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ssmtp using elasticemail.com:2525 looks like it sends OK but email never arrives
OS: xUbuntu 22.04
I am trying to setup the ability to send emails from the cli (and once successful, use for cron jobs and scripts).
Although the majority of help out there is for setting up smtp....
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Are e-mails to localhost logged with sSMTP?
I don't suppose that sSMTP will work for just sending mail on the localhost?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo cat /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
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# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
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# The person who ...
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how to test HELO/EHLO email error with Gmail using sSMTP?
As SSMTP doesn't run as a daemon per se, how do you test that it's working?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: ...
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Fix postfix/dovecot to accept local connections on the same VM-host
I have a root-server with some VMS. 10.77.77.101 is the mail server and 10.77.77.107 (vm07) is a PHP webserver running Wordpress. Sending and receiving mails with Thunderbird works fine. Sending mails ...
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Where are these "extra" RCPT_TO lines coming from when I send an email via SSMTP?
I've been using SSTMP on a local FreeBSD machine to send stuff like the output of certain cron jobs to my "real" main email account, which is not hosted on the same machine (or even domain). ...
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Which domain is HELO checked against with rDNS? Mail server's domain, even if different from the sender's domain? Or the email sender's domain?
I run a small webserver that hosts a handful of domains which I use for personal and testing purposes. I want to set it up as a mail server as well, and I'm trying to understand the rDNS lookup that ...
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crontab error - SSMTP - 553 5.7.1 Sender address rejected: not owned by user
As root, I installed ssmtp and I configured the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf as follows:
# Sender email address
[email protected]
# Destination SMTP server and port
mailhub=mail.domain.com:587
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How can I identify what process is sending emails?
My email service provider has informed me that I keep hitting my daily SMTP quota limit and has identified one of my servers as sending email from a root account.
I've disabled any cronjobs that were ...
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"Unable to set AuthPassword" ssmtp
I am setting up smtp to sent mails via terminal and getting "non-zero" status.
In my log files there is a log about "Unable to set AuthPassword"
password contains characters and ...
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Raspian - emails won't send in postfix
Context: I'm working with my raspberry pie in my local private network. I just want to be able to let cron send me emails, but instead I get this following error from sending my last email. To see ...
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mail: Can't send message: process exited with a non-zero status
Any idea why it is not sending mail for me? Am I missing something? I tried a few articles and it seems like I have done everything correctly; so I am a bit stuck on this?
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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Simplest way to send mail with image attachment from command line using gmail?
Building on the previous post where the requirement was to have cron jobs send status messages via a single command line, as posted here:
Simplest way to send one-line mail out via command line using ...
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SSMTP: How to send email with both a body and attachment
I am currently using the following command to send emails from my Ubuntu server, which I adapted from this question's answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/90881/166614
printf "subject: the ...
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Tell guest OS to use my dockerized mail server to send email
I have postfix running in a Docker container.
A cronjob try to send email, but reply
“(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)” error in the syslog
According to this link, the solution is ...
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Does SSMTP cause spam issues?
I am currently using SSMTP to send email notifications from my Icinga server.
I am using my web host's STMP server to send the mail, with working authentication details [ eg [email protected] ]
When ...
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