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 sent to root with att.net email provider and thunderbird mua on fedora 40
I have fedora 40. I use thunderbird to receive email. I would like to receive email sent to root in thunderbird. The "account settings" section of thunderbird used to have "Add ...
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mail server migration tools
We have zimbra as mail server with an old ubuntu in our company.
I decided to install a clean Debian or FreeBSD with a Postfix+Dovecot and other needed tools such as OpenDKIM and other tools.
We have ...
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How do I use SSL and SASL for dovecot sieve autoreplies?
Dovecot's sieve can send its autoreplies via another SMTP server. But I can't find in the documentation anywhere how to configure authentication and certificates/ssl for this connection.
Currently my ...
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Setting up Linux Mail Server with SpamAssassin: How to Receive Emails and Retrieve Spam Scores Programmatically?
I'm looking to set up a mail server on Linux that can receive emails, analyze them using SpamAssassin, and then return the spam score results. My goal is to integrate this into an application where I ...
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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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How to Create a PTR Record for AWS Mailserver's Elastic IP Address
I configured an SMTP server (Postfix) on an AWS instance. However, as a defense against spam most well-managed emailservers will reject messages sent from any host whose IP does not resolve back to ...
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How to set absolute postfix Maildir NOT within home directory ? mail_spool_directory does not work
I have installed Postfix from source in the top level directory /srv/mail/.
I edit the main.cf file and add:
home_mailbox = mail/
When I then send a mail with:
sendmail -t localuser@localhost
> My ...
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export/convert emails (.eml files) to plain text
So I have an ancient archive of emails and I want to combine them into one big happy text file, can that be done? I notice when I view an email and cut and paste the content I get exactly what I want ...
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mutt: Delay in emails delivery
It is the first time I am sending emails from Bash. For a test I have sent about 80 emails with mutt to (and from) my GMail address. Not all emails have been delivered in the 24 hours following me ...
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Cannot open an .mbox file with neomutt (although it works with mutt)
Cannot open an .mbox file with mutt
I want to open a 10GB .mbox file that I downloaded from my gmail account. When I use the command
neomutt -f 10GB_mboxfile.mbox
neomutt takes 10-20 seconds to open ...
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Different format in .mbox and email saved locally with mutt: convert split .mbox file into the same format as mutt?
I am trying to move to mutt for mail client and am trying to have email localy. I have 2 sources of saved email:
the first one was obtained from the .mbox file form google: I wrote a script which ...
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Sendmail issues "530 Authentication required" error message when authinfo is supplied
sender_email - email address that does not exist, but must be used as FROM address, because receiver host rejects emails from other emails.
receiver_email - email that is supposed to receive the sent ...
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Where to find textstring in Linux/Dovecot
I have installed the iRedMail email server script on an Ubuntu 22.04
with Nginx.
Now, when I create a new email account,
the user gets an email when he logs in the first time.
It’s a welcome email ...
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How to configure postfix to pipe all incoming email to a script using Plesk?
Basically, I'd like the same functionality as in this question. I only run into the issue that whenever I add
transport_maps = hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/transport, hash:/etc/postfix/transport
to ...
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How to set mail subject using variable and ensure attachment is not included in email body
I have the following shell script fragment.
var_name='ZZPCI'
for emailadd in `cat /tmp/email_list.tmp`
do
subject_text="Subject with Var Name "$var_name
subj_text_novar="Subject without Var ...
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