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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Organize Email by Date Using procmail or maildrop
I would like to organize all incoming email into the following directory structure based on the date of the email:
ROOT --+-- YYYYMMDD --+-- HH --+-- mm --+-- YYYYMMDD-HHmmSS-000001
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What is the MIME equivalent of uuencode for sendmail?
e.g., I've got files I want to send by sendmail but the receiving mailbox (for posting pictures to my blog) will not accept uuencode files a la
$uuencode file | sendmail user@domain
I'm guessing it'...
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Evolution Check mail when Window is closed
In Ubuntu/Gnome under the mail icon in the tray, there are chat, mail, and broadcast. opening the chat logs into your IM accounts and keeps you logged in when closing the main window. But it appears ...
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Changing SMTP authentication in mutt based on From e-mail address
I use mutt as my e-mail reader, and nbSMTP as my SMTP client. I check e-mail from a half dozen accounts and sort them into miscellaneous folders in my maildir. Some of the folders are account-specific,...
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Best way to handle lots of mail on server?
Due to some bad cron jobs I now have ~1600 mail messages, most of them containing the same error log. I would like to quickly group them by subject and delete them, while limiting the chances of ...
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Evolution and Exchange Server 2007 without MAPI
My organization is running an exchange server 2007 with MAPI disabled for security reasons. How do I connect with evolution? When I connect using the Microsoft Exchange option I get the error
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set up email addresses that aren't attached to a user
I need to set up a lot of email addresses on a Linux machine, but I don't want to create a new user account for each one.
The mail can stored in a regular maildir or mbox. (I'll be checking the mail ...
Justin
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How to remove "You have mail" welcome message
When I open up my terminal it says "you have mail", anyone has any idea of why? I am running OS X, but since it too is based on Unix and relies on files such as bashrc, bash_profile etc. I thought ...
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How to set up local mail retrieval and delivery?
$ mail
No mail for lazer
$
I am able to send mails using mail.
I have unread mails in my inbox as I can see in Outlook.
Why doesn't mail show me my mails? How can I make mail fetch them?
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How can I customize new mail notification in alpine?
I use alpine as my primary mail reader. While I spend most of my day in the terminal or Emacs, it would still be nice to get pretty notification of new mail using notify-bin. Is there any way I can ...
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Lightweight outgoing SMTP server
What do you use as a lightweight SMTP for outgoing e-mails only?
I am running an app that sends e-mails via SMTP when events occur once in a while, and I don't need a fully featured e-mail server.
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X-based email for reading mail from cron jobs
Can anyone give a recommendation for a simple X-based equivalent of mail / mailx for reading the mail I get from cron jobs?
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