Questions tagged [attachment]
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mailx Set Name of Attached File
I have a cron job, whose output I send to mailx:
# Monday morning at midnight; "mail" is symlink to "mailx"
00 00 * * mon python3 script-with-7500line-output.py | mailx -S 'from=...
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Exchange 2019 refusing attachments within permitted size
I have external users (different mail host) trying to send messages to internal users on our Exchange 2019 server. The attachments are large (7MB-10MB before Base64 encoding), and the senders are ...
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Roundcube restricts attachment below declared limit
I have mail server with spec:
Centos 7
Roundcube 1.3.5
MTA Postfix 2.10.1
I have limited the attachment upload size to 5M in:
/etc/php.ini => post_max_size = 10M , upload_max_filesize = 5M
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How can i (re)send /var/mail/root (Original Mail)?
Our server was reconfigured and a lot of email as failed to be delivered.
I found a thread to resend email from /var/mail/root here :
https://serverfault.com/questions/90023/how-can-i-send-var-mail-...
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Mobile devices unable to send mail due to servers sending quota being exceeded
I have a customer who has their own exchange.
Their mobile devices are struggling to send emails with attachments and keep reporting that "your email server's sending quota has been exceeded".
I've ...
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List attachment count per user in Exchange online (O365)
Is there any way to list attachment usage in outgoing emails of all users?
I would like to run a campaign at our company to make users aware of better options than using an attachment, and having the ...
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Outlook 2016 applies Exchange attachment size limits to other POP3/IMAP account
In our organization, there is a 10MB limit on email attachment size (through Exchange 2013). Most of our clients have another POP3/IMAP account too (in Outlook, besides their Exchange account). The ...
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Cannot attach large attachments although server settings would permit that
we're currently have some weird issue with our organization's Exchange Server 2010:
Although on the server the attachment size is set to 55000000 bytes in the web.config file for OWA, users cannot ...
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Forward all ZIP attachments to a single central address
Lately my server has been getting pounded with spam containing ZIP attachments (presumably infected with something). They go to most of our users, and the fear is someone will open one.
Users are ...
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Mutt suddenly stopped sending emails with attachments via Postfix
Issue arose when an attachment froze at the send stage (after uploading fine) in mutt 1.5.24. I updated to mutt 1.6.1, same compile flags, but still didn't send. Tested in Thunderbird (icedove) and it ...
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Postfix block double extensions in archive attachment
These days I have problems with trojans in attachments like:
//EZuS.zip//invoice_scan_xcFSuO.xls.js contains a potentially infected object HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic.
//TuxX.zip//...
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Cant send large attachments from iOS using Exchange 2013 [duplicate]
Some of my users are having issues sending emails with attachments from iOS devices but the same works fein from desktop versions. There seems to be a link to the size of the attachment, as an example ...
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Is showing E-Mail Inline Attachments in Exchange/Outlook a bad practice?
We are currently in the situation that we receive some E-Mails from our business partners containing inline attachments of the file types .doc(x) and .pdf with our Exchange Server.
Outlook does not ...
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Reliable/robust method of ripping attachments from a POP/IMAP/Exchange mailbox
I'm looking for some fresh ideas after a bit of a google and would love your opinion:
I have an email address hosted in exchange that will receive attachments on a regular basis. I would like a ...
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How to block attachments on incoming mails only using Postfix?
I have a mail server (CentOS 6.5) running Postfix and Dovecot
Postfix is listening on port 25 for inbound mail and 587 for outbound mail
The problem is outbound mail with pdf attachments are being ...
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Sending cron output as a text file attachment
I sysadmin a multiplayer game at CentOS 6.5 Linux server for a customer.
The customer has requested me to send the daily chat logs (to identify and ban agressive players) - as a text file attachement....
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Email appears to be sent, but never arrived (probably because of attachment size). Shouldn’t there be an error message? [closed]
A friend tried to send me an email containing a big attachment (> 30 MB). According to his email client, the email was sent successfully (it moved from Outbox to Sent folder).
I never received this ...
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Exchange transport rule to remove attachments
What is the best method to remove attachments from outgoing emails using Exchange?
I need to apply the rule only to messages going to one specific email address. And I need to strip off all ...
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Scripts or tools to parse email message to remove attachment of particular name
I have configured Redmine email integration and while it's awesome, a major annoyance is that people have signatures that include a company logo, which then gets posted to every ticket they update via ...
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Exchange 2010: Issues increasing maximum email size (smtp;550 5.3.4 SMTPSEND.OverAdvertisedSize)
I have a recently-deployed 1 server windows domain running Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP3, running on the 2003 R2 domain and forest level. The server receives email through a main ...
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How can you send mime encoded emails on systems that do only support uuencode
If you use e.g. Solaris without additional installed software to send MIME mails: how can you send mails with MIME attachments with standard command line tools?
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Outlook/Exchange allows some users to open a jar attachment
Using Windows SBS 2003 and Outlook 2007.
We just received an email virus in a jar file. For most users Outlook blocked the attachment as per usual, but unfortunately on one users computer this didn't ...
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Exchange 2003 purge old attachments from mailboxes
i have to save space in my server and i thought to purge the old attachments of email, is it possibile with exchange 2003? Thank you
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How to configure postfix to bcc an email as an attachment?
