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How should I test Clam Anti-Virus?

I have setup a new email server and now I need to test that Clam Antivirus is scanning messages correctly. How should I do this in a safe and controlled way?
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Postfixadmin - alias and e-mail account

I've installed dovecot, postfix and postfixadmin. Everything is OK, but I have some issues with sending email. I would like to have something similar what I had on server with DirectAdmin. For ...
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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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Authentication issue with mail server

I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixCompleteVirtualMailSystemHowto to setup a smtp and imap server on my local network. But when i try to login with thunderbird ...
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Cant Login to both SMTP and IMAP (local server)

I set up a SMTP mail server with IMAP alongside on my local machine running at 192.168.1.90. Following this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixCompleteVirtualMailSystemHowto I now have ...
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postfix won't deliver

I have been setting up an email server based on this tutorial on ubuntu 12.04 with MySQL virtualuser. After having problems with postgray I'm again in that situation that I don't know where should I ...
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mail server on ubuntu can't recive mails

I have been setting up a mail server on ubuntu 12.04 following this tutorial. Setting up mailboxes in postfixadmin and sending email from this addresses is working, but sending email to my servers ...
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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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Ubuntu Mail Server Configuration on EC2 and Login in using Client like Outlook

I have configured postfix, courier on EC2 which is having Ubuntu 12. The necessary port's are opened SMTP, IMAP, POP3. Installed and configured postfixadmin. Added domain and some mail boxes. I am ...
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Is there a way to pause mail delivery in Postfix (accumulate in queue)?

When using combination of Postfix/Dovecot, is there a way to tell smtp server (Postfix) not to store mails on disk but hold/add them to queue until "maintenance finished"? Useful for disk upgrades, ...
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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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unable to change my user name into postfix [closed]

I have configured my main.cf into postfix, It is sending mail into my gmail account, It is sending mail from abcd@gmail.com, Now I want that the mail should be sent from xyza@gmail.com or ...
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Postfix/Dovecot support multiple domains

I have a server running Postfix/Dovecot with a MySQL back-end which is configured to use the domain name 'olddomain.com'. I am migrating everything to use another domain 'newdomain.com' and ...
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Postfixadmin Invalid Query

This is my first time running a postfixadmin, so in my setup.php, I'm getting this error DEBUG INFORMATION: Invalid query: Unknown column 'create_date' in 'mailbox' I'm running it with MySQL. So ...
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postfix incoming emails [closed]

Where do i find incoming emails?, i mean in their txt format, i have search in /var/spool/postix/incoming but the folder is always empty. ubuntu 10.04.4 thanks
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SMTP authentication failure + PAM-MySQL cannot authenticate

I am building a mail server using Postfix, and set up the authentication to check against a database set-up using Postfixadmin. I can authenticate via Courier IMAP okay, as it can authenticate ...
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Virtual mailboxes with Postfixadmin + Courier IMAP - Expected mail directories not being generated

I have set-up a mail server with Postfix, and I am currently in the process of creating virtual mailboxes with the help of Postfixadmin. I am using Courier to handle IMAP authentications, and I am ...
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Postfix: what exactly are alias domains?

I thought I understood "Alias domains" as that it's simply an alias for another domain! So when I set up a mailbox like "info@main.com", and add "alias.com" as a domain alias for "main.com" the ...
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Postfix, read/process email content

Here's a use case for my application. All incoming emails to different email addresses have to be processed by reading the content of email messages, along with the information such as: from email ...
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How to setup email server in ubuntu 12.04LTS(debian 7 wheezy/sid) running on linode vps

I am working on email server, since i tried several times to create email server on ubuntu12.04LTS with postfix + dovecote + postfixadmin + courier + clamav + spamassassin. But everytime i install ...
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Postfix route unknown users (ONLY!) to default address

I use postfix and would like to route all emails which are NOT configured to got to a fallback address. Is that possible? So e.g. john@email.com -> configured in virtual file and is read by user ...
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Dovecot not working pop3 with postfix

$ telnet localhost pop3 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused $ netstat -l tcp 0 0 *:www : LISTEN tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:ipp : LISTEN ...
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Trasnferring Postfix & PostfixAdmin to a new server

I have a perfectly working installation of Postfix & PostfixAdmin on a server which I now need to move to a new server. I have thus installed Postfix+Dovecot+SASL and have configured it as on my ...
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How to prevent sending vacation autoreply when a mail is sent to an alias in postfix?

I have an alias which has 20 mails accounts. So when a mail is sent to this alias, everyone receives it. But, when I set a vacation on one of those 20 mail accounts, the autoreply is sent as well. I ...
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Why did postfix deliver a bounce notification to a local spool file, when delivery to this user has been disabled?

My postfix configuration allows mail via several local_recipient_maps. However, delivery to "proxy:unix:passwd.byname" is specifically disabled. This normally prevents delivery to local unix users: $ ...
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mail delivered then removed in postfix

I just installed and configured Postfix/Dovecont + Mysql + PostfixAdmin. When I try to send email from e.g. gmail.com it's delivered but I cannot see it in mail folder. Seems to be deleted. Here is my ...
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Postfix/dovecot can't recieve mail

I am configuring postfix and dovecot on my server, but for some reason I can't receive mails. I've followed these instructions for configuring the mailserver. I've tested with pingability.com that ...
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Postfixadmin doesnt see any mailbox or alias but mailboxes and aliases are in database

Im migrating old mail server to iRedMail. After recreating mailboxes, admin, domains etc... in database on new iRedMail server I logged into postfixadmin and there was no mailbox or aliases ... All ...
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Blacklisting Specific From and To with Postfix

I have a scenario where I need to blacklist emails from one email to one of our local emails. Is blocking this specific scenario possible in postfix? For example, emails from person@fromaddress.com ...
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SASL + postfixadmin - SMTP authentication with hashed password

I'm trying to set up the mail server. I have problem with my SMTP authentication using sasl. I'm using postfixadmin to create my mailboxes, the password is in some kind of md5, postfixadmin ...
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Postfix - mysql authentification failed

I'm playing with postfix configuration for the first time. I'm trying to set up the postfix user authentication through MySQL (I use the standard configuration with postfixadmin, courier, etc.) The ...
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Postfix rejects sender address

On my LAN are two servers: mail.example.com and alpha.example.com. A script on alpha.example.com sends an email to joe@example.com. Sendmail MTA on alpha.example.com sends this email to ...
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Can I Seperate Postfix Mail Logs Into Seperate Virtul Host Logs?

My server is currently hosting 8 separate websites (and growing) of which four are actively sending email throughout the day and some bulk (opt-in) lists at night. I just completed setting up PTR, ...
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I just painted myself into a corner with Exim/Dovecot/Spamassassin/Postfixadmin/etc/etc/etc

I'm a sysadmin for a smallish ISP, and we have our own mail server (qmail, of all the godforsaken things) that serves mail for about 300 domains and 5000 users in total. It's running out of disk ...
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postfixadmin can add only 10 virtual mailbox?

I setup successfully my mail-server using postfix + postfixadmin + mysql + cyrus + courier + squirrelmail Now I'm happy with it ! the last thing made me said is that I was limited to add virtual ...