sendmail is a popular Unix-based email routing facility that makes use of and supports the transfer and delivery of email via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). sendmail exists both as free and open source software and as a commercial project, called Sendmail.
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How can I route a SMTP message by FROM domain (not To, CC, or BCC)
I'm handling email for many different companies. Each company needs me to route all outbound email through a specific SMTP relay based on From address.
What software configuration or technology ...
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Sendmail dot-addressing
I need to be able to route mail to user.@ to user@. I know I can do it easily with + addressing, but the business requirement is for dot-addressing. The virtusertable file can't handle it - using ...
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Change sendmail's response error for unknown users
I have an old RedHat 4 server with sendmail and I want to replace it with a new Ubuntu one. I need to have both on the same MX record for tests if the new one is working properly.
The users accounts ...
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Can anyone tell me why an e-Mail with an attachment fails from one domain but not another?
I am trying to get e-mail to a customer of ours. From my internal Exchange server, I can send the e-mial successfully to the customer if there is no attachment. I can send the email successfully to ...
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Is SPF record valid?
I am getting "softfail error" for the current spf record what should i do?
This is the original mail i got from my domain.
I added the spf record in my dns.
v=spf1 mx mx:smtp.secureserver.net ...
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Perl script is sending mail very slow via sendmail - one mail every 30 seconds
I have a perl script that sends mail out to a mailing list.
On my old dedicated server, it worked fine, and sent one email per second basically. I recently switched to a new dedicated server, with ...
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Sendmail Configuration for Exchange Server
i need help for sendmail configuration in our linux machine.
Here the things:
I want to send email to outside by using our exchange server as the mail relay.But when sending the email through the ...
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Is there anyway I can sync users / passwords between an Sendmail server and an Active Directory Server
I have a local server running Active Directory, File Server, App Server, for the local network. I also have a remote hosted server (CentOS 6) which runs a small website, and a Sendmail instance which ...
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Drupal Commons using sendmail with Gmail SMTP smart host: Account suspended for abuse
I have a Linux VPS with two Drupal sites, one of them using Drupal Commons. Both installations are told to send mail via sendmail, which in turn is configured to relay mail to the Gmail SMTP server ...
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Sendmail connection timeout
I recently setup a new Debian server,
After installing and setting up sendmail for the first time, I am not able to send e-mail.
Reason : Connection timeout.
Output from the /var/log/mail.log :
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Is there an easy way to convert a qf/df pair of sendmail files back into a “standard” MIME source?
I'd like to be able to take a qf / df file pair for a specific queued message and somehow convert it back to an original mime without the extra info SendMail adds. Is that possible?
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Where to set up MX and SPF records on sendMail or google apps mail server
Here is my senario:
I have domain say myDomain.com is using google app mail server to send and receive emails
I have a sendMail server deployed on my a cloudServer that I am using to send email ...
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Preventing RCPT TO: username enumeration in sendmail on ubuntu
I'm trying to configure sendmail to prevent it from allowing username enumeration through the RCPT TO: command.
I've been googling endlessly and, from what I can see, the best way to achieve this is ...
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Passing at-sign character to procmail in virtusertable
The FAQ tip at http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.29 seems to rely on the fact that the following entry in virtusertable:
@domain.com user+%1
will cause $1 in the .procmailrc config, e.g.:
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Does the server hostname need to match the domain name of the email address you are sending from? Does the hostname need to be verifiable with DNS?
I am trying to diagnose why email won't send from a new RHEL v5.8 server. Sendmail is up and running, but everything is stuck in the queue (confirmed with mailq) with connection timed out errors.
If ...
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MAIL_HUB / LOCAL_RELAY for multiple domains
I'm running a debian server that hosts multiple domains, each of them using google apps. I managed to get sendmail to deliver the emails from domain1.com by using the following in ...
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What is the difference between the sendmail submit queue and standard queue?
I'm confused on the purpose of the sendmail submit queue (by default /var/spool/clientmqueue). I think it's used to store messages when sendmail is ran in mail-submission program mode instead of ...
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How to send massive mail in Window [closed]
I'm looking for a solution that can send massive mail in Windows.
I'm not spaming. My company want to send mail to our user.
I don't want to use third party smtp server(like google mail).
Because ...
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sendmail new mail notification to external address only with the first unread email
I'm running a webserver with a contact form which triggers a php script to sendmail the message to a local account on the server, and I want to be notified on my regular email account when I got new ...
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Modify Sendmail return_path header
I'm hosting a portion of a website for a client, and sending e-mails from their primary domain from a server in my network. Proper SPF records are in place for this, but SPF checking is still ...
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Upgrading sendmail - what's involved?
I need to upgrade a server from Sendmail 8.14.1 to 8.14.5. Im trying to compile a 'milter' and am having some issues with missing libraries.
Anything I should look out for? Can I just do the 'make ...
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Perl sendmail attach log files match date format
I want to send log files matching date format, e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-*.log as attachments in Perl script. In BASH, this can be easily done by:
[ -f $DIR/explog/$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")-*-host1.log ] && ...
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Mail::Sendmail with attachments and embed Perl in Bash script
1> I want to embed below Perl script in BASH script, and the Message should read from a message.txt file. How to realize this?
use Mail::Sendmail;
%mail = ( To => 'you@there.com',
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Does snmpd support SNMP monitoring of SendMail queues?
CentOS 5.7 | SendMail 8.14.x
I've got a CentOS box running snmpd and I'd like to monitor sendmail queues. Is this natively supported by snmpd or will I need to do something special to monitor it?
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Sendmail yields “user unkown” errors even after (wrongly) setting up a catch-all account
I was trying to follow the instructions found here to set up a catch-all account, but still I get the following message for mails sent to non-existent users:
The error that the other server ...
