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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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 ...
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Sendmail: external message to “username” goes to root only
I use Sendmail and Dovecot.
I'm trying to send mail from external mail accounts to a username@domain.com on my dedicated server. The user is added with password and its /home/user directory. But only ...
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sendmail problems
I am using sendmail to send emails through a PHP script. The emails go fine except for a few domains for which, when I run the command
sendmail -q -v, it gives the following error:
Deferred: ...
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apache , php , sendmail not working
I am using apache, php and sendmail. I can send mail from command line with sendmail.
However, in php file, mail function is not working.
Then, I run that php email test file from command line. It ...
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Configure Sendmail to require valid SPF checks before accepting/relaying mail
We have an inbound email service that is very restrictive on who is allowed to send through our Sendmail gateways. The restrictions are generally controlled through the access file by marking ...
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Nagios checks for mulitple sendmail instance's mail queues
Is there an available perl script or any script for checking the mail queues of each instance of sendmail?
So that we can use that on nagios nrpe, since the mailq command is only designed for one ...
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Sendmail does not allow some Asterisk voicemail notifications to be sent
I have a large asterisk/freepbx installation where some users are unable to leave a voicemail, and have the voicemail sent via email to the callee. In maillog, here's what I see:
maillog:Jan 18 ...
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Php mail() is not working but sendmail is
I have an Amazon EC2 instance running with RedHat/Linux. My problem is with the PHP mail() function which is not working although I can send mail with sendmail from command line.
I run this command.
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sendmail queues to /var/spool/clientmqueue and never sends
This is a continuation of my previous question here. The troubleshooting has gotten me a little further, and I think I'm facing a new set of problems now. Originally, I found out that sendmail ...
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Setting the default 'From' message header in sendmail without using the -f or -F options
I want sendmail to take all outgoing messages from user32 to be from "John Smith" with email address "jsmith_rocks@hotmail.com". How can I go about that without using the -f and -F sendmail options ...
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Sendmail is not sending
I have a sendmail server on a Solaris 10 server that's stopped working. I can't seem to find anything about failed messages in /var/adm/sendmail. Here's what I'm seeing when I try to debug:
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Connection refused. Why can't I send email from one server but I can from another?
I'm trying to send email from PHP using mail(). I have complete access to both servers. No unusual iptables rules on either (nothing blocking a default install of sendmail)
I installed sendmail on ...
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Sending e-mail from sendmail with headers
I am trying to send an e-mail with sendmail, but I need to specify some headers (From, Content-Type, Subject). Here is the command I am currently running:
echo "Content-Type: text/plain\r\nFrom: ...
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Is there a way to completely disable outbound opportunistic TLS support in SendMail?
CentOS 5.x
SendMail 8.14.4
An overzealous network security feature is causing TLS negotiations to fail when my Sendmail server tries to talk to external hosts. This is causing sendmail to constantly ...
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sendmail generate new sendmail.cf
I have changed hostname on my Ubuntu 8.04 server but sendmail is still sending emails showing old hostname in the email headers 'From' field.
I have tried running command to re-generate my ...
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Google Apps Mail & sendmail on web server [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Outgoing mail from linux not being delivered
I'm looking into simplifying my web server setup and migrating from a Verio MPS dedicated machine to a rackspace cloud ...
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How to solve authentication error in sendmail relay through gmail [closed]
I followed the steps in http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/gmail.html to setup gmail in send mail. But when I try to send mail I got the authentication failure message.
—– Transcript of session ...
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Outgoing mail from linux not being delivered
I can't seem to send mail through my php scripts or through the linux console on my Centos 5.5 LAMP server, when the email is addressed to go to a domain that is hosted by my box.
I think it is ...
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sendmail rewrite rules in separate file
Is there any way to move Rewrite Roules out of sendmail.cf file? On one side sendmail documentation recommends doing changes only in sendmail.mc file, but all Rewrite Rules are in .cf file. I suppose ...
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milter with sendmail that rejects all emails except ones bound for 1 domain i specify [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
sendmail only relaying messages bound for one specific domain
I have a few development servers running centos that have sendmail installed that relay all email to our ...
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sendmail only relaying messages bound for one specific domain
I was wondering if you could please help me with what could be a simple problem but i cant seem to figure it out.
We have a few centos servers running sendmail (all internal servers on the local ...
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apache virtualhost force email FROM address [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Configuring php mail() per domain
I've many VirtualHosts on my Apache webserver with some different CMS (different services, different domain names, different ...
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Testing a mail server / server not making it to recipient
We have a Drupal website on a Linux server, it is using mail() to send mail through PHP. I think that would be using PHPmailer and sendmail.
Domain is www.myclientdomain.com and we can receive email ...
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MX records for a domain with a CNAME
Given something like this:
xxx.net. CNAME surrogate-xxx.net.
www.xxx.net. CNAME surrogate-xxx.net.
mail.xxx.net. A 1.2.3.4
xxx.net. MX ...
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Setting the 'from' address - Apache + PHP + Sendmail [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Apache, virtual hosts, and default sender for sendmail
Note: I've posted this on serverfault as I expect it's an issue with my configuration rather than my code.
I'm ...
