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How can I set MX records and confirm emails?

I am working with a friend who has two domains, foo.com and bar.com, and would like to use Google Apps to handle email for those domains. This is something of a virgin install, and Google Apps wants ...
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Sendmail wont send to same domain

I'm using sendmail on my webserver, which so far is working fine. However, when I send emails to the same domain I'm sending them from, they never get delivered. I temporarily changed the email ...
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Exim spaming errors to log and doesn't send mail to several domains

I have a server with CentOS 5.6 installed on it. It has working mail server of exim + dovecot + mysql + roundcube. My log file /var/log/exim/main.log is already of 3 Gb and continues to grow. It ...
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How to alias emails on domain level with live mails?

I have 2 domain names like xyzoo.com and xyzooo.com. xyzooo.com is my primary domain and I have all my email accounts setup @xyzooo.com. I want to configure my other domain in some way so that ...
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Redirecting Domain using Route53 DNS

I'm thinking of redirect the user to http://webmail.domain.com/3rdparty/roundcube directly instead of http://webmail.domain.com/ Is there anyway i can do this, it only seem that i can edit the"Sub ...
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SPF from neutral to positive

I need to be able to configure SPF rule for my domain. Problem is that I can normally receive all the emails. But when I send to some recipients they receive it as spam. In the mail failure delivery ...
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Somebody has been sending spam from my domain. Other than setting SPF records, is there anything else I can do? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Spam coming from domain, but from a user that I don’t have How to stop people from using my domain to send spam? For weeks I've been getting 10-20 delivery failure ...
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Point a domain to Amazon EC2 but keeping emails in current server

Good day everyone. Im going through my adventure in the cloud. I have this deal, never done it before so i don't know where to start, i would like some directions. I have a client that currently they ...
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How common (or uncommon) is using full email address for email login? [closed]

I was hoping you fine folks could comment on your experiences with using a full email address as a login name for an email service vs. using the username (everything before the @domain.tld). I ask ...
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How to Limit the Damage of Domain Spoofing

My e-mail account, for my privately run business which I'll call "VeryCoolCompany", is starting to receive bounce-backs for users who don't exist, like these: alan12ab1@verycoolcompany.com ...
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Bulk email forwarding

I own a domain lets call it wholesale.com, what I would like to do is set it so that any email sent to @wholesale.com will be received in my gmail.com email account. I believe this can be done by ...
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AWS own email domain and some generic questions

I'm getting started with Amazon Web Services and I have a few question I'm not sure about. As every (company) webpage I want to use an "office@companyname.com" email adress, but how is that done? I ...
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Recover sent mail's from PHP mail

I've got a server with Plesk installed. On this I've got a website on a virtual domain which contains the PHP function mail. Due to some "problems" with Plesk, virtual domains and PHP mail: Plesk, ...
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MX records not correctly updated by the Google DNS servers

We are currently losing some e-mail and we discovered that this is caused by a wrong DNS setting. We used a CNAME for our MX record an thats not allowed. So about 2 weeks ago we changed it to an ...
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Where does email sent to *@example.com go? [closed]

So I've wondered this for a long time. Where does email sent to *@example.com go? If I accidentally sent sensitive information to *@example.com would some evil person (potentially at the IANA) be ...
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Linux Sendmail Same username multiple domains

I have configure my sendmail for multiple domains by creating username like sales@domain1.com sales@domain2.com sales@domain3.com in passwd file Now I added entry in file /etc/mail/virtusetable ...
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DNS records to have website on different server

I've been asked by my client to set up their website on a different server to where their domain currently points to. They have their email and the domain name hosted with one company at the moment ...
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Two domain names one Sendmail account

I have pointed domain1.com and domain2.com to the same server on the same IP. Now email directed to me@domain2.com gets rejected: X.X.X.X does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 ...
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New domain, used by spammers

I just registered a new domain last week. I associated it with my Google Apps account. Apparently, some spam bot is using it with fake account names to send spam and I'm receiving a ton of bounces. ...
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Fixing typos in user-entered email addresses

We see some typo domains in our mail queue from time to time and I have been thinking of using our internal DNS server to correct these people's mistakes. Some examples from the current mail queue: ...
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Postfix: Can't recieve mail from outside the box

i've followed this tutorial in order to get a postfix mail server with virtual domains running: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/ Right now i still have not implemented the wole tutorial but i have ...
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Why does the Postfix proxymap process keeps failing?

I recently took the dark path to managing my own VPS with shell access (CentOS 5). I installed the LAMP stack, FTP etc. then setting up mail server I used postfix, dovecot and squirrel mail as client. ...
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If I change a nameserver but preserve the MX record will it harm email?

My client already has email setup with a provider but would like their website hosted by a different provider. Currently they just have a NS record pointed at the company that hosts their email. I ...
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Postfix is sending mail with wrong domain

I've managed to setup a simple mail server that is working on every level but with one exception: when I'm sending email to an external email address, the receiver is seeing it as coming from ...
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Recommend a mail server setup for multiple domains [closed]

I've just set up a new Debian web server which I have done plenty of times before, but I want to add a mail server which I have never done before. I am aware of this question, but I would like ...
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Postfix configuration / Multiple virtual host

I rent a server couple of month ago, but i never managed to configure correclty postfix. I explain, i have 4 domains, hosted appart from the dedicaced domain and i want to recieve/send mail to my ...
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PHP/mail : server sends email originating from wrong domain

I have a Mediatemple dv (Plesk) server with two domains, each has static IP. I had domain1 as main domain and domain2 as secondary. When A PHP script from domain2 sends email the headers show the ...
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Is this SPF record correct for me?

I'm completely new to Stack Overflow, so Hi! I need to add an SPF record to my site "main.com" (not the real address) to allow an email publishing company "emailpublishers.com" (not the real address) ...
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how to add email to domain I purchased from godaddy

I just purchased a domain from godaddy. However, I did not buy email from them. Is there a way to add email to my domain? for example support@mydomain.com? I was going through this google apps ...
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remote telnet and email

This issue has been occupying my work for the last few days and I will be understating when I say its driven me up the blasted walls. Essentially, I can ping and tracert the domain jnrcs.org and the ...
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Bind/Name Server with master domain and multiple subdomains

I am having a brain fart. I can not figure this out. I am sure someone has asked this before, but just can not seem to find it. (hence the brain fart) if you look at the following domain names as ...
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Google Apps for Domains, Multiple Domains

I have a primary google apps for domains account which I use for my personal email, calender, docs etc and is great. I also receive my pop3 company email via settings->Get mail from other accounts in ...
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How sending email works?

when a user sends an email.. what is the procedures that is happening? i mean how the servers is distinguishing between @gmail.com and http://gmail.com for example? are there special ...
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Postfix: virtual_alias_maps delivering everything to one user despite new domain

I have a postfix installation handling mail for a couple of domains, for which all mail goes to one real local user (cmb), and I want to add a new domain (let's call it example.org) for a second user, ...
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Tutorial: from registered domain to running mail server on ADSL connection?

Does anyone know of a tutorial that takes me from having registered a domain name (with eNom through Google) to a running IMAP mail server (preferably based on Ubuntu) connected to the internet via a ...
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How should I setup separate MX records for a subdomain?

Let's say I have a domain that I run a web application on, for example cranketywidgets.com, and I'm using Google Apps for handling email for people working on that domain, for example, support@ ...
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I think installing PostFix solved my problem, but it seemed *too* easy

This is a followup to a serverfault post I made a while ago: http://serverfault.com/questions/21633/how-do-i-target-a-different-mail-server-depending-on-domain-with-exim (More context here too: ...