General purpose email routing software that supports mail transport via TCP/IP using SMTP
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postfix uses hostname instead of myhostname
I am trying to set up an outgoing mail server for sending emails which is to relay to our ISP.
In /etc/postfix/main.cf I have myhostname to ourcompany.example.com and myorigin and mydomain to ...
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1answer
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Linode w/ Google Apps - how to get mail from PHP working?
I have a CentOS Linode instance that I'm running as a LAMP stack. I'm also using Google Apps for email. I have my MX records pointing at google's servers and everything is working in terms of relaying ...
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1answer
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Can Hand-Edited sendmail.cf actually be generated from sendmail.mc?
I have two CentOS systems, version 5 and 6. Because our firewall has blocked off unsolicited port 25 traffic, we have a little Perl script that logs into our email server as a valid user to send email ...
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2answers
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Unable to add IPv6 address to sendmail access list
I am running Sendmail 8.14.4 on Slackware 13.37. I have the following in my /etc/mail/access file and it works without any errors:
Connect:127 OK
Connect:10.0.1 RELAY ...
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Sendmail relay out of Amazon EC2?
I have a site running on CentOS 5.4 through Amazon EC2. Unfortunately, Amazon has had nothing but trouble with their entire IP range getting black listed from spam tracking services regularly. I need ...
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1answer
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How to reduce the Sendmail DNS timeout period
I have a problem with the sendmail DNS timeout period when trying to sent to a email address which has a DNS issue.
Let's say the problematic email address is test@problemdomain.com (not real one)
I ...
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sendmail on ubuntu (9.10) machine “stopped” sending mail
I'm developing on my ubuntu 9.10 machine for the web (php).
I'm using it sendmail for sending mails, and while developing on my local machine, I send local mails (to my user 'doron').
Up until a ...
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can't get php mail() working on Ubuntu desktop version with sendmail and postfix
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 LAMP and trying to do a simple email test with PHP and I'm not getting any emails sent.
mail("myemail@gmail.com", "eric-linux test", "test") or die("can't send mail");
I ...
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Fastest way to allow sendmail relay through smarthost?
I only want sendmail to relay through my ISP's smtp server, nothing else. How do i set it up?
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all mails going to gmail SPAM (sendmail on centos) 127.0.0.1 problem?
UPDATE ON SPF CHECK http://www.openspf.org/Why:
The SPF check gives me this: An SPF-enabled mail server rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of support@ourdomain.com. An ...
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what is mda (fetchmail) and mta (sendmail)?
i have read some articles about mda and mta but still don't have a hang on it.
what is exactly is the difference between a mda like fetchmail and a mta like sendmail.
in my computer, do i have to ...
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How can i send /var/mail/root again?
Through some missconfiguration i've a lot of emails in /var/mail/root and /var/mail/www-data
How can i "loop" over these files and send each mail another time?
Thanks in advance!
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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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Amazon SES for sendmail in ubuntu
i tried to use Amazon SES with sendmail on my ubuntu server for sending mail because EC2 ips are blacklisted and i followed the following tutorial
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2answers
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Script Help - Parse /var/spool/mail/user
CentOS 5.x | SendMail
Hi guys,
Is there an easy way to retrieve individual messages from /var/spool/mail/? I have an idea for a really simple script and would like to check each individual message ...
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2answers
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sendmail config, making open relay
I'm trying to find a sendmail.mc that allows open relaying without username/password to any system (im testing some code that uses SMTP).
Google'd, could not find and it has been a long while since I ...
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2answers
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sendmail on Snow Leopard
I'm trying to get sendmail working on my MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.4), so that I can send mail with PHP's mail() function. If you know how to do this without sendmail, I'd be interested in that also.
The ...
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1answer
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Question on SendMail daemon actions when load average is too high
My sendmail server started rejecting connections because load average was too high (due to a spam issue that has since been resolved).
Error was: sendmail[13400]: rejecting connections on daemon ...
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1answer
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sendmail vs smtp server
I currently don't have a SMTP server setup. However, in my PHP code, I send all my SMTP request to sendmail. Are there any down fall to using this procedure? If yes, what are the advantages of ...
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How do you configure sendmail to reject Email with a Date header too far from real time?
A friend of mine using (I believe) qmail has it configured to reject, as SPAM, any incoming Email with a Date: header that is too far from real time. I can't figure out how to do this with sendmail. ...
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when use . after myhost.mydomain in config files?
I noticed sometimes '.' can be seen at the end of
myhost.mydomain
so it is
myhost.mydomain.
