Popular MTA (Mail Transport Agent).
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Do you use postfix or qmail and why
I am setting up a server and I have the choice of installing qmail or postfix. Can someone help me make the right choice.
Thing I like to see covered are:
- Performance
- Ease of setup
- ...
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How did this email bypass my SPF settings?
I received a phishing email this morning that appeared to come from one of my addresses to itself.
Looking at the headers, I found something interesting.
DomainKey-Status: no signature
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Is someone using my mail?
I found a whole bunch of this in my maillog (after my site went down from excessive resource usage):
Dec 3 05:24:23 mysite qmail-queue-handlers[24524]: from=anonymous@mysite.com
Dec 3 05:24:23 ...
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Is qmail needed if there are not email accounts?
I've inherited a server with some pages running. The person who worked on it has gone and there is no way to contact him. Recently I had some problems with the qmail service on this server (created a ...
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Replacement for qmail?
Actually, it's not that I need a replacement for qmail, I already found one: Postfix. I need a replacement for the rest of the email stack, that works well with Postfix. My current setup constists of ...
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Server Memory Usage VERY high on new linux dedi box - How to find the issue?
I have recently aquired a dedicated server running CentOS and Plesk for my applications.
These scripts were running on a 1.5GB ram VPS running CentOS and CPanel and worked very well.
Now they are ...
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How might I stop BACKSCATTER using Qmail?
New to ServerFault , please pardon if my details are too much
Linux box acting as Virtual Host for domain hosting. Runs CentOs.
Runs Parallels Plesk 9.x
Regardless of the following, the SPAM ...
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Changing qmail's failure notice message
I want to edit the message that gets sent by qmail via the postmaster account everytime a mail can't be delivered.
Here's the original message:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at xxxx.com.
I'm ...
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qmail responds 502 unimplemented on STARTTLS
I am trying to send mail with php using the PEAR Mail_queue package. It should be working, and it appeared to work twice, but for some reason I keep getting the following error response from qmail:
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Linux mail server just for forwarding mail
We are building a service of which one part will be forwarding mail; so there will be lots of user@domain.com "accounts" but these will only be forwarded - we will not have any actual mailboxes or ...
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I need to know when qmail is not running
Obviously I can't send myself an email to tell myself that qmail is not working... at least not using qmail. How would you inform yourself about the fact, that qmail is not running?
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how to track down a spamming script?
My server sent 83,000 spam emails last night, I've been trying to track down the culprit, but I'm not sure how to find out exactly.
in the logs the "from" address is always something like @#!
the ...
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How can I get a notification from my server if the mail queue stops
I am using QMail with Plesk 10 on an Apache server.
Occasionally the mail queue stops processing emails - this most recently happenend when an email account got hacked and started sending hundreds of ...
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Configure Qmail to pick up source IP depending on the source domain
How to configure Qmail such that for outgoing mails it will automatically set the source IP depending on the domain rather than using the default IP of the server.
I think there is configuration in ...
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How can I automatically inject an email signature server-side with qmail or other MTA?
We have a nice corporate email signature (NOT a huge disclaimer document, just a consistent 4-line email signature) that we have configured our email clients to use. It is small, tasteful, and ...
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Apache memory consumption
I am currently having very severe problems with my Linux CentOS dedicated server. For some peculiar reason, all of my memory is being consumed by apache and resultantly, my qmail process is crashing.
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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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How can I set Qmail to relay all mail to one address
I'm new to qmail it's setup and working like it should. I need to set it to do something a bit different.
I need it to take all mail that would be incoming to it and relay all of that to one address ...
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What do these messages in the Qmail maillog indicate?
There seems to be an endless supply of messages in the Qmail maillog for a single address. Can anyone shed some light on why this might be and whether it is a problem? To me it looks like either ...
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How to export qmail email accounts
I want to migrate a domain to another server. I am using qmail on both servers. Is there a way I could export all the email accounts settings (login, password, redirections, mailing lists, etc, not ...
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Linux/Unix MTA with the smartest queue?
I am looking for an MTA that will allow me (a script, really) to proactively manage its send queue in response to status codes returned by the remote servers I am delivering to.
Basically, for each ...
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Forward incoming mail to two servers
We have several domains with MX records pointing at a gateway running Qmail that we have at the edge of the network, which in turn forwards it to one of several internal mail servers based on ...
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Qmail does not forward mail to a specific domain
I have a dedicated hosting account with GoDaddy.com. I've pointed my domain's email to work with Google apps.
The server has qmail running and it forwards email to all domains just fine except for ...
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qmail log ALL outgoing mails
I have Plesk 11 and it's working with qmail I think.
One of my customers have extrem high outgoing mail traffic.
I want to log all his outgoing mails.
How can I configure qmail to log all mails in ...
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QMAIL Bounceback to original sender?
my QMAIL Server sends all bouncebacks and undelivered message notifications to anonymous@domain.com and not the original sender. Is there any way to configure Qmail so that the sender receives the ...
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Qmail in Plesk is suddenly unable to send any message
I have a weird problem on Plesk 8.6 (CentOS 5.7).
