Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail server that started life at IBM research as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
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Where does postfix store email?
I can't find any documentation on how postfix stores email. Where is it stored, and in what format? I'm using Ubuntu server 11
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Mail send to my domain ends up in local inbox instead of exchange server
I'm running a MediaWiki install under Ubuntu Server 10.10. I have configured it to use the standard php mail() function with my local mail delivery agent (postfix). The mail gets sent from the ...
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configure postfix to accept mail from two WANs
I have a mac server but my question has long left the realm of the GUI. My last hope is a unix forum.
I have a cisco router with two WAN ports. The mac uses postfix 2.8.3. I have correctly ...
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I am failing to send mail to a Gmail address using Postfix
I am trying to send mail to my test GMail account using Postfix (default Debian setup), and I am failing ("/var/log/mail.log"):
Sep 26 16:13:43 sugarmailer postfix/smtpd[1473]: connect from ...
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Postfix doesn't send mail, complaining about “Host or domain name not found”
I followed these instructions in order to send mail and here's the Postfix log:
Sep 26 00:46:24 tshepang postfix/smtpd[5728]: 8EE2464931: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Sep 26 00:47:44 tshepang ...
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Postfix cannot find a MySQL shared library
I am trying to install Postfix with MySQL support. When I start or run the postfix daemon, it complains that it "cannot find libmysqlclient.so.18", which is in the directory /usr/local/mysql/lib, ...
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postfix default alias used even when I have other aliases
I tried adding a rule to /etc/aliases which would send a message to /dev/null if it was sent to a particular alias:
fooname: /dev/null
I have postfix set up with a default address for a particular ...
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Configure postfix to send and receive to and from localhost
Does anyone know what needs to be configured for postfix so that emails can be sent to localhost and received from localhost?
e.g. send an email to user1@localhost will:
result in user1 receiving ...
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postfix doesn't respond on 25 from external server
I am trying to set up postfix with dovecot. I can telnet to localhost 25 and send a message to accounts on the server.
However, when I try to telnet to port 25 on this server from another server I ...
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Postfix: Can I configure it to *not* include original email on undeliverable?
The question's title says it all.
Scenario: The Postfix server is used only for mail-relay; in the office back-end, we use hMailServer. Some hMailServer users have their emails auto-forwarded to ...
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How to send mail from a remote SMTP host?
I have Postfix suite installed locally on Ubuntu 10.10. I can send/receive mail to my local address, e.g. user@local.com. I'm given credentials to a remote mail server mailbox, e.g. ...