I can configure postfix with e.g. recipient_bcc_maps to copy sender or recipient emails to an address. However what I need is to not just forward a copy of the original mail, but rather to compose a ...
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uuencoded mail attachments display as binary code
I have run into a attachment display issue at a client who has recently switched from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. The issue was initially perceived as affecting only Mac OS X email clients (...
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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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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" sample@...
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Changing the maximum mail size in Postfix
When sending large email to a new CentOS6 server running Postfix as the MTA, the following message is returned:
tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We ...
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Issues with Forefront for Exchange file filter
I have an issue where I want to strip some image attachments from emails.
Using Forefront for Exchange I can create a file filter rule based on attachment name, type, and size. This initially seemed ...
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Why do we still have such small email attachment filesize restrictions? [closed]
What's the technical limitation preventing us, in the glorious year 2011, from emailing each other 1GB files?
Or is it just the main email platforms dragging their feet?
If I can set my inbox to ...
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How configure Zimbra to bounce mails over a given size limit?
How to configure Zimbra to bounce/notify email to sender due to over attach size from external mails like Gmail, Yahoo, etc..
I am using Zimbra open source edition. Undelivered mails are not bouncing ...
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Outlook Meeting Requests Not Being Re-encoded from Base 64 by Receiving Clients
Exchange 2010 + Outlook 2007. Users send outlook meeting request to a list of recipients both interanlly and externally to the organisation. Some recipients report receiving 'garbled' messages instead ...
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Outlook 2007 off of Exchange 2003. Paperclip shows but no attachment on message
I have 2 users that occasionally receive emails with a pdf attachment that is not actually on the email. The paperclip will show in outlook but there is actually nothing attached. Accessing via owa ...
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Extracting and saving attachments from maildir, deduplicated
I would like to know if there exists a solution for archiving email, stripping out the attachments and saving them separately, deduplicated?
The ideal would be a maildir-setup, with a script running ...
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How can I send emails from the command line with recipient tab-completion and proper file attachment?
A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):
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Email attachments sent to a group don't show up for some
My boss sent out an email from my Exchange 2010 org and attached a PDF and a Word doc to it. He came back the next day and told me that some of the 8 or 10 people that received this email could open ...
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Filtering attachment types in Google Apps (free Google Business)
We have Google apps in our company for mail delivery, our business can't pay the business version yet, however, we need to control the attachment types that employees download.
We recently switched ...
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How to add filter for Gmail (business version) attachment file types
I need to block certain file types from the attachment inside the company, this is part of the company policy. Can this be done with gmail free services? using a firewall some how?
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What's the largest message size modern email systems generally support?
I know that Yahoo and Google mail support 25MB email attachments. I have an idea from somewhere that 10MB email messages are generally supported by modern email systems.
So if I'm sending an email ...
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Programatically Determine Exchange Attachment Limit
Is there any way to query the exchange server to determine the maximum attachment file size? I'd be doing this in ASP.NET/C#. I'd like to be able to validate the file they want to attach is not over ...
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Maildir and mail attachments
If the mail receive with attachments and mail storage in the server - Maildir. How attachment set in Maildir format?
For example: I user maildir for incoming message in my server. I got 1 message ...
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Sending an email with attachments from the results of a cron job
I have a cron job that generates text files. I'd like these files to be sent as attachments to an email address. It's important that they show up as attachments in a multi-part MIME message and not ...
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Outlook 2007 + Exchange 2010 (Save All Attachments)
About 3 weeks back our company upgraded our mail system to Exchange 2010, all went smooth, few issues but nothing major.
A few days ago we had a call from a college where he was unable to save all ...
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Save attachment from IMAP on networkdrive
I'm looking for a solution to save automatically attachments of an e-mail for a specific mailbox on an network drive. Mails are stored on cyrus imap server.
Does anyone know a script or something ...
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Do modern mail servers still escape lines they think are headers?
For many years I have made it my practice to set up my e-mail clients so that when I forward e-mails I forward them as attachments rather than forwarding them "inline".
I did this because, in the ...
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Email Attachment Size Limits
Given I have plenty of disk space to work with, what are some technical considerations that I need to consider when configuring email attachment size limits?
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Considering MIME Expansion bloat, how does that affect settings for Exchange 2003/2007/2010 message size limits?
Since the mime encoding can increase a message's size by 33%, what is the correct math I need to do to filter messages larger than 45Mb? Is the math needed at all?
Does the math change among ...
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Why does Exchange 2003 silently reject emails with large attachments?
Our environment:
Exchange Server 2003 Standard, single instance, running on Windows Server 2003 Standard.
configured to not send/receive mail with attachments larger than 10 MB.
NDRs are not enabled....
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Sympa attachments are zero length when downloading from a message in moderation
I have an issue with the web interface for Sympa mailing list server. If you try to download an attachment from a message that's in moderation, the file is zero length. The mime headers are being sent ...
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Opinion question about security viruses and HTML attachments
In the last couple of weeks my company has been inundated by a group of viruses including an .html attachment. Some of these were subjected UPS shipment, some Western Union. All of them asking the ...