After a server restart, no mail gets delivered thru qmail. Neither to the local mailboxes nor to external addresses. All mail gets accepted, and no ...
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limit emails sent at once in qmail
I'm having an issue whereas my mail server is getting clogged with emails supposedly because qmail is trying to send too many messages at once. The emails are not spam. They are notifications sent ...
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Qmail: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name
I've added some email accounts with the help of Plesk. The strange thing is I can't receive any emails. The mail service is active. And sending mails works without any problems.
The mailer-daemon ...
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Copying email with qmail and Plesk
I need to keep a copy of all outgoing and incoming email (for a single domain if possible) using qmail or Plesk. I can't recompile qmail, so qmailtap is out of the question, as is setting QUEUE_EXTRA ...
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how to block network level mail spammer?
Here is the packet capture of how the attacker is coming to my server and generating Huge amount of spam, i am not able to block it by any means.
220 mta1497.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtpProxy ...
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QMAIL - Do not handle emails for my domain
How can I stop q-mail from handling my domain specific emails?
For example, I have a blog installed on my server and it uses PHP to make use of the mail() function to send out emails.
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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Limit attachment size
I have qmail server and authetication on Active Directory. All clients use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as default mail client. A have one central location and several remote location wich are connected ...
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What is the best way to selectively delete messages from a Qmail queue?
We're trying to delete 80% or 90% of the emails from a ~200k message queue. Ideally, we would be able to select the messages using regex.
I can see the messages in the queue folder, but just ...
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Qmail Patching Makes me Nervous
We have a system running CentOS 5 with Plesk 8.6 and Qmail running. Our primary domain is hosted through Media Temple. When Plesk and Qmail are hosted on a single Dedicated Virtual server, it reads ...
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How can I configure qmail to send using a different IP per domain?
I would like to configure qmail to send email for certain domains using specific IPs for the outbound traffic. All other domains could continue to use the system's primary IP as usual. Is this ...
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Why qmail queue is full of files?
Yesterday my server stopped working properly. After some digging, I found that the problem is that /dev/sda1 run out of inodes. Now I'm looking for some files to delete and I've found that at the ...
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CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)
A friend of mine just told me that he can't send mails to accounts on one of my servers via the SMTP server provided by his ISP.
The error message in the bounce he gets reads:
Hi. This is the ...
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Create a mailbox in qmail, then forward all incoming message to Gmail
I needed to let PHP send mails from my webserver to my web app users. So I installed qmail on my Debian server:
sudo apt-get install qmail
I also updated files in /etc/qmail specifing my domain ...
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qmail, recover email from the mess folder
The server has Plesk 10 installed. It uses qmail as the email service. After a migration from Linux based system to Windows based system, qmail is broken. It can send email fine but can't receive any ...
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Qmail with AUTH CRAM-MD5
My Qmail install on Centos5 has CRAM-MD5 installed.
I want to use this to an authenticated SMTP relay.
Where do I specify the username and password details for QMail?
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Changing qmail's outgoing IP
QMail uses the server's default IP as its outgoing IP. How do I change the IP to something else?
I tried the instructions in the following links but they don't work in my case.
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OTRS - configure smtp to add a custom sendgrid header?
I'd like to be able to configure OTRS ticket system to send email through sendgrid but I also want to add some configuration parameters through the X-SMTPAPI sendgrid header.
There's no obvious ...
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vqadmin “invalid language file” with google chrome
We have been running our qmail setup for awhile with no issues. One of our admins has moved to Google Chrome as his main browser and we have noticed something odd. No matter what, when he loads the ...
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qmail-smtpd TCP file in CentOS with “Parallels Plesk”
Related to this questions answer:
I have found the /var/qmail/users/cdb file on my installation, but can't find the qmail-smtpd/tcp file or the tcprules command to create or modify the cdb. I was ...
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setup qmail, but messages are in spam folder when i test with gmail
I've just setup djbdns and qmail on a debian lenny server. I test sending to my gmail account with qmail-inject, the mail gets there but is in the spam folder. How can I fix this?
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Local only email with qmail
I'm using CentOS with a "Parallels Plesk" installation, a default qmail configuration and want to restrict email traffic to my virtual domain (no incoming/outgoing mail from/to any external domain). ...
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Limit domains that PHP can send mail to
Is it possible to configure PHP to only send emails created using mail() to a specific list of whitelisted domains? E.g. An email to johndoe@domain1.com is sent because domain1.com is on the ...
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Install two MTAs on Gentoo
Im migrating my Qmail/Vpopmail Install to MySQL/Postfix and want to test Postfix on different Ports than the current qmail Installation and bit by bit merge the config and Database - is there any way ...
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Plesk: Enable mail.domain.tld as Incoming/Outgoing Mail-Server
I'm not quite sure, if it is possible to change the default mail-server aliases for Incoming/Outgoing mail on Plesk 10.4 ?
By default, Plesk Panel uses imap.domain.tld / pop.domain.tld and ...
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Migrating from qmail/courier to postfix/dovecot
I was wondering if it was at all possible to take mail messages from an old vpopmail Maildir and put them into a new dovecot Maildir without editing settings in the new installation (as the new system ...
