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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Oracle Linux postfix conf SMTP - Default sender 'from' issue
How do I specify a default sender 'from:' address in postfix config for emails through smtp?
I'm trying to send emails through SMTP and a relay from two different servers with Oracle Linux 8
The ...
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How to edit DMARC report message?
There is a mail server (postfix), which has DKIM, SPF and DMARC policies configured.
All of them are PASSED, system works perfect.
As an administrator, I receive these kind of letters everyday:
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Cannot properly send email in MacOS via postfix
Telling story short.
My MacOS version is: 12.4.
In /etc/postfix/:
In sasl_passwd i have:
smtp.emailsrvr.com:587 <myEmail>:<password>
In main.cf i have:
# custom POSTFIX email sender ...
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Postfix: enable DKIM signing on local non-secure submissions to port 25
I have a Postfix server which accepts outgoing mail submissions from local network on port 587 (TLS) which requires authentication, signs them with OpenDKIM and they get delivered nice and clean into ...
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Impossible to create an email address from the postfix admin
Good morning,
I am doing a year-end project which consists in creating a postfix mail server, I arrived at the creation of emails except that when I want to create an impossble mail addendum I have ...
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understanding /etc/aliases file functions [duplicate]
I am trying to understand the "/etc/aliases" file in linux. What is it and how does it work. Can you give a very clear example with most needed details but in a simple language.
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Rate Limiting Outgoing via Relay Host
How do I get per domain rate limiting in Postfix?
I have a Postfix server that's behind a relay host. The relay host is our MS Exchange bridge. The relay does not perform any throttling, nor will it ...
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What's required to let a domain send outbound emails from multiple domains?
Let's say I have:
40 outbound emails to send
main domain - main_domain.com
4 separate domains-workers with Postfix - mail.my_postfix1.com...mail.my_postfix4.com
Goal: send 10 emails via each of 4 ...
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Postfix can send to everywhere except Comcast?
I have a VPS running CentOS that hosts a few websites with email. It's recently come to my attention that outgoing emails to @comcast.net addresses are not delivering. I've observed that these ...
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How can I store emails on an external drive with Postfix/Dovecot?
So I set up a a Postfix/Dovecot server on my Raspberry Pi, and I wanted to be able to actually store the emails themselves I have on an external SSD I have since my SD card is 32 GBs and my SSD is ...
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postfix + dovecot server successfully by client mail app problem to add account to this server
I need help to solve this problem.
I setup a postfix and dovecot server and have some problems with the mail client.
I can received the mail and reply from the postfix. Just cannot setup a mail client ...
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Postfix doesn't send emails until after systemctl restart postfix
I'm been trying to set up smtp postfix on Ubuntu 18.04. I've finally got it so that gmail recipients see SPF and DKIM pass (although it still ends up in the spam folder, not sure why?)
However, when ...
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Rejecting Email with Postfix smtpd_sender_restrictions
I'm having some trouble blocking email sent with a particular "From" address. The email header looks like this:
From: "Levi Spammer" <lspammer@iamspammer.com>
My postfix ...
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How to set up postfix to relay outbound mail only?
I have a postfix/dovecot server in Linode. However many times my outgoing mail is being rejected because Linodes IP's are on blacklists.
To solve this issue I signed up to Amazon lightsail and created ...
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Mail sent to root never arrives
If I send emails with
echo "test" | mail -s "Test" myuser
echo "test" | mail -s "Test" root
/var/log/mail.log contains
Apr 7 16:30:30 ScotLX postfix/pickup[...
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Postfix: Getting a macro from ldap map and using it with an LDA
I want to use a mailbox defined in an ldap attribute. It's easy to resolve the mailbox from the email address with a simple query in an ldap map, but I can't figure out how to use that resulting ...
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Disable postfix from emailing sender
We email customers their voicemails from no-reply@our-domain.com. I see that Postfix is trying to send out a lot of emails to no-reply@our-domain.com. I assume this is either delivery reports or ...
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Send-only SMTP mail via postfix rejected by relayhost (550-Please turn on SMTP Authentication)
I want to configure a Centos 8 machine to send emails via an external SMTP relay. (I control the Centos box and have no control over the external relay).
I've read countless posts on how to set up ...
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How do you use the `postconf -Me ...` option?
I'm trying to use the postconf(1) command to add a new entry to the master.cf file like so:
$ sudo postconf -e -M 'submission/inet=private=n unpriv=- chroot=y wakeup=-
maxproc=-...
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Difference between smtpd_sender_restrictions and smtpd_recipient_restrictions
i've to block a sender of my mail server.
if i put the address in sender restriction:
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access,...
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postfix dovecot mysql - I can send mail, dont see any new mail
I'm trying to rebuild a debian based internet mail server running Postfix + Dovecot using mysql as a virtual mailbox backend. The server turned into confetti after an update broke a lot of things.
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Why would postfix/smtpd DNS lookup fail?
I am preparing a replacement for a 2 years old mail server — Postfix on Debian. The changes are:
amd64 → arm64
Debian 10.2 → 11.2
Postfix 3.4.7 → 3.5.6
The configuration stays the same.
When I try ...
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Dovecot - cannot move email out of inbox [closed]
Background ... I had an HDD go bad in an Ubuntu 20 server. I build an Ubuntu 20 server in a completely new machine, then moved as much as I could from the errored HDD to the brand new RAID.
Part of ...
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grep locks up after searching thru spool/postfix
I'm trying to search for a text string inside a file on my server, with the command:
grep -iRl "database_password" /
BUT! it seems to hang itself after going thru postfix directories.
This ...
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GMail woes: Error 550 5.7.1
I have a series of Inbound email servers and virtual domains that send out email via one smtp outbound server. We do absolutely no SPAMMING or Bulkmail of any kind.
outbound server is Centos 7, ...
