Free and open source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers email
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How to send mail by primary IP?
In a Debian server, I added a second IP by the following configuration in /etc/network/interfaces
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 1.1.1.1
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1answer
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Postfix (MySQL): Encrypted passwords does not work
Update: I've tried to insert the password in plain text in the DB. That works, and I'm now able to send mail as well. I tried setting up the whole thing (using the guide mentioned) again, but with the ...
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1answer
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Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin - can't send/receive mail
I am setting up a mail server: Dovecot and Postfix with MySQL support and Postfixadmin. Spend literally all day trying to figure it out, but I'm still unable to neither send nor receive any emails.
...
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1answer
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Connection Time out Postfix Email forwarding
I have a situation when forwarding from postfix mail server to yahoo,gmail,aol,icloud and many others forwarded email delivery to major ESP stopped at once though it works for my company email and the ...
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1answer
33 views
Best resources for mail server administration
What are the best (updated) resources / manuals for sysadmins to learn how to manage a mail server (basically Postfix on linux)?
I'm talking about advanced topics such as mail server replication, ...
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1answer
702 views
How to set Return-Path header of postfix bounced messages
i have an debian6 with postfix and dovecot. A customer has an Exchange wich connects with an POP3 Connector onto some mailboxes. The postfix relays messages for the exchange server. Bounced messages ...
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2answers
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Postfix/Dovecot permissions on new files in a mailbox
According to this article:
When creating new files inside a mailbox, Dovecot copies the
read/write permissions from the mailbox's directory.
I'm not seeing this. Here is what I'm seeing:
...
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1answer
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Postfix only allow authenticated users
I have postfix installed and configured so that only authenticated user can relay. If I test it with telnet this seems to work
root@mx3:/var/log# telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
...
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1answer
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How to configure postfix to throw away all email to one domain and relay all other email?
I need to set up postfix in a development/test environment to filter e-mails so we don't spam our customers. In our test environments we scrub all our user data so that e-mail addresses are changed to ...
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1answer
35 views
How to forward to dynamically determined addresses with Postfix?
Each message to a local user must go to an address that is obtained by running an external command. That command will look at the local address tag, make API calls to several processes, and then ...
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1answer
25 views
How to process incoming email sent to a catchall address (and a few valid email addresses)
I need to build a web application where people can send an email to custom email addresses (like - 1week@example.com, or 2days@example.com) and the email address '1week' and '2days' is used to perform ...
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Zentyal 3.0: Ubuntu 12.04 updated: gmail smtp sending spam
as of now I have stopped the zentyal mail service
I only have one user setup
as soon as I start it the service backup and run mailq from any system user it is full and keeps trying to send emails as ...
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1answer
26 views
Postfix piping to a ruby script. Is a new ruby process created for each email?
I'm writing a ruby script to process incoming email for a specific email address using a transport.
Postfix transport table
me@example.com ruby-script
Postfix master file
ruby-script unix - ...
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2answers
17 views
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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1answer
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IMAP Folders with Ubuntu 12.04 mail server: postfix-courier-ssltls-spamassassin-clamav-amavis
I setup this mail server a few days ago according to this tutorial, worked fantastic:
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3answers
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Dovecot with Postfix on Ubuntu: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: No such file or directory
I can't seem to get dovecot to start.
My log keeps showing this stuff:
connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Mar 1 17:15:01 mac postfix/smtpd[32526]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client ...
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0answers
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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.
...
1
vote
2answers
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Postfix not working
A while ago I installed the postfix mail server on my ubuntu 10.04 VPS.
At the time it was working good but now it's just stopped working. I was trying to enable SASL authentification and somewhere it ...
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1answer
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postfix, TLS and rapidssl - “verify error:num=19:unable to get local issuer certificate”
I have a certificate from rapidssl. I run this command:
openssl s_client -showcerts -connect smtp.server.com:465
I get this error:
verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
...
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0answers
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My email server has been hacked. Postfix sending SPAM [duplicate]
My server has been hacked. Currently I host 10 sites in my serverand have Visrtualmin installed. All my emails are relayed to Critsend and yesterday I got an email from leaseweb telling me my IP has ...
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0answers
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Forward copy of mail to different domain
Is it possible in post-fix to forward an Mail send from particular user From: abc@example.com TO:anyuser@ourcompany.com should forward copy of email to other user at external domain ...
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1answer
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How can I configure Postfix to ignore relayhost when forwarding mail?
How can I configure Postfix to ignore relayhost when forwarding mail?
I currently use the relayhost to send all outgoing email via an external SMTP service :
# /etc/postfix/main.cf
relayhost = ...
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1answer
24 views
Postfix deliver to inhouse Exchange never arrives
When I send a message though postfix to clients who have an inhouse exchange server the message never arrives. The strangest thing is it is being delivered as postfix responds with a 250 queued for ...
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0answers
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postfix, dovecot, dovecot-sasl, ldap, and static UIDs for NFS-shared email storage
I'm trying to build a Ubuntu 12.04 mail server as such.
Must:
Auth against an existing Open-LDAP server.
Storage in Maildirs on an existing NFS server, everything owned by 8:8 (mail:mail).
Auth is ...
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4answers
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How to route email to a script
What I'd like to do is set up an address like something@myhost.com which will take whatever email it gets and run the full message as STDIN into a shell script. I can't seem to get this working ...
3
votes
3answers
178 views
Send spam mail to a special folder using postfix
I have a postfix server running amavis and SpamAssassin to help filter spam. Messages that are detected as spam look like this when delivered into the user's Maildir:
From tom@tom-mint Fri Mar 15 ...
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2answers
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Configuring Postfix, Spamassassin and Procmail to put spam in a dedicated folder
I'm not sure if SF is the good place for that, so sorry if it's not the case.
