Questions tagged [postfix]
Free and open source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers email. When asking about postfix problem, please include the relevant maillog lines and output of the following command: `postconf -n` (non-default content of main.cf) and `postconf -M` (content of master.cf)
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postfix send double mail when mail is forwarded
postfix will forward two mail to user when i configure autoreply, sender_bcc and always_bcc.
i have used postfix with dovecot and mysql for virtual user configuration. i dont found where is the ...
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Postfix can't read ~/.forward files
I have a highly customized home-directory structure which restricts access as follows:
The server hosts a number of subdomains, which are grouped into seven "zones"
Home directories are /home/zone/...
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how to migrate mail from argosoft to postfix/dovecot
Any ideas on what a migration strategy might be to sanely migrate mail away from the Argosoft mail server for windows? product site: http://www.argosoft.com/RootPages/MailServer/Default.aspx (note: ...
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I have configured a postfix mailserver on Linux with dovecot. Now problem is when I configure autoreply it reply two mail to sender
I have configured a postfix mailserver on Linux with dovecot. Now the problem is when I configure autoreply it replies with two mails to the sender. I have used vacation.pl, a Perl script of postfix ...
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Spam prevention tips for Postfix [duplicate]
Without using SpamAssasin, or similar, what are your best tips for preventing spam.
Please try and provide config examples :D
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Postfix local delivery rewriting address so that it is not deliverable
I have a basic Ubuntu Server 9.04 install with Postfix freshly installed via apt-get. When I do a
sendmail -bv [email protected]
where vlewis is a unix account.
The delivery report I get says ...
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Any up to date tutorial on how to setup Postfix + Dovecot with virtual users on Debian? [closed]
Any up to date tutorial (for dummys) on how to setup Postfix + Dovecot with virtual users on Debian?
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CentOS/Dovecot/Postfix server doesn't allow external email clients to send email ANYMORE
I've been running a CentOS/Dovecot/Postfix box as an email server for a while with no complications.
A few weeks ago users stopped being able to send emails through external clients. They can read an ...
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Optimal settings for Postfix and optimizing a custom delivery script on a VPS
So I have Postfix + saslauthd + Courier-IMAP deployed on a Linode 1080 VPS. We are a small company, we have around 30 accounts (I use physical *nix users for the sake of convenience + Maildirs, see ...
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How to fix mail server SSL?
Our mail server was originally set up using self-created certificates. However when those expired, and I tried to recreate them, the whole thing just blew up. Since I know it will be important, we are ...
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Run SpamAssassin on virtual_alias in Postfix
Ever since I started using Postfix virtual_alias_maps to forward all my email to gmail, I'm getting a ton more spam than when I delivered the mail locally and used SpamAssassin/spamd to filter it. I'...
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postfix: Host or domain name not found for name=comcast.net Type=A: Host found but no data record of requested type [closed]
I have set up an ISPConfig server to host email for several domains and I am having a problem with mail sent from this server not being delivered to some, but not all, valid domains.
When mail is ...
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setting up a dedicated mail server
We have three dedicated servers:
One is a Windows web hosting server
One is a Redhat server, intended for mail
One is a MySQL database server
On the Windows web server, we do not have the SMTP ...
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postfix maildir with custom path
I need to have postfix store mail in a maildir in /var/mail/<DOMAIN>/<USER>. I've got
mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
and I'm preparing
home_mailbox =
but I don't know where to go ...
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Setting up a postfix email server
When I set up an email server using postfix on ubuntu server, how do I make sure that it won't be an open relay??
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Where can I find tuning resources for postfix, saslauthd and courier [closed]
I just deployed postfix, saslauthd, courier to a starter VPS box running Ubuntu 8.04 with with 512MB of memory. Most of the memory is now being eaten up by these processes.
I do plan to upgrade to a ...
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Does postfix virtual domain accept wildcards?
Can I set up a virtual domain on one box so that a few specific email addresses get forwarded to gmail, and everything else (using a wildcard) goes to another system I control? For example, can I ...
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What is the best open-source email solution package
I need to set up a mail server on an Ubuntu Linux box. Instead of starting from scratch I'm looking for an all in one package, like a bundle that offers a complete but minimal and light weight ...
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How do I relay mails to another machine with Postfix?
How do I set up my colo box to relay email for my domain (xcski.com) to my home box? Both are currently running postfix, and currently the colo box receives email for a bunch of domains and my home ...
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Configuring Postfix to not use a daemon
I realize this is wildly offtopic but this is my last hope. I would like to only send mail from my computer, both locally and to remote servers, so I don't think I need postfix to run a daemon, but I ...