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What does load average statement mean in sendmail log? Current LA? Or Threshold?
In sendmail logs, I'm seeing events like:
Mar 20 08:36:05 foo sendmail_daemon_foo[1234]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 50
Does this mean that the connection was rejected ...
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Sendmail: what does nrcpts=0 mean?
Im attempting to parse some sendmail logs. Im running into lots of apparent emails that have no recipients - or so it would appear.
Mar 18 19:12:35 castor sendmail[543]: q2J2CYIv000543: ...
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Executing shellscript in Sendmail aliases (AIX)
I have my aliases set as ariba: "|/ariba/uat/downstream/Server/bin/redirectemail.sh "
However the script is not getting executed. My echo statements in the shell script are not getting printed in the ...
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How to sendmail via command line piping
I have a cron command that runs a file and I'm trying to setup the output so it emails to me. I use this with 3rd party scripts that I don't want to modify the direct files, so I need to pipe the ...
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How to troubleshoot PHP mail problems
I'm building a PHP server backup script that sends me an email if errors occur. Now I have this code:
if (mail("me@mydomain.com", "ERRRORRSSSS", "hello:)")) {
echo("<p>Message ...
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Mutt send email with attachment to personal and corporate email address
[Mutt | CentOS 5.1] I have set up Mutt on CentOS and configured /etc/Muttrc and ~/.muttrc files.
I can send email out without attachments, command:
echo $Message | mutt -s "WARNING $Subject" ...
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sendmail is using return-path instead of from address
I have a customer that is complaining about emails marked as spam.
I'm looking at the header. It shows the correct From: reg@company.com
However, it doesn't like the return-path.
Return-Path: ...
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Sendmail on a virtualized host with multiple domains?
I have a server on which I host multiple domains. I recently installed a redmine installation underneath one of those domains. I set up the installation to send e-mails through sendmail. The e-mails ...
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Does SendMail Support Outbound TLS Encryption WITHOUT additions to the sendmail.mc file?
CentOS 5.x
Hi,
Does SendMail support opportunistic TLS "out of the box"?
I'm used to having to explicitly add the following blurb to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS’, `LOGIN ...
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mailq -Ac doesn't match number of files in clientmqueue
My clientmqueue folder contains almost twice as many mails as what mailq -Ac shows as enqueued messages in that folder. When I look at them individually, it looks like the headers and the contents ...
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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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How do I configure sendmail to erase the local copy in /var/mail/username after forwarding (.forward)
I am forwarding emails, via '.forward', through procmail to a PHP script for one of my system users. Once processed the mail message is no longer needed. How can I configure sendmail to delete email ...
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Can Sendmail Mail Server Listen on Multiple Ports?
Currently I have a dedicated mail-relay PS that I need to listen on multiple ports, 25 and 80. I know 80 is http, but because of the applications this is being used for it needs to be able to use port ...
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Sendmail takes an age in Ubuntu
I have set-up sendmail on my Ubuntu server but it takes ages to send an email.
It doesn't actually sent the email but it takes about 20 seconds.
Try it here: http://genyx.co.uk/form/index.php
You ...
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Sendmail greatly increases value of Total DISK WRITE
Sendmail is installed on the server.
It sends an average of 6 emails at 3K per second and writes 18 files in /var/spool/mqueue-client.
Because of this high disk writes iotop: Total DISK WRITE: ...
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How can I configure sendmail (or another mail server) to accept outbound mail, but to not send it out?
Is it possible to configure sendmail to accept all outbound email but to not send it out? Either it can just log them to be read later, or better yet, if it can be configured to send ALL outbound mail ...
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configure standard sendmail install to accept outside connections and forward mail to gmail account
I want to have some mail accounts on my domain (contact, webaster) redirected to my gmail account.
In order to do this I installed sendmail.
Default install (apt-get install sendmail on ubuntu ...
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Which reason types of bounced emails exist?
I need to get reason statistics for all bounced emails from mail.log.
Which reason types exist?
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What command can I use to search sendmail logs for ALL message details involving a specific recipient.
CENTOS 5.x | Sendmail
Occasionally I need to search through sendmail delivery logs to find out what happened to a missing message. This usually involves two (or more) steps:
STEP 1: Search ...
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“Service unavailable” error in sendmail under linux
My sendmail server occasionally fails at delivering an email. I get a Service unavailable error:
Feb 7 23:45:01 ip-10-101-xx-xx sm-mta[3838]: q17Nj0RQ003836: to=<xxxx@xxx.edu>, ...
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PHP can not send email using mail() - Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line or via the -t option
I installed postfix and when trying to send mail, I get the followig error:-
fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line or via the -t option
The code I used to send mail is ...
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Telling sendmail to auth?
I've been sitting here for a few hours now attempting to get sendmail to send the emails through an external SMTP server. I've gotten very close, but now I'm completely stuck. It seems that sendmail ...
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After reading lots of articles on sendmail relay tls port 587 gmail, still having problems
Environment is Amazon EC2, running Amazon Linux (Centos-like) with sendmail 8.14.4 and Cyrus sasl 2.1.23. The machine has an elastic IP address that is the target of a domain name, and reverse DNS is ...
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Secure LDAP Alias Lookup through Sendmail
I'm trying to configure sendmail to use an LDAP lookup as an alias table.
I have this line in my config:
Kldapfullname ldap -k"uid=%s" -v"mail" -h"my-ldap-server"
I've been using that for a long ...
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Configure sendmail to only send to local domain
I would like to know how to configure sendmail to only send emails to one domain.
I have a development server that might have customer email addresses in the database as the data is copied from the ...
