Sendmail is the traditional MTA (message transfer agent), i.e. the traditional server program to send, transfer and deliver email. If your question is about sending mail in general, see the tag /email.
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How to let sendmail preserve plus detail for .forward?
I have a normal sendmail installation. A user has a .forward like this:
# cat ~elrond/.forward
elrond@somewhere
# sendmail -bv elrond+extra@localhost
elrond@somewhere... deliverable: mailer esmtp, ...
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What email features/functionality are baked into a typical Linux/GNU distro? [closed]
I am curious how system daemons on a local Linux host send email.
Is there some type of email framework already built in?
Do I need a MTA or a MUA?
What part does "Sendmail" play and is it a ...
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Sending mail using sendmail
Need a few clarifications regarding sending mail using sendmail.
I actually configured Bugzilla on a test server. The configuration was successful and I am now able to use it.
I also want that, ...
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SMTP connectivity issue in Zenoss (“Connection unexpectedly closed”)
I am using Zenoss for monitoring purpose .And I had been using its mail service for long time .Suddenly my mail service in zenoss stopped and started showing <class ...
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msmtp-mta: Add $HOSTNAME to every mail
I have a fleet of Ubuntu clients running msmtp-mta along with heirloom-mailx.
I'd like to have the same /etc/msmtprc on all machines.
At present, when someone uses mailx or sendmail, the mail will be ...
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Postfix header_checks
I want to forward a copy of the users email which has the specific subject. I have tried the below settings, able to Redirect that particular subject mail. But I want to forward a copy of that mail to ...
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Email Sent via root@domain.com despite modifying /etc/aliases
First, here are the entries I added/modified in /etc/postfix/main.cf file:
mydomain = domain.com
myorigin = $mydomain
relayhost = email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:25
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
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Send email if specified files do not exist
I am new to unix scripting. I have to do something like :
In a folder /x everyday 10Pm and next day 3 AM, 2 files are placed. I have to write a script which will check the folder /x and confirm if ...
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Why is sendmail appending my hostname to unknown destination domain?
I am testing the handling of mail bouncing. When I send a test email to a bad domain, for example: eric@blahblahfail.org, I get the following error in my log:
SYSERR(root): ...
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Why does sendmail work differently in different shells?
The following code works when I directly run it in bash shell:
SUBJECT="SUBJECT-"`date`;
MAIL_FROM="abc@site.com";
MAIL_TO="abc@site.com";
MAIL_CC="abc@site.com";
MAIL_FILE="/path/of/html/body.html";
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Rebuilding sendmail on FreeBSD application server after adding new activedirectory domain controller to network
In the process of adding a new ActiveDirectory domain controller to our network, we decided to rename the domain from "domain.local" to "domain.priv." I scoured all parts of our application server for ...
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How to stop mail with PHP error messages to root?
Today, my Centos has a problem. When I type df -h in SSH I get:
/dev/vzfs 61G 61G 0.3G 99% /
The disk is full. I found that /var/spool/mail/root is nearly 53GB. tail /var/spool/mail/root -n 50 ...
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What is the process `sendmail`?
When I type top commond, I see many sendmail, what are these sendmail? I never set mail in my service.
SER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
16110 root 17 0 234m 35m ...
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Courier-imap with sendmail setup: why is my IMAP inbox empty?
I've successfully installed sendmail, but when I connect to the Courier IMAP server via Outlook, the Inbox is listed as empty. When I check the inbox with Alpine locally on the server, it has content ...
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Configuring sendmail as a relay to ISP
I need to setup sendmail daemon as a simple store-and-forward mechanism to forward mails to our ISP.
I need to connect to the ISP SMTP server on port 465 using SSL/TLS and a username/password for ...
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Unmanaged VPS bought today. Sendmail not functioning correctly
I purchased an unmanaged VPS today. I moved my website on over, and when I try to send an email. It returns a blank page. Not to mention I had to install PHP myself. Apache was there, for some reason, ...
