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The server configuration of email, including POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and popular server software packages that control email.

The server configuration of email, including POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and popular server software packages that control email.

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How do I get apt-get to ignore some dependencies?

How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies? For example, I wanted to install mailx so I can use it to send email from cron scripts/report-generating tools. However, installing mailx also installs exim4 and a whole bunch of dependencies (I…
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Postfix - how to retry delivery of mail in queue?

I have a backup mail server in case of a failure on the main one. In that case of failure, mails come on the backup server and stay there until the main one is back. If I wait some times, the delivery will be done automatically as soon as the main…
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Where does email sent to *@example.com go?

So I've wondered this for a long time. Where does email sent to *@example.com go? If I accidentally sent sensitive information to *@example.com would some evil person (potentially at the IANA) be able to retrieve it someday?
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Fighting Spam - What can I do as an: Email Administrator, Domain Owner, or User?

This is a Canonical Question about Fighting Spam. Also related: How to stop people from using my domain to send spam? What are SPF records, and how do I configure them? There are so many techniques and so much to know about fighting SPAM.…
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How to send emails and avoid them being classified as spam?

This is a canonical question about how to handle email sent from your server being misclassified as spam. For additional information you may find these similar questions helpful: Best Practices for preventing you from looking like a spammer…
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Do SPF Records For Primary Domain apply to subdomains?

I have a quick question regarding SPF records: Do they need to be present for all subdomains? Lets say that I have a TXT record with SPF info for domain.com Let's also say that I have a seperate email domain for subdomain.domain.com Will the SPF…
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how to fix "send-mail: Authorization failed 534 5.7.14 "

I am trying to create e-mail alert on ssh root login so I had to install ssmtp and mail utility. Then I configured ssmtp.conf file as follows : # Config file for sSMTP sendmail # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 # Make this empty to…
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How to send the output from a cronjob to multiple e-mail addresses?

In the beginning of a crontab file you could use the MAILTO instruction to indicate you want the output to be sent as an e-mail to an e-mail address. I would like to send the output to multiple addresses. Is it possible (and how) to specify multiple…
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Exchange server replacement that runs on Linux

I've worked as a sysadmin for some years and what I keep coming back to is that users like Microsoft Outlook and want to use its Exchange features. I have tried my fair share of commercial alternatives but usually there is either a fundamental…
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How should I setup separate MX records for a subdomain?

Let's say I have a domain that I run a web application on, for example cranketywidgets.com, and I'm using Google Apps for handling email for people working on that domain, for example, support@ cranketywidgets.com, jane@cranketywidgets.com,…
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How to Modify a Cronjob Email Subject

I am running a half dozen different cron jobs from my hosting at Hostmonster.com. When a cronjob has been executed I receive an email with the output of the script. The email comes in the format of: From: Cron Daemon Subject: Cron …
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What are SPF records, and how do I configure them?

This is a canonical question about setting up SPF records. I have an office with many computers that share a single external ip (I'm unsure if the address is static or dynamic). Each computer connects to our mail server via IMAP using outlook.…
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How to specify multiple included domains in SPF record?

Our business email is hosted on Google apps. In addition, our web server may also send email. Currently our SPF record in DNS looks like this: domain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a include:_spf.google.com -all" This is all fine, however now we've…
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How to get e-mail from (failed) cron-jobs in Ubuntu?

I create cron-jobs in Ubuntu by placing the executable in one of /etc/cron.{daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}. There are lots of directories starting with cron: kent@rat:~$ ls -ld /etc/cron* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-06 18:52…
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Need to add a "Wait" command to a Powershell script

Here is my current code: Write-output “ENTER THE FOLLOWING DETAILS - When Creating Multiple New Accounts Go to EMC hit F5(refresh) and make sure previous new account is listed before proceeding to the next one” $DName = Read-Host…
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