Free and open source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers email
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postfix pipe to script: execvp permissions denied error
I am new to postfix and am trying to pipe a message to a particular email address to a bash script. I am running CentOS 6 in case that matters.
My script has 777 permission (for testing), and when I ...
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Postfix as local relay using virtualhosts
I've for years been running a powerhogging server(win-Firstclass)~200 emailadresses 5 nonprofit domains.
I'm considering phasing it out, but I want to do, affecting the users at the minimum, and over ...
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Checking SPF for outgoing mails
Is there any particular reason why I should not perform SPF checks for outgoing mails?
I was reading on some articles that "you should not perform SPF checks for outgoing mails", why?
I'm doing SPF ...
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Possible spam emails from our server but not from our domains
I encountered something weird with my mail server. For about 3 days now I am noticing that my mail server sending emails that aren't included in my domains. There are from different IPs different mail ...
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Tracing a bounce in postfix logs
I'm trying to send a notification email from Asterisk through Postfix to let users know they have voicemail messages, but the following is showing up in the postfix logs:
Feb 15 15:21:02 myserver ...
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How do I tell Postfix to relax smtpd_sender_restrictions?
If I connect to Postfix on my server with a mail client on port 143 with SSL then mail sent via this connection from a virtual domain passes the smtpd_sender_restrictions and thus enables the filter ...
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using mailbox_command with a virtual relay in postfix
I have set up my postfix to use virtual domains according to this doc:
Postfix virtual MAILBOX example: separate domains, non-UNIX accounts
Now i want to execute a command when mail arrives to a ...
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prevent postfix from delivering mail to users on my box
I thought I had set up postfix to receive email to a catchall address at my domain and run a command as a certain user (on my box).
This is not the case, because if I email 'brian@domain.com' and ...
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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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Postfix : Domain not found (in reply to MAIL FROM command)
Setting up a new server and having a few issues with postfix. Set it up using the same config as another server I have which works fine.
Anyway, when I try to send to a certain domain i keep getting
...
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Issue with Forwarding Email Postfix on Ubuntu Running on Amazon EC2
I'm trying to forward email going to user1@domain.com to user2@gmail.com, I read a bunch of articles and can't seem to get it to work.
I have a local user on the server "userA"
If I have "userA: ...
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Is this an indication of an attack on a mail server?
Feb 10 13:12:52 dd1 postfix/smtp[18237]: connect to go-speedline.com[67.249.162.124]:25: Connection timed out
Feb 10 13:12:52 dd1 postfix/smtp[18237]: 710F5121BDD: ...
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Want to pass all the incoming and outgoing mails through perl on postfix [closed]
I want to pass all the incoming emails and outgoing email through postfix so that i can modify the content as per the requirements of the company. I want to run perl script to modify the content of ...
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Relay access denied, but only for some domain recipients
we have a website with a SMTP server (Postfix) we used for almost a year.
From about yesterday we keep getting the following error when sending emails to hotmail destinations:
Feb 12 10:52:34 ...
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dovecot Mail delivery System returns “unknown user” and client authentication fails
I have dovecot installed on Ubuntu 12.04. I am using Ispconfig3 to manage the virtual users. I have been through the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation process and everything (except the ssl) ...
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GSS-SPNEGO with dovecot and Outlook without Samba
I am trying to configure a dovecot2 IMAP server to inter-operate with a active directory to authenticate users. The users should be able to login without a password on a domain-joined client(Outlook).
...
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Postfix won't reject undeliverable messages
I'm not shure about the wording. Maybe bouncing is the right word.
Problem is, that a local user did send a message to a non-existing domain. Now I expected that postfix will send the message back to ...
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Postfix: Allow SMTP AUTH only from specified IP address ranges
can one implement an IP address based restriction for SMTP AUTH in Postfix?
Scenario:
I'm running a Postfix mail server that receives mails from all over the Internet. But the server doesn't only ...
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Postfix sendmail sets original recipient
I have a postfix + dovecot with a spamassassin doing some content filtering on the postfix side. The problem is that with a recent update the originally available sendmail binary was replaced with the ...
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Postfix smtp redirected and not sending
I'm new to this so please go easy if I don't explain it lugubriously.
I'm admin'ing a debian based KVM/LVM server. It has several VM's on it but two that are the problem. Recently I had to clone VM A ...
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postfix: send DSN to the “Reply-To” address
is there a way to configure the postfix so that he will sends the DSN (Delivery Status Notifications) messages to the "Reply-To" adrees and not to the "from" address.
Background: The "from" address ...
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Postfix - Mail for domain.com loops back to myself
i know there are a few threads about this already but they don't seem to fix my problem.
I've got a Ubuntu Server running Plesk11 with POSTFIX Server as email engine.
My primary domain - lets call ...
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Postfix relay with policy server (IP source match with domain sender)
i want to know how to configure my postfix to relay somes domain by IP source, example :
Sender 10.2.2.0/24 can relay toto.com and titi.com only
Sender 192.168.0.4/32 can relay lulu.com only
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No more emails being received for user from an email sender
I've set up a Postfix installation based on http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/ with modifications where I felt was sensible. Emails are being received fine until some users simply no longer receive ...