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How to prevent /var/log/mail.log from inflating?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric).
/var/log/mail keeps inflating on my server:
Aug 5 10:48:25 domU-12-31-39-0B-C4-54 sm-msp-queue[13360]: q71He1xw027248: to=postmaster, delay=3+17:03:10, ...
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How are email headers generated?
When you send an email a header is part of the message. For example, when you check your mail you can view the raw source and see the headers, which has information about the sender of email in it, ...
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How to initiate SMTP outbound traffic via secondary interface - Linux Sendmail
We have sendmail running in a RHEL box. We have two public IP address configured in the same box, one for SAP app and other for Sendmail. First interface will be used for SAP and second for Sendmail.
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Sendmail with TLS support changes FROM: address
I have multiple domains on one server and when sending email to
server, which supports TLS, server changes FROM field to default
domain ($j).
What should i do (in .mc level please) to remain primary ...
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Sendmail/procmail/Exchange truncating mail
The level of enlightenment by a colleague to find a pattern in this has saved me from a new depth of madness. My hope is that the brain trust here can now tell me why...
The Scene: We have several ...
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Sendmail configuration with user mapping on Solaris
I have the following:
host1.intra.net which has sendmail and users: user1, user2 & user3. It is running SunOS 5.10.
host2.intra.net which has SMTP server. No authentication, no encryption.
Email ...
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sendmail command not working, huge delay, no errors, no delivery [closed]
I've set up sendmail on the virtual host I rent (Ubuntu 10.10 Linux 2.6.35-22-server) and I can't get it to work, or even see any error messages to give me a clue of why it isn't working.
The only ...
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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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How to send the email which is sleeping in my queue list?
When i send email it sleep in my queue list. How can i send them out? (Fedora 15 distro).
# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ...
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sendmail not sending to the cloud (local mail works)
I'm using a perl module (Mail::Sendmail) which uses sendmail to send stuff. It hasn't been working, but hasn't been giving me any errors.
So now I suspect sendmail. I tried:
telnet 127.0.0.1 25
mail ...
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How to send non-local mail, with GMail(GApps) SMTP?
I have some (~3) Debian boxes, and I want to post system mail to my non-local mailbox. But I have a problem with configuring exim4. Also I don't like so much exim4's config. Too different, and also ...
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Apache mail sending flowchart / workflow?
I am currently trying to get my head into learning how Linux systems send mail, starting from Apache, to Sendmail and finally out the door.
Specifically I'm using CentOS 5 which is using Sendmail, ...
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sendmail not using mailertable
I'm having trouble getting my mailertable to work....
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc contains this line
FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
/etc/mail/mailertable contains this line
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How to make sendmail write to new maillog
I want to rotate my maillog, but I want to make sure the newly rotated log contains the last 2M lines from the previous log:
# write the last 2M lines to a new log
tail -n 2000000 ...
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Help with piped program in sendmail's /etc/aliases
I'm trying some sort of auto-subscription via a homegrown script. I know it can be achieved by mailing lists such as Mailman but I also want to learn at the same time on how to do it by hand.
Here's ...
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How to generate a report summary of messages that triggered a specific DSN code
I use Sendmail on CENTOS 5.x,
I hope this is a simple question. =) I need to generate a report summary of messages that triggered a specific DSN code. For example:
Jan 11 07:43:34 server-example ...
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block specific user to send mail
I am using sendmail in RHEL 5. I have three mail accounts for the users jack, bob and
alice. I want to make sure that user bob can send mail to alice but jack can't send mail to alice. But user jack ...
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What is the MIME equivalent of uuencode for sendmail?
e.g., I've got files I want to send by sendmail but the receiving mailbox (for posting pictures to my blog) will not accept uuencode files a la
$uuencode file | sendmail user@domain
I'm guessing ...
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What is sendmail referring to here?
When I install sendmail from the debian repos, I get the following output:
Disabling HOST statistics file(/var/lib/sendmail/host_status).
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
Creating ...