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Rspamd Ratelimit doesn't work
I have set up my rspamd and redis server but the ratelimit doesn't work.
The Rspamd speaks to Postfix and my log file doesnt show anything unusual.
Even GTUBE works --> So, the spam protection ...
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Postfix under fedora 35 does not show mail configuration menu
Following this guide for Fedora 35: https://gist.github.com/raelgc/6031274
sudo yum install postfix
does not produce the following menu:
General type of mail configuration:
No configuration
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Upgraded Postfix and now seeing "discarding EHLO keywords: CHUNKING" in maillog
Upgraded Postfix to 3.5.8-2.el8 on RHEL 8.5 and started seeing below in /var/log/maillog:
postfix/smtpd[7575]: discarding EHLO keywords: CHUNKING
Reviewed main.cf and master.cf but can't see any ...
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Is there a way to get spamassassin to block spam with format
Recently I've started getting a lot of spam that is being sent to an MX backup server and then forwarded to my mail server. I think this started because I blocked the spammer IP addresses in the ...
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Whats the Interface between a Postfix server and a Mail Program?
I set up a postfix server and he works. I can send and get mails. As long as I send mails in bash over ssh on the server. But how do I send and get mails from a mail program e.g. Thunderbird.
I know ...
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"mail" command works while in a bash script, but command is not found when using it in the CLI
I have postfix installed in my Linux machine as a send-only mail server and works great when I use the "sendmail" command. Recently I created an executable bash script to run as a daemon and ...
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How can I prevent postfix from resending messages from its mailq when restoring from backup (can I delete them before restart?)
I'm running a small application server (raspberry pi) with a btrfs subvolume as its root filessystem. This server has a simple postfix running to catch mails sent by the application and deliver them ...
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Postfix cant fix open relay
postfix configuration:
~ # postconf -n | grep mynetworks
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mynetworks_style = host
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject
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Postfix - Exclude user from sending and receiving to-from some domains
In postfix or dovecot, it's possible exclude an user from sending and receiving mail to and from some domains by creating a rule that the user cannot deactivate?
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Dovecot - password query syntax error
Whenever Thunderbird attempts to connect to my server I receive an error in the maillog of
dovecot: auth-worker(32527): Error: sql(admin,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,): Password query failed: You have an error in ...
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postfix on centos 7 maildir delivery failed: create maildir file /home/testuser/Maildir/tmp/ : Permission denied
I'm trying to set up postfix on a centos 7 server. I've been following this toturial: https://netcorecloud.com/tutorials/install-centos-postfix/
Everything is looking correct and succesful, however I ...
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Roundcubemail - sending emails not working
I installed Roundcubemail from Github, version 1.4.8-complete (from this tutorial https://www.tecmint.com/setup-postfix-mail-server-in-ubuntu-debian/).
I can check my emails via roundcube (from /var/...
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Postfix 550 5.1.1 <usr@domain.tld>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table;
I want to have postfix relaying mail to my dovecot, which is running on the same host. My users are defined in dovecot's passwd file under /etc/dovecot/users like this:
usr@domain.tld:{PLAIN}pw.:10000:...
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Postfix Null Client Settings
I would like to set up a Postfix null client, i.e. a mail server that sends but does not receive emails, on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine. I spent days trying suggestions from tutorials, the Postfix ...
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During email delivery, how do MTA, MDA, POP/IMAP connect with each other?
I have already read Why use Dovecot AND Postfix/Sendmail?, Why use both Dovecot and Postfix?, Why use both Dovecot and Postfix? which give the general idea, but here I'm looking for more precise ...
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Postfix thinks its on a read only filesystem?
I want to run some analytics on my mail.log (postfix 3.2.13 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) including updating a db of undeliverable emails, so I wrote script, excluded mail.log from the generic /var/log ...
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Postfix error for office365: TLS library problem - wrong version number
I am trying to reconfigure a (currently working) debian 10 postfix configuration because we have moved to Office365 as SMTP server. The postfix mail configuration is only used for sending out mails ...
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Mailcow: mail for gmail.com loops back to myself
I have a dedicated server with Proxmox (previously with VMWare).
There is a VM with Mailcow-dockerized installed.
The interface on hypervisor vmbr0 is NATed (NAT on physical NIC with subnet 192.168....
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How to setup postfix authorization to allow only certain users in a particular FreeIPA group to send mail?
I have an ubuntu 20 mail server with Postfix. How can I do the following?
Use IPA for authentication to Postfix smtp server
Only allow accounts that are memberOf a particular group to send mail
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Postfix client configuration problem
I'm having an issue with a postfix relay, or more accurately a postfix client configuration.
I have a postfix relay that works just fine and 2 machines that uses that relay to send mail through an ...
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Postfix: sending outgoing mail through port 465/587 locally
I've got a mail server set up using postfix, dovecot, opendkim, and spamassassin. After a bit of hassle, I managed to get incoming mail working--I even set this account up using that server.
However, ...
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Prepend message body with warning text on Postfix?
Due to internal policy, we need to prepend each external mail message with some text like "This is external message, please be careful". We're with Postfix now, so seems I need some extra ...
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Postfix: 554 5.4.0 Error: too many hops
I've got a mail server set up using postfix, dovecot, opendkim, and spamassassin. After a bit of hassle, I managed to get incoming mail working--I even set this account up using that server. However, ...
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Postfix: "Relay access denied"
I've been trying to set up a mail server, with dovecot, postfix, opendkim, and spamassassin. After some hassle I managed to get incoming mail working (I signed up for this account with the email!). ...
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postfix : list of all email addresses accepted
I would like to know if there is a way, internal to postfix or external (script or other) allowing to know the complete list of all the valid email addresses accepted for reception of mail by a ...
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