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sendmail access table
I've block a domain abc.com in sendmail access table. i.e:
abc.com REJECT
Now i want to allow above domain for xyz.com. I've tried this as below,
xyz.com RELAY
abc.com REJECT
But it did ...
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Mail logs files as attachments with sendmail
I'm using logrotate to rotate my log files.
I've set it up to create new logfiles every week.
However I would like it to first mail me the logfiles as attachments.
The /var/log/httpd file currently ...
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How to use postfix to send emails [closed]
I am trying to use postfix to send emails from linux host to my email address which is hosted on Microsoft Exchange Server. Linux host is on the same network. I do not understand all the detailed ...
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Maillog explanation required
I was wondering if anyone could help me read this maillog and tell me why emails to test-b made it through while emails to test-t did not. As you will see each email is also bcc'ed to test-s, and the ...
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How do I disable Sendmail expansion of CNAMEs for a particular domain but not globally?
I have an issue due to "split DNS vision" where email is generated at a host and sent via a smarthost (relay) to an external system out of my control (business partner).
The generating server has ...
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Apache, virtual hosts, and default sender for sendmail
So here's my issue...I have two sites hosted on one machine using apache's virtual hosts. I want to send emails from the two different sites (domain.com and domain2.com) using the appropriate email ...
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Ubuntu Server sendmail to google email with same domainvwith server
I am using ubuntu server version 11.01
and I use sendmail to deliver email.
I cannot received the email send from the server to Google services, which they are in the same domain name.
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Rejecting bad attachments best practice?
When configuring a mail server, what is the best practice for rejecting an inbound internet email with an executable type I'd like to disallow? Easiest option is an NDR/DSN, but I'd think that could ...
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PHP mail() From and ReplyTo headers are apparently assembled incorrectly
I tried posting this in stackoverflow, but didn't get any (real good) answers, maybe it's more on this side of the aisle.
I have a problem on a server for which the additional headers get ignored.
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Internal e-mails
We need to send mails from our domain (assume this is example.com) to our self. Now, the 'incoming' mails are handled by another server (from Google). We can send mails through sendmail to external ...
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sendmail sending mail to recipients I don’t know of; possible spam host
Recently I did an audit of my machine with logwatch and found out that my machine sends around 582 mails everyday.
STATISTICS
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Messages To Recipients: 582
Addressed Recipients: ...
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Can sendmail DSNs be disabled?
I would like to disable/prevent SendMail from sending a notification if delivery of an email has been delayed. By default, sendmail sends this out after 4 hours.
What's the best way to do this? ...
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How to use sendmail in Ubuntu?
First: How do I know if my system is able to send an e-mail?
Second: How do I configure if it can't send an e-mail at the moment?
Because I went to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
and added this:
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What is the proper time delay between sending emails for smtp to not fail on windows server 2008 r2 [closed]
What is the proper time delay between sending emails for SMTP to not fail on Windows Server 2008 R2 machines?
For example, if I set a 500ms delay, would it successfully send all emails?
My software ...
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Exchange 2007 relay from sendmail, message “Undelivered”. Possible reasons?
Note: This is my re-post from Stackoverflow.
I've been messing with a test environment for security purposes where a DMZ RHEL5 sendmail server is used as a relay for an Exchange 2007 server. ...
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sendmail can't seem to extract the host properly from an email address
I'm trying to configure Sendmail on EC2 to use SES. I followed all the steps, but when I run the command:
sendmail -bv user@example.com
I get
user@example.com... deliverable: mailer ...
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changing root and cron 'from' and 'to' addresses
what is the easiest way to change the 'from' and 'to' email address on a CentOS server ( 2.6.18-164.el5) for all root and cron daemon emails? The server uses sendmail, my understanding is the ...
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Redirect all mails to local account during development
I'm developing a webshop. When a order has been placed it sends out invoices and notifications to coworkers via email. Developing anything related to the emails has become really annoying, as I have ...
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Linux Sendmail Same username multiple domains
I have configure my sendmail for multiple domains by creating username like
sales@domain1.com
sales@domain2.com
sales@domain3.com
in passwd file
Now I added entry in file /etc/mail/virtusetable ...
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Blocking External Mail Sent w/ Spoofed Email Address
We recently got an email from an outside server that had a spoofed "From:" header that was the email address of one of our users. Is there a way to have sendmail reject emails coming in from an ...
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I deleted /etc/passwd yesterday and I am having problems with SendMail today
So yesterday Webmin deleted my /etc/passwd and although it looks like everything is working, I can't get sendmail to work when used in a PHP script.
Using mail() returns false, using PHPMailer ...
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Backup mail on linux (sendmail)
I have an email server and I want to backup everything under /var/spool/mail/ and als the email boxes in the user homes.
Using tar when archiving the mail results in the following:
tar: ...
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fetchmail/sendmail/procmail alternative
is there a program out there that can download mail from an imap account to a local machine for local reading with a program like mutt? I'm finding the whole fetchmail/sendmail/procmail pipeline setup ...
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Ubuntu Server sendmail to google email with same domain
I am using ubuntu server version 11.01
and I use sendmail to deliver email.
I cannot received the email send from the server to Google services, which they are in the same domain name.
part of the ...
