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postfix pcre conditional REPLACE

I need to modify the "From:" header line in incoming e-mail messages only if "Message-Id:" starts with a defined string. So in main.cf I put: header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks and ...
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E-mails being relayed to other server

I'm having issues with my mail server. I have 2 VPSes set up, each handle a few domains using postfix/dovecot. Both servers are configured almost identically, aside from the domains they handle. They ...
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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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imap error, no such file or directory, a bad configuration on postfix?

I am trying to create virtual accounts for email on my Debian Squeeze, everything is supposed to be set fine, but when I send a test mail (from console with mailx) and I try to check it throught ...
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Postfix deliver mail to correct mail server based on MX Records

We are using Debian and postfix to send mail for our CMS. Our website and email use the same domain but our email is hosted elsewhere. So, sadly when our server tries to send some mail (from some ...
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Was around Postfix and PHP sent emails always get tagged as spam [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to send emails and avoid them being classified as spam I have a legitimate website that sends out emails using postfix for user signup validation. I am running a VPS ...
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Pligg user verification error

i installed pligg CMS on my site. But the problem is if i choose to validate user email option, then if any user register on my site it is showing the error below: "Could not instantiate mail ...
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Logging into mail server works through telnet but fails though imap(s) (Dovecot+MySQL)

I have followed the ISPMail tutorial on how to set up a Debian mail server. I can log into the dovecot server through telnet like this: [root@{hostname}: /home/{user}]# telnet {hostname}.{TLD} 143 ...
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Troubles with Dovecot + Webmin on Debian 6.0

I installed Apache, PHP5, MySQL and Webmin on a vps. I host my website on that. I completely reinstalled whole VPS with fresh installation of Postfix and Dovecot. But Dovecot fails to start, so ...
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How to install email system on Debian 6.0

As title says i wanna full email support on my Debian 6.0 VPS. It can send/Receive emails thround roudcube or something I cann add more email accounts to my domain I used Google and didn't find ...
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how to set up outbound email on a fresh server? [closed]

I'm a novice when it comes to server admin, and I need some help. I recently got sick of GoDaddy, and I signed up for an unmanaged rackspace server. I'm running a Debian instance, and I'd like to set ...
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Postfix filter messages and pass to PHP script

Each time a user signs up to our website through an external provider we get a basic email with the body contents containing the user details. I want to write a personalised automatic reply to this ...
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Postfix as a relay for specific networks only

I have a strange issue with postfix that is driving me a little up the wall as it seems to work 50% of the time but with no changes made. What I want to achieve: I have a number of virtual servers ...
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How to find out what program is sending emails

I have linux (debian) box which is running fine. However I have problem I need to find out what program is sending emails when i use "mail" command. Or for that matter when a PHP script is sending ...
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Email sent from Centos end up in user spam folder [closed]

I am facing this issue, I use the default postfix MTA in centos but the mail end up in user spam folder, but this does not seem to be a problem in Debian using exim4, both host have hostname and ...
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How to get a list of Dovecot IMAP users

How do you get a list of users for a dovecot email server that connect via IMAP (as opposed to POP)? Our server is setup to authenticate via LDAP/PAM. Is there an easy way to get a list of the users ...
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Setting up OpenDKIM with postfix

I intalled opendkim with sendmanil (on Ubuntu) without any problem, and followed the same procedure for installing on another server (Debian with postfix), but it does not work. Strangely, there is no ...
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can not sending mail with exim4 in debian

i have installed the exim4 using aptitude install exim4 and configure with dpgk-reconfigure exim4-config this is my /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf file: dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet' ...
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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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Redirect all incoming mail into a script

I have no idea about Mail Delivery. but i need redirect ALL incoming e-mail (*@mydomain.com) into an a php script. i'm using debian Exists a simple mail server to do this? (without exim, postfix, ...
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Email Vyatta Log File

I have a vyatta set up as the top layer of security on a website. The vyatta is running IPS which then outputs to a log file. What I would like to do is to set the Vyatta to email me this log file ...
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Exim4: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

I'm currently having an issue with exim4. Some mail isn't delivered. I found this in my rejected log. 2012-06-21 10:11:47 H=bart (bart.*.com) [192.168.171.145] F=<info@****.com> rejected RCPT ...
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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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Issue with exim4u

