MTA stands for Mail Transfer Agent. An MTA is a server-side program which accepts and transmits email messages on behalf of end users. Examples: sendmail, postfix, qmail.
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Postfix piping to php issue: “cannot append message to file: cannot open file: Permission denied”
I am having some issues with setting up piping to a php app (WHMCS).
The mail is coming to the server however it is bouncing.
The maillog shows:-
May 15 12:51:14 hostname postfix/smtpd[2123]: ...
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Postfix not receiving external mail. Sending mail OK
I am having some issues setting up Postfix to receive mail on Centos.
This is a web server that I'm setting up to only pipe mail to a php application so the server hostname is hostname.mydomain.com.
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Verifying MTA for correct behavior with swaks
I'm looking for some advice, what I should to check at my brand new mail-server for it's correct behavior. /saying behavior, because it is working - just but want be sure than it is working ...
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Simple, forwarding-only MTA?
I have a domain and a server. I’d like to have some e-mail addresses on the domain and I’d like to forward them elsewhere. I’d love to avoid running a full-featured MTA on the server, since they’re ...
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postfix and dovecot on centos vps
I am setting up a Postfix Mail Server on My VPS with CentOS. I managed to install it and now its working in the website. The problem i am facing now is to make it work with users. as when i create a ...
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Deliver mail originating from machine/processes to outside machine
I'm running a Ubuntu 12.04lts server with denyhosts, logwatch, apticron etc daemons which send emails to a user on the machine when something happens.
Since I don't use the root account; I aliassed ...
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Creating a mailbox for sendmail using adduser / mailboxes without system user accounts
I want to create some mailboxes for Sendmail and I am going to do it with the adduser system utility, so every mailbox will be a user in the system. How do I restrict the privileges of these accounts ...
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Exim 4.69 denying outbound mail due to syntactically invalid EHLO (bizarre pseudo-MAC FQDN)
Since yesterday (new router, which I suspect is the root cause) a client's been having trouble sending email. Receiving is fine, just the outbound is constantly failing.
Tailing Exim's mainlog, this ...
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In postfix how can I conditionally enforce check_sender_access
I am servicing 2 virtual domains: domain1.org , domain2.org. I want to enforce the following policy:
If a client connects from an IP address in $mynetworks then I want to allow only mails for which ...
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Using a local MTA as gateway to Sendgrid
I am setting up an email system using Interspire Email Marketer with 5 user accounts, and each user has their own Sendgrid account.
We are trying to build a fast system, so we have a dedicated MySQL ...
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How to configure a mail server on Debian Squeeze?
How can I configure a mail server on Debian Squeeze with Postfix or Exim4 without the need to relay on another smtp server?
And is it possible to add multiple email addresses for the same user? ...
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how to receive emails on linux? [closed]
Is there any small utility to receive emails on linux ? Ideally I would need to point mx records on my server and through just a command read all the emails received. I don't need pop3, imap, any user ...
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how to run postfix by hand
I compiled postfix 2.9.5 with mysql backend.You know postfix daemons are ran with postfix, So i don't know main postfix daemon to run by hand. What's main daemon ?
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Mail rejected if it is a reply to previous mail
I have the problem that a server is rejecting emails from my mail server if they are replies to previous mails. If a new mail is sent it can be delivered.
Either I receive this error message
host ...
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Harvest netblocks of good MTAs from SPF for whitelisting [closed]
I'm configuring greylisting, and one of the things I would like to do is explicitly whitelist good MTAs of e.g. google.com, ebay.com, schwab.com, freebsd.org, uwaterloo.ca etc.
It seems like with the ...
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Do I need to setup an SMTP MTA for a contact us form on a VPS?
I'm about to setup a Linode running a Centos server with a rails apps. The rails app has a contact us form. That justs send enquirys to the site owner. No other email functionality is needed
The site ...
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Postfix: not receiving duplicated emails + testing with gmail + testing with telnet
I set up a MTA on EC2 with postfix using this guide:
http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix
It has been working for me. I've tested it locally on the MTA machine with telnet. I've also tested it by having ...
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unable to send mail through the from address in gmail
I am trying to send mail using postfix, I have set up all the things, the mail is going, I have set up the email using my domain i.e. xyz@domain.com.
When When I am using the following code
ehlo xyz
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How do I set up postfix to store e-mail in a file instead of relaying it?
I want to run a staging copy of a production server on a local environment. The system runs a PHP application, which sends e-mail to customers in various scenarios and I want to make sure no e-mail is ...
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Route all postfix mail through noreply@
I want postfix to send out all email via noreply@mydomain.com
My main.cf looks like
sender_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/canonical
local_header_rewrite_clients = static:all
and my canonical ...
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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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Is null return path reliable indication of a bounce?
I have a mailbox that receives bounces as well as normal email (the latter includes messages from automated services). I want to filter out the bounces and forward them to another mailbox. Assume I ...
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How to Set Up an SMTP Submission Server on Linux
I was trying to set up a mail server with no luck. I want it to accept mail from authenticated users only and deliver them. I want the users to be able to connect over the internet. Ideally the ...
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spf record setup
Emails sent by mta from my server recognizes by spam filters as spam and there's message :
Received-SPF: neutral ...
Actually, I am not spammer :)
So, I googled around these questions and found that ...
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How to check which mta / mail program is in use?
