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send mail with empty from header field
I'd like to send a mail using mailutils on Debian 12, but without or with a empty FROM field. In my Proxmox mail gateway there are sporadic mails without a from field. I've created a rule to replace ...
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How to get a daily report of the exit codes of cron jobs
I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups.
I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails.
I don't want to receive an email for every ...
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Untainting an exim4 configuration when upgrading to Debian 11
I'm aware that this question has been asked a few times before, but I've been unable to work the solutions to other people's problems into my own exim configuration successfully. I end up with a ...
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How to configure Linux (debian 11) as an SMTP Gateway with authentication
Hope you are all having a good friday.
The situation is - I have a local MS Exchange Server, which currently has a windows based server in the cloud that I'm using as an SMTP relay - it works great ...
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Postfix rejecting outgoing emails because of "Relay access denied." | "generic_checks: name=reject_unauth_destination status=2"
I am currently rolling out a Postfix/Dovecot configuration on our servers to replace our monolithic mail server.
On the test enviroment I have everything set up and it worked there. Now I am rolling ...
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reading system mails in debian buster
after today update from thunderbird
thunderbird --version
Thunderbird 91.5.0
I missed my local unix account for system-mails like from apt-listchanges. It seems it is dropped.
I know I can read it ...
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Unattended upgrades calls my machine "localhost" instead of its hostname
On some of my machines, unattended upgrades sends an email to tell me a reboot is required, and says:
[reboot required] unattended-upgrades result for localhost: SUCCESS
While on others, it specifies ...
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Help unsubscribing from Debian mailing lists [closed]
Apologies if this is not the right place to ask.
My email address is "[email protected]", but I subscribed (to several Debian mailing lists) with the email "[email protected]" (I'...
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claws mail how to get system mails over exim4
OS = debian stretch mate desktop with
claws-mail --version
Claws Mail version 3.14.1
Is there a way to create an account for system mails so I can get them in claws-mail (like for apt-listchanges) ...
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strip display name when sending email
I'm running dovecot 2.2.27 with postfix 3.1.15.
I'm not sure how to articulate what I want clearly. When I send an email from my email server, the recipient can see my display name that I can set ...
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Alpine asking to accept self signed certificate
I've just installed Alpine on my Debian box and transferred my configuration over from my Ubuntu machine. The configuration works perfectly on my Ubuntu machine but on the Debian box I get an error ...
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Can unattended-upgrades send a test email?
I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why running unattended-upgrade wouldn't result in an email in my inbox, only for one to turn up this morning.
Is there a way to help debugging a new ...
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Desktop Environment - Linking a webmail address as the 'preferred email application'
In the desktop environment I can choose any of a number of installed email clients the 'preferred application' to read and send email, by linking the clients associated executable file.
Is there a ...
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Complete setup of Exim4 as SMTP to reach most inboxes as possible (correct configuration)
I have over the last days tried to setup Exim4 to handle all mails sent from a web application.
It seems to be working, but I haven't found out how to hardcode the hostname which will be sent with ...
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Google Earth: Unix email
mailto: .. attach= is not working for firefox nor chrome, so can't email a .klm file from Google Earth?
I love having Google Earth on Debian, but when I try to email a .klm view file using File | ...
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