^^^
statement. Where should I use this '.' at the end?
Currently in etc/hosts I ...
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2answers
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Centos with Sendmail
I installed CentOS that I use as a webserver (Apache) and I also have the sendmail running on it.
I didn't change any configuration in my sendmail. It's currently set to the default settings.
I can ...
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1answer
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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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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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2answers
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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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3answers
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PHP mail() function freezing
I had an issue where the permissions of /var/lib/php/session got overwritten so I could no longer created session variables in PHP.
I think the same thing is happening with my mail function. Where ...
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1answer
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60 second php mail() delay through browser / Apache, but no delay through commandline
I am having a problem on my server when the PHP mail() function is being used in a browser, so through Apache.
When the script, lets call it mailtest.php, is being called through a browser, there is ...
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4answers
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script to test mail server
Ever since a windows update that took down my IIS6 mail server a few weeks back, I've been really paranoid about my mail server working.
So every time I run a windows update I fire up command prompt ...
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2answers
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Sendmail to local domain ignoring MX records (part 2)
I have the exact problem, like in this post: http://serverfault.com/questions/25068/sendmail-to-local-domain-ignoring-mx-records I am also using email provider like GMail For Your Domain (which stores ...
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1answer
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Sendmail & IpTable Rules
I need to setup IpTable Rules for a server with nginx, ssh and sendmail.
Now, the problem is, with my rules I can not send emails to other hosts anymore.
Emails to localhost do work, but sending to ...
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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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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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How to make sendmail to relay local mails?
I have www server called say mywebsite.com and mail serwer mymail.com. Mail for mywebsite.com is handled by mymail.com (mx record for mywebsite.com is mymail.com). Problem is that I want to send mails ...
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Configuring sendmail to archive a copy of any outgoing message
How do I configure sendmail to keep a copy of any message I send. An option would be to automatically send a copy back to my box.
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How to configure sendmail to relay through a specific server
I have a tiny home server setup behind my cable modem (bresnan communications). I want to be able for this box to send out email (not receive) for notifications and whatnot.
What I have already ...
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2answers
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How to change default sendmail SMTP error codes, responses, and/or DSN text?
CentOS 5.x - SendMail
Hi Guys,
I'm curious -- is there any way to customize the STMP error codes, response text, and/or DSN body text in sendmail?
If so, where is this stored?
Thanks,
Mike
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4answers
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What is the fastest mail server software
I'm currently developing an application which may have to send a large amount of e-mails at once. I was wondering what you guys would recommend as the fastest (e-mails sent per minute) mail server to ...
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Configuring sendmail as a multi-domain relay server
I've got several different servers running different OS's internally and each handles e-mail for specific domains. Since I only have one public-facing IP for these, I'd like to configure my ...
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How can I set up sendmail to forward all mail to an external MTA?
We have multiple applications that currently talk SMTP to an external MTA. The emails have arbitrary destination domains (they're emails to be sent to our users), but all from the same internal domain ...
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2answers
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Sendmail Configuration to not deliver mail to local machine
I have sendmail up and running on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine. It can send mail correctly to all but the domain to which it is a part. How do I configure it to not send to itself for email addresses on ...
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2answers
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sendmail.cf to read server name from another file?
I need to provide the name of a relay server to my sendmail configuration file.
This server name is however configurable via another system/application.
In case of a change, i need to change the ...
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1answer
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How to read HUGE clientmqueue in human format?
Clientmqueue is over 18GB and
ls /var/spool/clientmqueue
is working 5 min already.
I want to see what mail is in the queue. Maybe i can read some in human format?
To see date title who send it and ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Setup mail server on Ubuntu 10.04
I'm trying to setup a mail server on Ubuntu 10.04.
I followed this instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html#postfix-troubleshooting
when I'm testing the connection ...
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1answer
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how to enable selinux in kernel
I am working with the Linux -64 AMI on AWS. I am trying to get my mail server running on the box.
In an attempt to turn on SELinux I did
Edited /boot/grub/grub.conf and added selinux=1 to the end ...
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1answer
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What usually happens to a message when server returns SMTP Error 550?
What usually happens when a message recipient can not be found?
Will it be deleted or archived on the (destination) server?
In 550 case, will the message body be sent at all?
Action: failed
Status: ...
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fedora can not boot - sendmail sm-client exim abandoned
I am having an issue with booting fedora. it hangs with error message:
sendmail sm-client exim abandoned unknown malformed or incomplete option -L
how can i fix the issue ? is there any way to ...
