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How can I make GNU mailutils to use an external SMTP server?
Does anybody on this planet know what the equivalent GNU mailutils command to the following looks like?
Is this even possible without a local MTA with mailutils?
Using s-nail it works as intended.
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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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replace MTA with something not email related
What I try to achieve is to send all my server logs, errors, crontab outputs etc. with something like telegram or signal. I am locking for a MTA with can handle a different backend and is still ...
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Why is the email sending process not symmetric with the receiving process?
Reading https://ccm.net/contents/116-how-email-works-mta-mda-mua and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_agent_(infrastructure),
I wonder why the email sending process is not symmetric with the ...
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Exim4 and root aliases? Send a copy to root?
When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email ...
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Why does cron use MTA to send emails, while we use MUA to send emails?
I have looked at the definitions of MTA, MUA, MDA, for example, https://ccm.net/contents/116-how-email-works-mta-mda-mua and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_agent_(infrastructure)
In Lubuntu, the ...
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postfix + procmail -- process serially, not in parallel
Trying to design a system that can filter incoming email messages from a syslog server. Need to drop if they appear to be duplicates (throttle them). Procmail pipes them to a perl script for ...
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How to encrypt Postfix emails with SSL
I have 2 domains registered and MX records set up and pointing at the same server. The output from this tool https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx is
10 mail.mydomain.club IP 5 min
10 mail....
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What Mail Transfer Agents is PHP using?
I'm trying to diagnose a problem with certain email addresses possibly being blocked on my server. I'm running PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.7. The php.ini file lists a sendmail_path of /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i,...
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msmtp Empty TO and FROM Field - All mail ends up in Bulk Mail when sent from CLI or manually
I have set up MSMTP with the following but if I send an e-mail from the CLI it either gets blocked, or ends up in my SPAM because it has no TO/FROM or anything up top. But e-mails from CRON are ...
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nullmailer: Sending failed: Could not exec program
I'm trying to set up nullmailer with Google Apps. I think I have properly configured Google Apps and /etc/nullmailer/remotes, but somehow I'm getting this error
Sending failed: Could not exec ...
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What should I configure to send mail on the command line?
I am working in the computer at home I want to send me an email and I tried:
uuencode all.sh all.sh | mail [email protected]
But the problem is that nothing arrive to my email, I just get the ...
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Examples of (not recommendations for) Message Submission Agent (MSA) software
From the Wikipedia articles email and email agent, I gather that there exist software packages known as message submission agents (aka mail submission agents).
The Wikipedia article on message ...
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MTA with local delivery and per user smarthost
I have some problems choosing and configuring an MTA for my desktop system.
Some tools like apt-listchanges or cron rely on local mail delivery and I think having local mail delivery available is a ...
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Email generated with Python stuck in mailq, times out (Debian)
I want to send emails out, originating from my Debian computer. I do NOT want the emails to originate from my gmail account, like in most Python smtplib examples.
I called my ISP regarding port 25, ...
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