Is there a command to tell me what MTA/sendmail a unix system uses?
Thanks very much
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Trying to setup catchall mail forwarding on my rackspace's cloudspace server
I'm running Ubuntu 12 Precise Pangolin and am trying to configure my server to catchall mail sent to it and forward it to my gmail address. I've been trying lots of examples online like editing my ...
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MailEnable Receiving Error [closed]
I have an issue with my mail server that I cannot seem to resolve. We are running Plesk 9.3 on a windows server (2008 R2) and the issue appears to be with the MailEnable MTA as restarting this fixes ...
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DKIM sign any outgoing mail as the same domain. is possibly?
I have a website, and the users recommend via email to another persons, so the mail come from my site, but I need to appear the user as sender, but "via" mydomain. The logically and what lists ...
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What should I use for a forwarding only mail server?
I have a VPS running ubuntu 11.10 for a Django app, I want to be able to handle the email for one specific domain (already have the reverse lookup setup with the ISP for that domain), all I'm doing is ...
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Postfix Is it possible to rewrite From: field to email used in authorization procedure
It's known that users can provide any email in From: field.
I need to prevent it by rewriting it to email used in authorization procedure.
Is it possible to do in postfix? Or may be other MTA?
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Does the MTA (Postfix, Exim, etc.) get installed seperate from the mail server
I'm new to mail servers and still trying to understand all the components.
What I read is that there are many MTAs, but the 4 common ones are qmail, Postfix, Sendmail, and Exim.
I also found this ...
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how do I setup Postfix to accept all email and send to a specific address?
I want to setup a catch-all email address for my domain. ie ( anything sent to support@mydomain.com or foobar11123@mydomain.com will go to a specific mailbox ). I've got Postfix working with local ...
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Open source MTA software? [closed]
I currently have a Parrallels QMail server and I need to setup a new server. I wish to use an open source MTA. Are there any other choice than QMail, Exim, SendMail and PostFix? Is any of these ...
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Configure Exim to forward email
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 VPS set up to manage sub.example.com and I've configured Exim to send email using this tutorial from the Linode Library. That's working, but in addition to sending email I ...
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Can exim delay emails after a defined limit is reached?
In a vps I am limited by a certain number of sent emails per minute (they say it's a way to control spam!), I could use a relay server but I don't want!
Probably I will never reach the limit, but ...
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Configure CRON to use a particular MTA
I have one server on which cron jobs are ran. I don't want to install sendmail or postfix on this server but still want to get mails from cron.
I have installed Heirloom mailx ...
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Any idea about Exim 4 account auth settings
I work on a newsletter system for my project and I wanna use exim4 (lightweight version) for sending newaletters (just for newsletters because the mail is hosted separated...on google apps). But there ...
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Making CommuniGate Pro react better on SPAM and Backscatter issues
I would like to make a CGP mail server as SPAM free as possible.
I made some research but didn't find so much.
So my question: where should I start in order to make CommuniGate dealing better with ...
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connecting exim4 to openldap on remote server
I have a server running qmail with about 300 user accounts on a ubuntu version 8 server.
I would like to migrate qmail to a new mta such as exim4.x. I have a VM setup using redhat enterprise version 6 ...
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setup postfix or equiv to only forward to new address
Is there a dead easy way to set up an MTA to only redirect incoming mail
user@mydomain.com -> myCheapGmailAccount@gmail.com
Yes, I've tried various postfix guides but I'm lost in configuration.
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What is reasonable size of outgoing and incoming emails configured in mail server? [closed]
I'm wondering what is reasonable size of outgoing/incoming mail configured in mail server (in my case postfix). What is the risk of setting this size to big. Does it depends only on parameters of my ...
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Postfix port 25 unavailable
Is there a condition or state that Postfix can enter that will prevent connectivity on port 25?
Am using Javamail to send to postfix as the local MTA, which works about 99% of the time. However, I ...
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Is it possible to sign email with digital signature on server side?
I have nice iRedMail server (postfix, dovecot, policyd). One of my client apps sends email via this server. And client want to sign it with digital signature on server side. Is it even possible to do ...
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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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Exim4 Pause Outgoing IP
I'm wondering how you would go about pausing an ip address to a remote domain based on a string received. I received an error code from yahoo and my IP was blocked for a long time. I was told it was ...
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DIY Linux email journalling system
I need to journal all incoming and outgoing emails.
Currently emails are relayed by Edge transport server to Exchange 2010 email store.
I'd like to stick a linux server in-line with an MTA. It would ...
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MTA's poor reputation
Rather randomly only just started happening but when sending emails to certain people my emails are getting bounced back. I've set up domain keys and SPF records. I am with Just Host using an email ...
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How running a mta with exim on centos?
I'm try learning run a MTA with virtual domains and exim from 2 weeks ago.
but now, I can not do any thing. i select exim for mta and dovecot for imap daemon. but i can not run them, i can not ...
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Bugzilla - How to setup MTA that will receive Gmail to create bugs
I have been looking for a while on setting up an MTA for bugzilla to receive bugs via email and am not really seeing any detailed guides.
Currently I am using gmail as the outbound smtp for messages, ...
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How read mail from /var/spool/postfix/deferred?
Is there a way to read deffered mail from /var/spool/postfix/deferred. I tried to copy file to my mail directory and see it from webmail but it dosnt work. When im using less or cat it seems like ...