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Postfix 2.5.6 on Fedora 10
I have inherited a Fedora 10 machine running Postfix 2.5.6. Everything has been working well (all emails going out) up until about 3 weeks ago. I have been receiving complaints mail not getting ...
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Postfix email address change
Being new to Linux I have followed this tutorial to set up a mail server:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-postfix-on-centos-6
Everything is working correctly however I ...
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Postfix - Cannot set myhostname
I simply fail to set myhostname for postfix. I am running Debian 6.0.
I simply want to call:
postconf -e "myhostname = mail.mydomain.com"
service postfix restart
in order to prevent mails getting ...
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Postfix with Dovecot SASL doesn't authenticate SMTP senders
I have a Postfix/Dovecot setup on my server and I use Webmin/Virtualmin for management. Receiving emails works fine, and users are able to authenticate when accessing via IMAP. I am having problems ...
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Postfix secondary transport destiny
I have a Postfix acting as a AntiSpam Gateway, as the mails are treated they are delivered to my Exchange Server using transport.
Now I want to add another postfix as a backup for the Exchange box, ...
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Is there a reason why DKIM signs every mail twice [closed]
I've configured my postfix/amavisd-new/spam-assassin setup after this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/DKIM. But now the problem is that all mails I send are double signed with two ...
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554 Relay access denied
I set up a mailserver yesterday according to this tutorial: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DebianMailserver3 (tutorial is in german).
Sending emails is working fine, recieving emails from other ...
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Error when restarting postfix
When I have restarting the postfix server I am facing the below error ::
postfix-out/master[1714]: fatal: open lock file pid/master.pid: cannot create file exclusively: Permission denied
I having a ...
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Email server: lost connection while receiving initial server greeting (gmail only)
Past few days users are unable to send mail to gmail, by checking the logs I found the following error message "lost connection with gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com while receiving initial server greeting"
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Delayed email, server side using dovecot/postfix
Alternative title: How to delay a mail queue in postfix for a certain user.
I am planning to build a solution. At first it would be I would create a separate email address for queuing. Use a ...
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Postfix sending emails via multiple broadband lines
I have a site that send out emails from a postfix server. They have multiple broadband lines for load balancing and failover. I want them to be able to send out emails though both lines without the ...
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how to connect to postfix using php pear mail smtp class
I have the following script:
<?php
include('Mail.php');
include('Mail/mime.php');
$recip = "me <me@yahoo.com>";
$strSubject = "test subject";
$strMessage = "test message";
$crlf = "\n";
...
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Postfix split domain setup
I need to have a split domain setup on Postfix. This is possible with Zimbra which uses Postfix as described here:
If delivering to a single secondary mail system, configure a catchall on the ...
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make postfix reject unknown recipients
i'd like my postfix relay to reject mail for unknown recipients.
i have recipients listed in the transports file along with next hop information.
i have a catchall of "* ...
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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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Second mail server for my domain [closed]
I have to setup a mail server because my hosting account don't allow me to send over 250 mail/hour.
I have a HP microserver at home and I want to use it to send the mails.
I configured Virtualmin on ...
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Configure postfix with a threshold for reject_rbl_client
I have my postfix main.cf configured with a number of blacklists:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
...
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How to have Postfix send email to another server if user lookup fails for specific domains
Currently my server acts as a gateway, checks AD for valid email addresses, if the email address exists in exchange it sends over the email, otherwise just rejects (typical)
I need Postfix to send ...
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Can't send mail with TLS enabled
I am receiving the following error when trying to send mail in Thunderbird:
"An error occurred sending mail: Unable to establish a secure link with SMTP server smtp.myserver.com using STARTTLS since ...
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Postfix. User outgoing e-mail restriction
Is there a way to configure Postfix to restrict outgoing e-mail per user so that he/she can ONLY send e-mails to one specific e-mail address?
For example: username@mydomain.com where username is ...
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1answer
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Centos 6 Mail Server / Can't receive e-mails but can send
I recently set up my server using Centos 6, with ISPconfig 3 with httpd, php, mysql, mail server.
I can create e-mail accounts in the control panel, And I successfully can log in to the webmail, I ...
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Maildir++ quota does not count Trash
I have dicovered that standard quota implementation on maildir++ operated by maildrop and courier-imap (installed on ubuntu machine) does not count mails in a .Trash directory.
Users now have almost ...
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Postfix forwarding issue
I've followed flurdy's postfix set up, however I seem to have a problem when it comes to forwarding emails. For example, in my maildb database - I have a table Alias which maps mail to a destination. ...
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Postfix to Gmail and Hotmail
I've set up my Postfix mail server with almost everything that I've been reading about:
DKIM
DomainKeys
Reverse DNS
SPF Records
Everything seems to work (spf=pass, dkim=pass, domainkeys=pass etc). ...
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Postfix with dovecot refuses connection for outgoing mail
I have setup postfix to use dovecot for authenticating smtp requests. This worked well until yesterday. Now my mail client says the server is offline and telnet for all standard ports yields: ...
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Postfix service unavailable error
In my pflogsumm report I noticed suddenly a lot of deferred mails, so I went to check the server through which we relay mails for certain domains and found out that the servers uptime was two days, ...
