Questions tagged [postfix]
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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how to use the mutt command and send an email through a specific instance with postfix?
I set multiple instance postfix in one server, how to use the mutt command and send an email through a specific instance?thanks.
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Sender address substitution when relaying the mail
I would like to implement sender address substitution on Postfix server, namely, if email originates from some dummy@mycompany.org to some friend@gmail.com then substitute the sender with real+dummy@...
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Postfix send e-mail on behalf of G Suite
I have a domain registered on G Suite and I'm building a app that needs to send Transactional email such as password recovery and email verifies. The smtp for gmail has a low quota for that. I need to ...
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Sending mail from Docker container
I want to send mails from my docker container . We have an SMTP relay host in our network which forwards mail traffic to the SMTP server .
I manually installed postfix in our docker container and ...
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I'm not receiving anything in my inbox I set up using ISPConfig. How do I fix this?
Before I upgraded to Debian Stretch, I had to manually install ISP-Config and adjust a bunch of other things before I could even install it. Now, when I went to check for a new version to run on ...
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How to use emojis on the subject line of mail?
I am writing a shell script to setup a few servers and once it is done, it will send an email to our help desk letting us know that the server is ready to be used.
I would like to use the following ...
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Find wich mailbox encrypt or not encrypt there passwords for IMAP or POP3
I try to list all mailboxes with the method of encryption passwords.
How can I do this? I know that I can grep the method=LOGIN,PLAIN,CRAM-MD5
with: cat /var/log/mail.log | grep method=LOGIN or ...
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Filter out incomming emails based on a domain TLD, using regexp
I want to filter incomming emails for certain domains, using a regexp. My regexp:
sudo cat /etc/postfix/header_checks
/^From:\d+[.]com$/ REJECT 554
Config:
$ sudo postconf | grep header_checks
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How does postgrey track inbound mail
I need to understand how postgrey keeps track of inbound mail. I know the concept of how greylisting works, but I'm wondering about the actual method. Greylisting will count the number of times a mail ...
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Postfix / SpamAssassin ignoring SPF entirely
I am currently getting a ton of email from "myself" and have been having a ton of difficulty filtering it. I have postfix configured to check SPF and (presumably) reject if it fails, and SpamAssassin ...
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Any attachment should not deliver to cross domain
I'm Using Postfix and created virtual domain for example acb.com and xyz.com. If we send any mail with attachment from abc.com to abc.com that should be deliver but if we are sending mail from abc.com ...
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Generate postfix log file for current month or last year in 12 log files
I have an issue with my postfix mail server amount of sent emails in 11-5-2019 and when I use pflogsumm command pflogsumm /var/log/mail.log.1 __ /name.txt
It generate new days.
I need:
1- Command ...
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Transfer all root mail to the anough user
I want to transfer my root mail to another user (his nick's userto).
I do not want to forward mail, because of userto's home directory locate at encryption HDD which I mount when I use it and dismount ...
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Thunderbird can't find mail server configuration
I'm having issues when it comes to connecting to my mail server using Thunderbird client. The weird thing is that I can connect to my mail server usign telnet in the client "telnet mail.zumsfresh 25"
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How to read content of bayes_seen & bayes_toks
I want to copy spam filter configuration from another server and use it for same domain which I migrated to new server, so I wanted to use it's spam filter, but how can I read it, or copy? I have ...
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Inconsistency between Spamassassin command line check vs daemon check
I'm running a mail server with postfix and spamassassin, and I appear to be getting a fair amount of junk mail through.
I picked on one email at random to compare what the email headers say ...
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failed to start postfix.service: Unit not found
I just got my own VPS with CentOS 7, and I'm trying to install GitLab on it. I'm following the instructions listed here. My problem is the command systemctl start postfix. I did the yum install ...
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Closing port 25 for SMTP when using Gmail via Postfix
On my server, I need to send email via Postfix. The SMTP settings are as follows and these work. Email is sent via Gmail properly:
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
smtp_use_tls = yes
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opendkim.sock file not being created or does not exist
I'm attempting to configure opendkim on my raspberry email server that has a dovecot/postfix setup already configured.
I have followed some tutorials and some forum posts to further diagnose my issue....
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Debian / Postfix / Header Checks / Changing Subject based on “To:”
I'm trying to configure a change of subject for incoming emails based on the "To:" address of the (virtual) email address, rather unsuccessfully. I run into two problems.
The first problem is that I ...
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Send mail to SMTP server on same LAN from CLI (confused with Mutt and Postfix)
I need to send mail from CLI (Cron) to a mail server that is on the same LAN. After some googling Mutt seemed like a good option as it appeared simply installing Mutt and adding SMTP options to ....
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how to omit warnings of mail command, can these warnings be ignored
how to omit the warnings in output of mail command .
user@sanadmcode:~> echo "Test mail from postfix" | mail -s "Test Postfix" myemail@domain.com
user@sanadmcode:~> send-mail: warning: /etc/...
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Randomly failing services CentOS7 - Monit too [closed]
I've recently created a new CentOS 7 setup with Apache, Nodejs, Lfd and Postfix and i'am also using monit to track failed services.
For some reason randomly, services are failing including monit as ...
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postfix dual delivery to local (virtual) mailbox and google smtp
We're migrating from our own mail server to Google Apps and I need to somehow deliver any incoming mail to both the local mail server and Google until we have everyone moved over. I'm following the ...
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How to build Postfix from Debian Salsa Git? (gbp:error: upstream/3.3.2 is not a valid treeish)
I would like to rebuild the Debian package 'postfix'. Without anything fancy, so no local patches and unsigned packages are fine.
Here's what I tried:
Install some dependencies:
$ apt install ...
