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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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I need to add a new account to Outlook. This account belongs to a postfixmailserver. For POP settings, I set port number 110 for incoming and port number 25 for outgoing mail. As the server doesn't ...
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PostfixAdmin installed successfully. To test whether internal sending and receiving mail work, I used SMTP to send mail: telnet mail.example.com 25 Trying 94.284.174.110... Connected to mail.example....
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I installed the Postfix mail server and was able to send and receive emails. After installing Postfixadmin, everything was working fine. However, when testing it via the command line, I encountered ...
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I have set up successfully an email server with Postfix and Dovecot. I also have succcessfully integrated Dovecot authentication with Microsoft AD. This is, Dovecot queries AD when a user creates or ...
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Is there a good method to convert a mail directory in MH format (as it is used by Claws) to an mbox directory, as it is used by Thunderbird?
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How do hooks work? Is it possible to use them to change the saved copy of the letter on the mail server (for example, to delete attachments)? For example, to use account-hook and replace the sent ...
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I send emails from the terminal with mutt -s "This is Subject" -a a.txt -- [email protected] < test.txt. The a.txt attachments can be large, how can I avoid filling up the mail server? ...
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I need to send a letter from Linux terminal to the recipient's mailing address. I want the fact of sending the letter, its title and its text to be saved in the sent section of my mailbox (the mailbox ...
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This might question might not have a 'legal' answer but I'll ask it anyway. My dad is 15 year dead but I still have the disk out of his old Windows computer. It seems my sister want's me to try to dig ...
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I both domain and Im setting up Hestia at my VPS but after I setup SMTP Relay to be at brevo. SMTP relay at Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a service that allows me to send emails through their servers ...
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I am trying to set up a mailserver using OpenSMTPD. My configuration is: listen on enp4s0f2 action "save" maildir "/mail/%{rcpt}" match for rcpt-to regex ".*" action &...
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For brevity I talk about PGP, but GnuPG or OpenPGP are meant as well and gpg is the OpenPGP encryption and signing tool for it. When initially establishing an email connection with someone, both ...
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Since I changed from mbox to Maildir format, mutt/neomutt does not save sent email in ~/.muttrc I have et mbox_type=Maildir set folder="~/Maildir" set mask="!^\\.[^.]" set mbox=...
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I am in the process of finally switching my main machine over to Linux. One of the last items I am still urgently trying to solve is to find an email client that is capable of taking advantage of the ...
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I'm currently using aerc and I have an email that I postponed yesterday, which was then saved into the Drafts folder. Now, I want to continue writing this email, but when I go into the Drafts folder, ...
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The situation is a Raspberry Pi which is hosting several services. Sometimes, a service may fail, then I need to send an alert to my desktop. I have done many web searches, most of the results talk ...
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i am running what seems to be Mutt 1.9.4 (2018-02-28). And the problem is that I cannot obtain full header information for incoming emails. the h just provides an additional Mime-Version: 1.0 and ...
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I have a script that syncronizes folders. The script does /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete $SOURCE $DEST >> $LOG_FILE 2>> $ERR_LOG_FILE so it redirects output to LOG_FILE and error output to ...
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This may be a strange question. I use webmail because of its convenience, and to avoid my storage to become full I export emails into .EML files before deleting them from the webmail. So I have a ...
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I've Thunderbird 115.13.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and I have my email which is configured properly automatically by Thunderbird for IMAP and SMTP servers from Microsoft outlook office 365. However, now it has ...
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So I have a Solaris 11 server with mailx. I am trying to send emails to distribution lists in the company's Outlook (which is not running on this server, it runs on Microsoft's cloud). I am able to ...
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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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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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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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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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Have tried using postfix and claws-mail to accomplish the objective. Failed. I am missing crucial information. Assuming that the ISP I am subscribed to doesn't provide email services or servers for ...
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My Requirements I have two email servers, james and winmail. They hold same users, for example, account [email protected] exists both in james and winmail. When someone sends a email to [email protected], I ...
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update: screenshot added showing the original message Forwarded in a new email. Replying to this message only copies the spam report into the reply. I don't know how I would reply to a false-positive (...
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What am I missing... Given: Linux-stack based email server system (hosted) with webmail component. Various email clients and other webmail systems involved and tested with this. We are distributing ...
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I'd like to send a mail using mailutils on Debian 12, but without or with a empty FROM field. In my Proxmox mail gateway there are sporadic mails without a from field. I've created a rule to replace ...
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The situation I have the following ~/.fetchmailrc poll pop.gmail.com protocol pop3 user "[email protected]" password "***" ssl mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d ...
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Will it be legal if I use the DuckDuckGo search engine without Creating a DuckDuckGo Email Protection account? Or Can I use the DuckDuckGo search engine without Creating a DuckDuckGo Email ...
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I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups. I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails. I don't want to receive an email for every ...
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I try to get postfix and dovecot up and running. I have a little problem with the mail-box path that connects both. Postfix virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail virtual_mailbox_domains = mydom.org ...
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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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I am succeeding rewriting my subject line to have a [LIST] prepended to it: :0fhw * ^TO_[^<>@ ]+@example\.com\> * ^Subject:\/.+ | /usr/local/bin/formail -I"Subject: [LIST]$MATCH" ...
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I'm creating a script to receive an email every time someone connects/logs in via SSH to my Linux server. The script is already working, but my issue is with sending the email. I'm using the following ...
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I am contemplating setting up an email server, but concerned that the ISP will block port 25. It would be nice to know that port 25 is / is not open before going through the effort to setup the email ...
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Looking to manually save quantities of e-mail in batches so that they're deleted and expunged from Gmail to free up space. From Alpine the error message received is: [No messages expunged from folder ...
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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 # # Config file for sSMTP sendmail # # The person who ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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