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Why qmail is rejecting sending emails with bare LFs characters?

I have a problem with qmail, which is rejecting send emails from 2 email accounts in particular. When I enter through webmail everything works ok but when I use the blessed "MS Outlook" ...
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Qmail bounce using spamassassin

I have a qmail / spamd / clamd server and it’s recently started bouncing emails with a code 553. Spamhaus is sayings it’s an open relay problem on their message to the user. Has anyone come across ...
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Mbox files not shown on client over IMAP after restore from backup

The story: the HDD containing user /home/* directories with Mboxes died. I restored them from a backup to another machine and mounted the whole structure back to the original imap's server /home ...
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smtproutes relay all except local virtual domains

I'm using smtproutes to deliver users' email to certain domains through an external SMTP server with example.com:externalsmtp.com How can I deliver all the emails to my external SMTP except for local ...
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QMail patched. Need to add new user

I have a client that just handed us access to their servers after their onsite IT quit. One is QMail that has been patched. I think it's https://qmail.jms1.net/patches/validrcptto.cdb.shtml. But ...
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Upgrading qmail from 1.03-38 to 1.06-5

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I tried to upgrade a chroot'ed environment and it seems I broke dpkg in the process. I don't know if the cause of the problems is that apt-get isn't able to handle a qmail ...
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Forword incoming email to all existing emails via .qmail

Is it possible to forward incoming emails to all other email adresses on the server? Let's say you have "[email protected]" and every employee shall also get the emails sent to this address. (Not ...
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qmail couldn't find any host named [closed]

System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (fresh install) qmail dovecot Plesk 17 Mail configuration was done with plesk. It is not possible to send any mail to any reciepents on different domains. Log contains: ...
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Why does dovecot cur folder remain very large after emptying it?

My CentOS system, used for PHPList, accumulates incoming mail in this path: /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/noreply/Maildir/cur There used to be hundreds of thousands of emails in this mailbox, they ...
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Forward mail using qmail to multiple recipients dynamically

I am trying to forward an incoming mail to multiple recipients. The recipient's addresses are stored inside a mysql database, so I need to call a script to get the addresses before forwarding the mail....
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Qmail SMTP receiver always delays by 66 seconds

I am currently struggling with a problem in my qmail setup, which seems to delay my smtp receiver everytime for 66 seconds. This is for most remote hosts fine, but some seem to reach their timeout and ...
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Emails are delayed from certain senders

For some reason, emails from senders who send an email via outlook (Microsoft SMTP Server) are always delayed. I have attached part of email header below which states that email was sent on "Fri, 22 ...
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re-forward mails already IN mailbox using qmail

I broke my qmail formwarding rule for quite a month, and incoming mails now are in my default mailbox instead of being forwarded to &another|mail-adddress.com. Is there a way to re-forward all ...
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Can sendmail forward e-mail immediately instead of queueing?

Some of the e-mail passing through my server is forwarded to external accounts. Unfortunately, my upstream SMTP-server is very picky about spam -- and rejects some of the legitimate messages as such. ...
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How to track scripts that are sending SPAM?

Our server is hosting multiples websites for different clients. The hosting provider has blocked the port 25 after detecting that our dedicated server is sending spams. I have checked Qmail logs but ...
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Qmail errors using qmailctl

I am following the guide "Life with Qmail Life With Qmail When I try to execute the qmailctl command, I get the following: root@mail:~# qmailctl start Starting qmail qmail-send supervise not ...
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Should we rename the host name part of the email files when migrating to another email server?

The original email file name pattern looks like this: 1447902202.31829.old-domain.com,S=15459960_2,S If we are going to migrate to another email server, should we rename the host name part of the ...
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Qmail: Send all outgoing mails to local file

When I have to test an email-sending web application on a server, how could I achive that every mails which should get delivered non-local (be sent to some remote smtp) gets stored in a local file (or ...
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Forward all SMTP traffic to anti-spam server except for authenticated SMTP?

Historically, we have handled SMTP traffic across a handful of multipurpose servers each with their own local spam-fighting stack. We've grown and this is no longer feasible to maintain. Now we have a ...
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Recover emails from Qmail

I installed Kloxo on a dedicated server (CentOS 5) a long time ago. Now I'm moving everything to another dedicated server with another control panel. I moved all the websites and databases, but not ...
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