sendmail a email-sent limit for a given process?

I am a little desperate with a problem in our web server. Our web is a community with a lot of users and activity. We send to users personalized mails of the activity of their interest. We have a ...
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Sendmail still displays through telnet even though I'm using Postfix [closed]

I recently installed and configured Postfix, and removed every aspect of Sendmail that I could from my Debian x86 system. telnet localhost 25 ...still returns that I'm using Sendmail. I've ...
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Linux- Is an MTA required?

My VPS image (Debian 6) comes pre-installed with sendmail as the MTA. I will use this server as a web server, and maybe other usages but not as a mail server. I want to remove as many unneeded ...
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can't send mail with exim4 and php

i'm using debian & apache. if i install sendmail, the php mail() function works perfectly. but else i install exim4, the php mail() function does nothing. i have changed the php.ini editing the ...
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Sendmail uninstallation issues

Something went wrong with my sendmail installation so I uninstalled it with --purge. I still see the /etc/init.d/sendmail script and /etc/mail is full of sendmail files (.db, aliases, etc). Is there ...
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Sendmail connection timeout

I recently setup a new Debian server, After installing and setting up sendmail for the first time, I am not able to send e-mail. Reason : Connection timeout. Output from the /var/log/mail.log : ...
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MAIL_HUB / LOCAL_RELAY for multiple domains

I'm running a debian server that hosts multiple domains, each of them using google apps. I managed to get sendmail to deliver the emails from domain1.com by using the following in ...
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Cannot send emails via sendmail and php mail() to certain domains [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Outgoing mail from linux not being delivered SOLUTION As someone marked this a a duplicate I cannot post the actual answer that worked for me and that can be found ...
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mail() sometimes not working, problem in sendmail parameter

The mail() function in php works strange these days. <?php mail("email@mail.com", "Subject", "Content"); ?> The above script works if I use "php script.php" in command line. However, if I ...
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60 second php mail() delay through browser / Apache, but no delay through commandline

I am having a problem on my server when the PHP mail() function is being used in a browser, so through Apache. When the script, lets call it mailtest.php, is being called through a browser, there is ...
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Sendmail sending @samedomain emails to /var/mail/root

I found out a lot of people with the same problem but anybody actually solved it aparently The thing is that i can send emails to anyone@anywhere but when i send to @mydomain it is sending to ...
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How to send non-local mail, with GMail(GApps) SMTP?

I have some (~3) Debian boxes, and I want to post system mails to my non-local mailbox. But I have problems with configuring exim4. Also I don't like so much the exim4's config. Too different and also ...
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sendmail (postfix) stopped delivering mails

how can I find out why postfix / sendmail stopped delivering mail? I tried to sendmail from the console, no errors showed but it has been nothing delivered... the same when by using mail() in php.. ...
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Setup sendmail to relay to another smtp?

My host provides an smtp server for sending mail. I want to setup sendmail to relay all emails to the hosts smtp server. How do you do that?
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sendmail: website and email on same domain/server

I am using sendmail for my website, my email address is also using the same server name. So, www.zedsaid.com and nic@zedsaid.com. Sendmail seems to not want to actual deliver the mail to my inbox, ...
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Prevent mail being marked as spam

I'm wondering how to prevent my emails from my site being marked as spam? I'm using sendmail. I'm trying to send emails through my ruby-on-rails application. The mails are all written in swedish (if ...
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Monitor partition size on Debian

How can I monitor my /backups partition on my Debian-Lenny box? I have sendmail and I would like to receive an email when my partition gets over, for instance, 80% of its total size.
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sendmail not working

I'm trying to use the mail() function in PHP on a Debain Linux server. I have 2 web servers running. One is in a chrooted setup. The server that's not chrooted works fine, the other one wont send ...
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Sendmail smrsh alias script piping problem on Ubuntu/Debian

I have been banging my head against this problem for 2 weeks. What I am trying to do is pipe a sendmail alias (catchall for a virtusal domain) to a php script. However, I always get the following ...
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Postfix 501 Invalid Address - Recover these messages?

I built a form for a client and realized that I used an invalid address for the FROM field. (501 Invalid Address (in reply to MAIL FROM command)). Is there any way that I can recovered these form ...
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How to set up sendmail server to be most welcome to bounce/bad email notifications

I am in the process of setting up a mail server (using sendmail to be exact). The server needs to be as open towards receiving notifications of "bad"/bouncing emails as entirely possible. I am not ...
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Sendmail MTA, smarthost not working

I have configured Sendmail to work with a smarthost by adding the following line to the configuration define('SMART_HOST', 'smtp.ISP.TLD')dnl and after that I issued make -C /etc/mail The mail ...
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milter-regex / Ubuntu or Debian

I have been using milter-regex (http://www.benzedrine.cx/milter-regex.html) on Redhat for some time and am moving to Ubuntu. When compiling the source from their website, I get errors, even though I ...
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My server is sending me huge amounts of email from root@domain.com, how can I diagnose this issue?

I am the admin and I am getting email on my personal email address, I am getting over 1000 emails per hour with "Test mail" subject line. I have checked as many scripts as i could but cannot figure ...
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sendmail user unknown - debian lenny

My php's mail() function just stopped working a short while ago. It's started returning FALSE. I am not much of a sysadmin so please forgive my ignorance. I set my php.ini send_path option to: ...