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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Email alerts from VPS to Gmail
I am planning to fire up a VPS running Debian. I want it to send me email alerts.
However, I don't want to bother with a separate local email client on my machine; I use Gmail and that should be ...
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How to convert accented characters in an email
I want to send an email with the body ($BODY) containing accented characters like é, à, ô...
echo "$TO" | mail -s $SUBJECT $BODY
But the result shows unreadable characters.
I tried to ...
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mail: unrecognized option '-S' | sending mail from linux server
I am trying to run a bash to send emails from my linux server. I am using the following command:
echo "This is the message body" | mail -s "This is the subject line" -a "From: ...
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How to include a display name when sending mail with mailx
I'm sending email from a script using mailx. The script is run daily by systemd, using .service and .timer files. For testing purposes I'm sending from the command line.
The mail is sent with the ...
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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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Tagging mail with "notmuch" marks them as old
After syncing my local maildir inboxes with offlineimap and performing spam filtering and sorting using fdm+bogofilter, I tag the messages in the mail store using notmuch.
Up until recently, I used ...
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How can I make Exim mailserver doing faster retry after temporary DNS failure
We are running Exim4 mailserver version 4.90.1 on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS which is in DMZ and sends out emails from LAN out to the internet.
Sometimes (maybe a couple of mails per 24h of thousands ...
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How to make mail command to send email to root after installing msmtp?
Install a simple SMTP client:
sudo apt install msmtp msmtp-mda
Set in msmtprc
::
cat .msmtprc
account default
host smtp.qq.com
from [email protected]
auth on
tls on
tls_certcheck off
user [email protected]
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Pass Password-Manager for Aerc eMail-client
I use Aerc eMail-client on Archlinux.
I have an gmail-account, which I was setting up like this: https://oren.github.io/articles/text-based-gmail/. So I integrated the special password-App.
How can I ...
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Postfix delivers messages locally despite configuration for discovering external agent
A small node operates several web applications attached to a domain.
The same domain is used for mailboxes, hosted off site by a commercial service.
On the name server operated by the registrar, A, ...
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Script to send an alert mail once the disk space is above 90% sends disk full even when the disk isn't full, how to resolve this issue?
#!/bin/bash
df -m > myfile
server_ip_address=$(ip addr show $(ip route | awk '/default/ { print $5 }') | grep "inet" | head -n 1 | awk '/inet/ {print $2}' | cut -d'/' -f1)
if awk '$2 &...
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Postfix add header to outbound emails from a single host
Situation:
I’ve got an app that sends weekly emails to about 30 friends. I can’t modify the app. I want it to have a list-unsubscribe header. No other emails come from this IP to my mail server that ...
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Change mail from header in sendmail
We have two separate RTs (request trackers) configured on one server. They both are configured to send the emails through sendmail. We are trying to configure now SPF and DMARC records for these DNS ...
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Thunderbird does not honor the configured archive location if it's an IMAP folder on another account
I have my mail archives on a local IMAP server (to easily backup them and to not be dependent on a certain mail client)
If I configure another IMAP account to use a folder on this local IMAP account ...
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Service only listens on 127.0.0.1 port 1025. How do you allow any computer on your local network to communicate with this service?
Let me open by saying I have scoured the internet, even companies I purchased the software from and it's been 5 months!! So I am turning to the community as my eyes and brain are bleeding from reading ...
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