I am using exim4u for a mail server on debian. Everything has been working fine until recently. I have not done anything to the server from the time it was working until now. I have a domain set up ...
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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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Read/parse mail.log to make easier debugging

I need to go through the mail.log and filter out a few emails that have been causing problems and wondered if there is anyway to make my life easier. Is there anyway to parse the mail.log to make it ...
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Mail not being sent by exim4 to specific domain

I administer a web server running Debian 5.0.1 on an Amazon EC2 instance and it uses exim4 for sending email. One of the sites on this server sends periodic emails to an email address: ...
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Remove exim local username

How can i remove the local username in the mail headers with exim4 running on debian 6? Received: from root by host.domain.com with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from <reply@domain.com>) id ...
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Exim and receiving email with large recipient lists

I have Exim4 running on Debian configured to receive mail on multiple domains. Exim is set to forward all email that is received to one of the domains to another box. This box is configured with a ...
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Postfix & amavis on a dedicated server

I have 3 servers: server 1 and 2 are listed as mx servers for different domains and server 3 is for amavis/spamd/clamd filtering for both server 1 & 2. My plan is to have 'first pass' postfix ...
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Postfix: “Relay Access Denied”

I've been following this tutorial: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html For some reason, even after making sure that I set it up correctly, it will not send any mail to external domains. It can ...
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Using postfix to relay/forward to gmail

I have set-up postfix on Debian 6 and I would like to forward emails to my gmail account. This is my /etc/postfix/main.cf file: # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line ...
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VPS/Dedicated Mail Server - Perfect Setup?

I want to install a server in a VPS or Dedicated just to handle email. The server will just hosting email, imap accounts and i've choose dovecot for that. But what it the best setup for this? So ...
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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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Logging outgoing mails in debian? How, where?

I need to see if a php application has sent a bulk mailing. Would these messages be logged? How could I tell whether logging is enabled / how would I set it up The VPS is running debian. Any help ...
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send mail via smtp on debian 6?

i followed this tutorial http://library.linode.com/email/exim/send-only-mta-debian-6-squeeze?format=print When i got to the end, i sent the email to me@gmail.com. I didnt receive it. I didnt get spam ...
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Simple Outgoing Mailserver With Dkim filters

What is the most simple MTA to use and configure on Debian 6 squeeze, with dkim filters? I would like to only send mail from it, not receive. Google apps handles my inbound email.
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Efficient Send Only Newsletter Mail Server

I'm working on setting up a mail server to send the company I work for's newsletter. The idea is to give us more options and not have to pay another company hundreds of dollars a month to send all our ...
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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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How to Run a script when a mail arrives in mail server? (Debian)

I want to parse and insert some information from the mail that just arrived in a mission critical application's mail server. I there any way to configure my mail server so that it run a script when ...
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Migrate live server

I'm in trouble, I have a running server with the usual services (httpd, mail, sql), and looks like I must be really fast to prevent total data loss (my RAID array failed, so I'm depending on a single ...
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Why postfix doesn't follow From header from PHP mail();

I have installed postfix with no config option. I am trying to send email with php mail(); it works but it sends email with the default email of my dedicated server. Are there anyway to tell ...
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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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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 auto create Maildir

I've been beating my head against a wall for a while now on this one. Basically, here is the rundown: Our MX record points to a frontend SMTP server, which contains aliases for actually routing the ...
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Exim rejects recipient address on my domain

I have a dedicated server (debian) on which I have installed Exim and Dovecot. Everything worked fine until around a month ago. I tried to reinstall and reconfigure exim but I keep having all the ...
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Capture Outgoing Email to One Mailbox or Account on Linux

I am looking to see if anything exists that would allow us to capture all outgoing email on a machine -- for example, in a staging environment -- and drop it in a single place, which ideally would be ...
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How to change password schema for Dovecot user authentication for an already existing mail server

I have an email server setup on Debian Lenny with Postfix, Dovecot, SASL and MySQL. Currently, the password scheme in my dovecot-sql.conf file is set to: CRYPT default_pass_scheme = CRYPT I would ...
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monitoring outbound traffic on port 25

I just started up a new instance that i build using debian squeeze on amazon last night. This morning I just got an email saying that I reached a limit on the volume of email you were able to send ...

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