I'm administrating a Debian server for our company's emails and I'm trying to have the emails flagged as spam by ...
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1answer
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Dovecot Forward Spam
I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge on how this idea can be done. It's not a requirement but more of an idea I came up with that I don't know how to word my google searches to find out if it's ...
0
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3answers
688 views
why is mailgraph not updating?
I just installed mailgraph on a Linux Ubuntu 10.04 box monitoring Postifix.
Everything seems to be working fine, but the graphs are not always
updating. When I refresh the web page or close the ...
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votes
1answer
41 views
Postfix does not work over remote connections
I am attempting to set up an email server on a VPS running Debian Squeeze. I've setup Postfix according to the instructions at here.
Everything seems to work fine if I connect to the server from ...
14
votes
4answers
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How to correct Postfix' 'Relay Access Denied'?
This morning, in order to correct a problem with a name mismatch in the security certificate, I followed the recommended steps from How to fix mail server SSL?, but now, when attempting to send an ...
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0answers
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use alias sender's name in sending email via postfix using gmail smtp
i've have a testing email server at my home and the postfix email smtp sever is config-ed using gmail smtp, i've added several lines in main.cf and add a sasl_passwd file
relayhost = ...
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0answers
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Change Posftix, from name
I'm setting up postfix to relay email through Gmail and have it working, but when an email is sent, the from name comes across as "root". I want to set it up so it comes across as "Test User". How ...
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1answer
28 views
Postfix rate limiting entire server
I have searched around for a good answer to my question but have yet to find one.
I deal with lots of Linux servers that send out newsletters. These servers are normally located at an office with a ...
0
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1answer
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Postfix Plugins for Munin not working
I have a fresh munin (system monitor) installation on a FreeBSD 9.1 machine up and
running fine. Now I wanted to include our Postfix server on the same
machine in munin, so I tried to run the standard ...
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1answer
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CentOS/Postfix cannot receive or send emails to external domains
I run CentOS 6 server on Windows Azure cloud. Plesk 11 installed. And the problem is that I cant use webmail service since it doesn't send or receive emails. Port 25 looks closed from MXTools
Things ...
2
votes
2answers
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How to configure postfix to resend soft bounces after X hours on Debian
This is a complete noob question for postfix, but I have to administer a live installation, and in need of reconfiguring the resend rate.
Help would be appreciated.
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2answers
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SPF, DKIM, PTR & friends Passed, but postfix mail goes into spam How to Fix it? [duplicate]
I recently setup an email server with static IP address, (Ubuntu 12.04 & Postfix); Everyting looks OK, I did te test@allaboutspam.com test and everything passes in green (except for BATV format ...
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1answer
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Postfix Temporary lookup failure
I am trying to set up postfix, but I get a "Temporary lookup failure" error
main.cf:
inet_protocols = ipv4
inet_interfaces = all
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
...
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1answer
725 views
How to change “sender:” field in the header of Logwatch emails
I changed MailFrom="" in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
That altered "From:" in the headers, but "Sender:" is still "root@ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.domain"
EC2 Linux AMI beta,
Postfix is the ...
1
vote
1answer
114 views
Zimbra outgoing email forwarding/ redirecting from internal to external domain
How can I automatically forward outgoing emails to a different domain?
As an example, a user sends an email to 1234564@fax.mydomain.com and I want the exact email forwarded outside mydomain.com to ...
0
votes
2answers
47 views
Replicate Gmail user+something@gmail.com functionality using Exchange 2010 and/or Postfix
With gmail it's possible to put a + after your username followed by an identifier. See here for an example. Is it possible to replicate this functionality with Exchange?
We have a ...
1
vote
1answer
574 views
Rewrite (or add) “Sender: ” header when MAIL FROM is not the authenticated user
I need to get Postfix to inspect the MAIL FROM of the envelope and determine whether it matches the authenticated user of the session.
If it does not, it should then add or update the "Sender: " ...
0
votes
1answer
37 views
Postfix conditional rules base on sending address
Email configuration on dev server: At the moment I have postfix configured to route all emails sent to itself. So if you try to send and email to any address say gareth@example.com it won't be ...
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votes
4answers
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Postfix configuration [Fail to receive incoming emails from internet]
I'm trying to set up a simple mail service in my Ubuntu server, but I'm having the most difficult time setting it up correctly.
I have followed the steps in Ubuntu's Postfix guide but I'm still ...
2
votes
1answer
35 views
Migrated mbox to Maildir, how to avoid mail client from re-downloading emails?
We have moved emails in a postfix server from huge mbox files to MailDir, but when trying out one Outlook client, found that it redownloads all mail as duplicate unread messages.
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0answers
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Piping Wildcard Email to Scripts [duplicate]
I am working on a server with this stack...
Ubuntu 12.0.4
Posfix
Apache
MySQL
ProFTPd
BIND DNS
I need to figure out how I can Pipe email to a PHP script.
Let's say I make a domain testing.com and ...
1
vote
1answer
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Postfix no longer accepts emails to a single domain
I have had a postfix mail server up for quite a long time, running on Ubuntu Server x86_64. It is managing emails for multiple domain names. However, it has decided, seemingly arbitrarily, to stop ...
1
vote
2answers
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postfix warning - unused parameter: start_tls= yes
I am a front-end developer and am managing my own linux server for the first time. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and have an SSL certificate. Using Google apps mail as my mailserver, and SendGrid to ...
1
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3answers
777 views
Configure postfix to lookup MX records on remote dns for local delivery
Is there any way to configure Postfix in the way that it would check mx record before local delivery.
For example - there is hosting platform, client added google.com domain. From now on he is able ...
