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. Compare to MUA or Mail User Agent: a program for reading and writing email. Examples: Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. The terms ...
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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 [closed]
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 ...
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Should I run my own MTA?
I need to send a large volume of emails, roughly 60.000 per week. At the moment we outsource this service to a third party, and we expect to double our volume within the next 6 months.
Since the ...
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Does QMail save a copy of emails sent?
I've been asked to retrieve a specific email for a user (true James Bond-style..). It has been sent through a mail form on our website, but the user never got an email confirmation receipt because ...
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external postfix forwarding to zimbra server
I want to migrate from my current mail server (old_server) for my domain mydomain.com. old_server setup is Postfix+LDAP+Cyrus.
Now I want to migrate my domain mail to Zimbra server (zimbra), but I ...
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Postfix mail server cannot receive external mail but can send external mail
I hosted the domain mydomain.com on the IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. I created an A record to point mydomain.com to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. On xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx have setup Postfix under the name mail.mydomain.com. I ...
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how to add a domain to receive email from without restarting mta [closed]
So i've been wondering that google apps adds a domain name to accept mail for that domain, but i am sure they would not go about restarting the mta to reload the settings every time. how do they ...
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Postfix working as backend/local MTA
I'm in the process of configuring an email platform and I would like to clear some doubts that I have.
When building this system I have 2 options:
Have PHP doing the connections to my SMTP external ...
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Which is the easiest to configure MTA/POP3/IMAP solution? [closed]
I'm having hard time to configure postfix/dovecot + mysql with virtual domains. Still doesn't work for me 100%.
Which is the easiest to install/configure mail solution for centos 6/64bit ?
I just ...
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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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SMTP smarthost round-robin balancing
Our SMTP provider requires to distribute emails evenly between four different hosts. I understand that the standard way to distribute this kind of load is utilizing DNS round robin feature, but the ...
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Zimbra Alternative Open source application
I'm looking for an open source alternative for zimbra which supports outlook and thunderbird as pop and smtp clients. I don't need collaboration suite.
If anyone can suggest or share their experience ...
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Sendmail configure masquerade domain
i'm really new to sendmail and i'm trying to configure it properly as my server mta.
First of all i'm trying to accomplish some easy tasks as for example masquerade the domain name to show the one i ...
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qmail smtpd uptime less then 1 sec
not sure what is going on here but my qmail install isnt working corretly everything is running except smtpd
output from qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 2874) 608 seconds
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Exim Throttling - how to setup exim to control email deliveries/hour to each ISP?
I couldn't find any resource about how to setup exim throttling.
I needed to control email delivery flow respecting each ISP rate limits and guidelines.
Can anyone point me some references on how to ...
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perl decode exim4 subject in cyrrilic
ive already looked at this article.
Problem is like that, when im sending a letter throug exim4 and subject is with cyrrilic letters ive got something like this in maillog
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How to setup a service like Cloudsmtp or smtp.com?
We provide Email Marketing service through our online Application. We have about 30 customers. And each one has it's own mailling list (5k to 100k emails each).
We have a great application/product ...
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Configure Postfix to only allow outgoing mail from localhost
How do I configure the Postfix mail submission agent to only allow emails to be sent out from a user on localhost , but allow the Postfix mail transfer agent to receive mail from anywhere?
Martin
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Is it possible to check the Apache user's mail?
I'm trying to debug a problem with sending mail on a Red Hat/Apache server. When I send email from the command line using sendmail -t, I get bounce-back emails with messages like this:
The original ...
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Logwatch without MTA/Postfix?
Is it possible to have Logwatch send daily emails without actually installing Postfix? I want to keep my server light and installing an MTA just because of Logwatch seems overkill. Or will I need ...
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Is Postfix the same thing as Sendmail?
I have postfix setup on my server so that I can send outgoing mail using the command-line:
mail -s "Subject" address@example.com
Is this using sendmail or postfix? Is "sendmail" just a software ...
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Can I use DKIM verification without DKIM signing?
I'm using iRedMail and im wondering if I can use only DKIM verification and dont signing emails with DKIM??
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Qmail and setting up a mail forwarder
We have a set of servers that are isolated from our main network, they are an island from our corporate network. At the moment we have to get relay rules added each time we want to send mails from one ...
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postfix concurrency limit with round robin dns
Take the following internal round robin dns setup
mymta.com. IN A 172.31.1.1
mymta.com. IN A 172.31.1.2
mymta.com. IN A 172.31.1.3
mymta.com. IN A 172.31.1.4
mymta.com. IN A 172.31.1.5
mymta.com. IN ...
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Setup Email Server (sendmail + dovecot + squirrelmail)
I am in the process of setting up my very first email server. I can get everything up and running (thanks to apt-get). Manage to tie the users with system users.
Now I am setting up virtual users ...
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Postfix qmgr taking a long time to move things around
The way I understand Postfix's qmgr process to work is that it governs how/if/when to move messages into the active queue for a message to be sent.
For a postfix server that I have under a large ...
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Plesk/qmail - Add original recipient to the mail header (required by Tobit David)
I have a server running Plesk 8 and qmail as the MTA.
Now I switched one domain from multiple POP accounts to only one catchall because the mail app at the customers side (Tobit David) has the ...
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Mail-receiver for windows-server
I'm looking for a MTA for windows, that can simply receive an email, and then invoke a program when it does, whit the email as it's parameters. Simply put: The server receives an email, than calls the ...
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avoid greylisting with postfix
I have an email marketing app, so we have a great volume of mails to send and sometimes a great volume to the same MX. Depending the MX configuration we enter in a greylist and the server told us (in ...
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other high performance mta like powermta [closed]
i am looking for alternatives to powermta. we send out a ton of mails per month and want to move to a professional mta. the alternatives can be in the price range of powermta, it does not have to be ...
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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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how to configure MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) on Red hat linux 4
how to configure MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) on Red hat linux 4
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Can't send emails through sendmail, error occured
I have sendmail MTA and I use pear:Mail class to send mails through remote sendmail server. Everything was fine till yesterday. Probably nothing changes was made in configs.
At maillog I can see:
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Get off greylisting (the reason why our emails bounced back)
I'm system administrator in online store.
We send several emails to our clients after purchase: confirmation, invoice and sale notification to our staff.
Recently we got most of emails bounced back ...
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HOWTO Catch/Redirect all outgoing e-mails from webapp on Windows Server 2003
As suggested by another member, I have split the original post into two. To see the original post, go to ...
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Is there a lightweight MTA for Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop?
I'm writing a Perl script to run as a cron job, and I want to email results & errors to a local account on the laptop. I'd like something that can talk SMTP (do any MTAs not adhere to SMTP?). I ...
