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SMTP is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the most recent standard of which is defined in RFC 5321. It's the Internet standard for sending and receiving email.

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Warning: you may need to increase the main.cf smtp_destination_concurrency_limit - but it is set?

We have a huge delivery of emails right now and emails are not delivered as fast as I think they would: In the mail log (Postfix v3.4.13 ) I see the following message Dec 8 14:34:28 s29 postfix/qmgr[...
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Is opening SMTP port with default Sendmail config safe?

My self-hosted web app (Ubuntu VPS) needs the ability to send noreply@ notifications to users when something goes wrong. I don't really need the ability to receive emails but I would like to comply ...
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Can I generate and log output alerts for SMTP traffic using Suricata 7.0.2?

I have Suricata 7.0.2 IDS installed on a Linux Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine. In my virtual environment, I have two virtual networks. In the first network, I have a mail user agent (Attacker) that ...
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PAM failing to authenticate all users from one domain in dovecot

I have installed a mail server using Dovecot + Postfix, and it always worked correctly. Recently I installed a new domain example.com and a user [email protected] for that domain in the mailserver ...
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mailpit / kubernetes: SMTP sendmail cannot connect - telnet works fine

kuberntes setup: mailpit service + deployment (ingress works, I can connect to the UI) --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: desideria-crm-mailpit namespace: desideria-crm labels: ...
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Can not setup postfix/dovecot with email clients

Having problems with configure postfix/dovecot with email clients such as outlook and thunderbird. Using telnet and openssl I have tested both smtp and imap through ports 587 and 993. Sent mails are ...
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Setting up Windows Server 2019 to allow sending mail in Classic ASP/PHP

I'm working on migrating over to a new server and I'm trying to setup the server to allow PHP/Classic ASP to send emails from forms etc.. I followed these instructions and used the IP 127.0.0.1 where ...
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Email rejected by SMTP server

I am sending automatic emails with a custom written software. The recipient is VERY interested in receiving these emails, since they actively requested then. However, they are complaining they are not ...
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Rewriting message header To: field when sending email

I am configuring an SMTP server with Postfix (v3.7.3) for local (i.e. host only) mail sending on openSUSE 15.5 Leap. What I would like is to send messages to local "users" (there is no real ...
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stunnel smtp tls frontend server/proxy for remote backend postfix

I'm running stunnel in server mode and listening on port 587 and trying to connect to a remote postfix server running on port 25. NB: the two servers are connected via zerortier, which may or may not ...
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Can I Force Implicit TLS Connection For Port 587 On Postfix?

I have read many articles saying port 587 by default is explicit TLS. This means it's STARTTLS. It asks the server on an unsecured connection if TLS is supported and if it is, it continues with an ...
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Wrap plain text mail in html

we use Postfix as MTA to send our mails from our system. Unfortunately we have an old persistent system which we cannot change, which sends mails to our customers in plain text format. I would like to ...
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Exchange Online ESMTP responds differently from different clients - Windows 10 vs Windows Server 2019

When I telnet to our Exchange Online's SMTP server address (****.mail.protection.outlook.com, port 25) I get two different responses or types of connect depending on what machine I'm using. When I ...
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Postfix: How can I handle incoming mail for a single address, not the entire domain?

I've gotten my employer to configure the company-wide Exchange server to forward [email protected] to [email protected], a host I control. So far, so good. My Postfix configuration ...
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Postfix relay to Office 365 - DNS configuration

To reduce the likeliness of email being flagged as SPAM, I believe these are the few things that should be done on email servers: Hostname resolves to a valid IP e.g. mail.example.com to 1.1.1.1 ...
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