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postfix maillog realtime Formatted?
Question: I can "tail" the maillog for a real time view of the postfix mail log BUT... is there anyone out there whom wrote a way to do this that is "reasonably formatted?"
Meaning: It's garble......
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Debian - problem related to procmail
recently I started getting an error like that:
This is the mail system at host xxx.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could notbe
delivered to one or more recipients. It's ...
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Repairing postfix - unable to create /root/mailbox.lock
Because of recent policy changes at our office's ISP (no more SSL or TLS 1.0, only TLS 1.1+), I've had to ditch ssmtp as our mail relay on a Debian 9 workstation. I reinstalled postfix, which ...
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Mutt error SMTP session failed: read error
set ssl_starttls=yes
set ssl_force_tls=yes
set imap_user = 'name@gmail.com'
set imap_pass = 'password'
set from='name@gmail.com'
set realname='name@gmail.com'
set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/
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fail2ban will not ban again after first one expires
I couldn't make fail2ban to block IP address coming up in postfix log on Debian 9. I rewrote the failregex to be like this:
NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from (.*)\[<HOST>\]:(.*) 550 5.7.1 Service ...
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How to install Postfix in an all default way (no setup wizard) and to be used with no email DNS records?
The following question is a follow up to this question.
In a latest Debian 9 stable I desire to install Postfix to send email from my machine to my very own Gmail account by the quickest install ...
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Understanding sendmail binary
I have a website with some PHP based CMS on which I'm the only user. This website has a simple contact form (name, email, phone and body) by which I get mail from non registered users.
One the one ...
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Postfix: Whitelist all entries in address book
my postfix currently rejects emails that are potentially SPAM. Howver, some of my contacts have servers that are not correctly configured and I want to avoid rejecting their email.
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Postfix domain not found
I have set up postfix on a server that has to send all output from root to R*****@gmail.com - But the problem is that when it sends mail it tries and sends to "root@rene-desktop" which I am notified ...
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change maillog default path in rsyslog
I am using redhat linux and the default location of my postfix is /var/log/maillog
. I am trying to change maillog location to /app/log/maillog. I have tried to update rsyslog.conf
mail.* ...
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Rsyslog concatenate postfix output
I'm trying to concatenate postfix log output with rsyslog directly. This is my template.
template(name="TestMailTemplate" type="list"){
property(name="timestamp" dateFormat="rfc3339")
constant(value="...
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Update postfix/mail version
When I'm checking my postfix version
postconf -d | grep mail_version
the output I get is
mail_version = 2.11.0 milter_macro_v = $mail_name $mail_version
But when I run apt-get install postfix, ...
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Warning in the logs of Postfix: “restriction NNN ignored: no SASL support”. But it does have SASL support
I have postfix + dovecot + pgsql. All has been working. Recently I've changed something in the config to combat spam. Now I see this in the logs:
localhost postfix/smtpd[2299]: warning: restriction `...
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Sendmail migration: Replicating all incoming mails to another mailserver
I am migrating a mailserver running sendmail 8.14.3 to a postfix server. The MDA on the new server is Dovecot. In order to ensure a seamless transition, it would be best if incoming mails are ...
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Why does postfix main.cf contain configuration like readme_directory, manpage_directory etc? [closed]
I am setting up yet another mailserver with postfix.
So while configuring I see these configurations in main.cf. Can someone tell me why these are in the main.cf? I mean, why would a daemon config ...
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Postfix: Remove the software name in the email header
I need to remove the software name in the email header. Every time when I send the emails, the postfix server sent emails at the destination the emails headers include the following:
by mail.example....
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Hide “You have old mail” message when logging into shell?
I have a mail system set up on my server (Postfix + Dovecot) that I use for personal and sys-admin email. Every time I login via shell (for all of my accounts), the message "You have old mail." is ...
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Sending attachments with GNU mail to @kindle.com
Background: I'm trying to set up a server to regularly pull RSS feeds, package them up in a mobi-ebook and send them to my kindle.
Problem: If I configure the server to send to my @kindle.com email ...
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Automating postfix installation
I have been trying to automatically install postfix in a non-interactive way via startup-script on machine boot up.
After a bit of research I found out some suggestion that I could try to install it ...
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With “reject_sender_login_mismatch” I can no longer send email [duplicate]
I've added "reject_sender_login_mismatch" to "smtpd_sender_restrictions" as was suggested to me. Now I get this when sending an email:
<my_email@my_domain.com>: Sender address rejected: not ...
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I can't send email via my own Postfix anymore due to enforced restrictions that I made
Until recently my server with Postfix has worked well. Then I enforced some restrictions to a) combat spam b) disable sending emails to me on behalf on my own name -- I have begun receiving emails ...
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Auto-notify when postfix requires TLS?
I've set up postfix on CentOS 7, and configured it to require STARTTLS to accept incoming mail. I've run into a couple instances where a server doesn't, for whatever reason, support TLS encryption, ...
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How to install MIMEDefang on Debian?
I'm trying to install MIMEDefang on my Debian Stretch but it doesn't work out the of box and I can't find any guides that work.
After apt install mimedefang I added the following to /etc/postfix/main....
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Configure Postfix to Send Mail Using Gmail in Ubuntu 16.04
I have configured Postfix to Send Mail Using Gmail.
I have modified the file /etc/postfix/main.cf
adding
myhostname = fqdn.peris.app
mydestination = $myhostname, peris.app, localhost, localhost....
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How to fix postfix set-permissions without user named root?
I'm trying to setup Postfix from Entware (a repo for embedded devices).
There is no SElinux involved and chroot is disabled in master.cf.
# postconf -n
command_directory = /opt/sbin
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