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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Can I set up system mail to use an external SMTP server?
Is it possible to set up system mail on a linux box to be sent via a different smtp server - maybe even with authentication? If so, how do I do this?
If that's unclear, let give an example. If I'm at ...
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How do I completely silence a cronjob to /dev/null/?
On my Ubuntu-Desktop and on my debian-server I have a script which needs to be executed each minute (a script that calls the minute-tic of my space online browsergame).
The problem is that on ...
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Can I change root's email address or forward it to an external address?
I'm getting a lot of mail in my root user's mail account. This appears to be mostly reports and errors from things like cron scripts. I'm trying to work though and solve these things, possibly even ...
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How do I send HTML email using linux 'mail' command?
mail -s "subject" [email protected] <test.html
works, but only for plain text email.
What is the correct way to send HTML email using the Linux command mail?
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Is there a program that can send me a notification e-mail when a process finishes?
I am a computational scientist, and I run a lot of lengthy calculations on Linux. Specifically, I run molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the GROMACS package. These simulations can take days ...
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Understanding /etc/aliases and what it does
This is the contents of the file /etc/aliases on my Debian (Wheezy) server, as it is:
# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
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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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Gmail blocking mutt
When I try to log in to gmail with mutt, it flashes a quick Webalert with a url, something like accounts.gmail.com or something. It's too quick for me to see or copy it. Then it says Login failed.
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postfix/smtpd: warning: connect to Milter service unix:/var/run/opendkim/opendkim.sock: No such file or directory
I have problem with postfix on debian after upgrading from squeeze to wheezy.
Postfix was configured to sign messages using dkim-filter. Before update, everything was working flawlessly, now it fails ...
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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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Are there any alternatives to Mutt?
I really like the idea of Mutt, reading mail in the terminal. I'm not really pleased with some inconsistencies and the IMAP handling. I set about trying to find some alternatives to Mutt, but I can't ...
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Where does postfix store email?
I can't find any documentation on how postfix stores email. Where is it stored, and in what format? I'm using Ubuntu server 11
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Search for mail content with Mutt
Is it possible in Mutt to search for specific mail content using built-in functionality? Or, as a last resort, how can I configure grep to be used in Mutt?
The documentation only mentions the search ...
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mail: cannot send message: process exited with a non-zero status
I've had a cronjob working for about a fortnight without any problems.
Then last night I checked I didn't get the email that I usually get.
I went to the terminal to try send myself an email, I got ...
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Can sendmail include an attachment?
Is it possible to include an attachment with sendmail? I am generating the following emailfile.eml files with the following layout
From: Company Name <[email protected]>
To: recipient@...
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