Questions tagged [email]
Sending, receiving, reading, composing, sorting, and generally working with email. For the mail(1) command line utility, see the tag /mail-command.
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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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Where does fetchmail store e-mails?
Having removed procmail, am looking for where fetchmail is storing messages:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ tail -f /var/log/fetchmail.log
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX ...
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What username, server and port are specified for IMAP with Gmail using getmail?
Looking at github and trying to use their example config file:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ cat .config/getmail/getmail
[options]
verbose = 1
delete = false
message_log = ~/.getmail/log
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How to read All Mail on IMAP Gmail with the Alpine / Pine e-mail client?
How is the "Incoming-Folders Collection" made to include the "all mail" IMAP folder?
Currently, the ".pinerc" has the inbox as:
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={...
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Split messages from one inbox to another 2 inboxes based on content
is there a way via Postfix and or procmail for example or another software to forward e-mails from one inbox to another 2 inboxes where each message goes either to one inbox or the other based on ...
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In sieve, how can I copy a message to another user's mailbox on the same server without re-sending it externally?
I am using sieve to filter email in our IMAP server (Cyrus imapd). I have basic knowledge of how this works and have made a few simple sieve scripts that behave as expected so far. To attach those ...
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How to set the X-Google-Original-From header in Alpine (Pine) email?
Why the random down-vote? At least say what the problem with the question is.
I'm using Gmail and Alpine for e-mail with IMAP. Mail sent from Alpine has this field:
X-Google-Original-From: foo <...
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How to backup Thunderbird to mbox for use with the Pine or Alpine e-mail client?
How should the mbox backup from Thunderbird show? Perhaps there's a validation tool?
First screen:
ALPINE 2.25 FOLDER LIST ...
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How to configure Thunderbird for local offline usage?
How would Thunderbird send such a message?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ swaks --to [email protected] --from [email protected] --server localhost
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Force Postfix' /usr/sbin/sendmail to use SMTP
I have written a tool in PHP (on Linux) sendmail mails via mail() (unfortuenately PHPMailer is not an option due do missing support for some required stuff).
PHP ignores all SMTP settings on linux so ...
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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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Save all attachments of all tagged messages with mutt
I have around 100 messages in a mailbox in mutt, each of which has an attachment. (These are scanned documents sent by a printer.) I would like to save all attachments of all these messages in a ...
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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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do not send local mails to relay
We have an issue on linux servers sending local mails to the smart relay.
every time a cron job runs, and an email is sent to root. it is send to the relay instead of being delivered locally in /var/...
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