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Questions tagged [gmail]
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Gmail SPF fail based on client IP
Gmail is failing SPF check based on the client IP. These are the relevant headers:
Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of johndoe@example.com does not designate 164.77.240.58 as permitted sender) client-ip=164.77.240.58;
Received: from johndoe…
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Why is my email failing Gmail's DKIM test?
I have a message that was rejected by Gmail, I don't know why. It passes SPF. We aren't using DKIM. Do I need to set up DKIM?
I am in control of "example.com". Our mail server is "server.example.com" (hosted at bluehost)
Our SPF record is
v=spf1 +a…
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nielsbot
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postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied
I'm configuring Postfix to use external smtp. For this, I used this tutorial
After following it, I found in the logs that /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db couldn't be read. The file didn't exist. I used postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd…
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Using gmail as your primary mail server
I have read that there is an option of using Gmail as your primary mail server. In the sense that you can add mx records etc and you do not have to do it on your own server.
Do you think this is a recommended setup in terms of security. Will Gmail…
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Saif Bechan
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Why does DMARC operate on the From-address, and not the envelope sender (Return-Path)?
Several emails sent from my webserver to a Gmail address, where the From: address is websitevisitor@gmail.com, have been marked as spam by Gmail. The From: field is populated from form data, and corresponds to the visitor's actual email address,…
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SPF + DKIM + DMARC with Gmail account and external mail server
I,m using gmail with own domain (Google Apps) for my project. Now I want to add external mail server for sending notifications for users. Gmail doesn't give private keys for DKIM and if keys will be generated on external mail server, in case strict…
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Gmail does not accept mail from a new server
I am setting up a new server and discovered that Gmail does not accept emails from this server.
I checked Exim logfiles and found the following:
Our system has detected that this\n550-5.7.1 message does not meet IPv6 sending guidelines regarding PTR…
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Can you configure MS Exchange to support the gmail "+keyword" trick?
Gmail allows users to create custom email addresses on the fly by appending "+keyword" to their email address.
So, "myaddy@gmail.com" and "myaddy+something@gmail.com" & "myaddy+somethingelse@gmail.com" all point at the same account…
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Configure Postfix to send/relay emails Gmail (smtp.gmail.com) via port 587
Using Centos 5.4, with Postfix. I can do a
mail foo@gmail.com
subject: blah
test
.
Cc:
and the msg gets sent to gmail, but it resides in the spam folder, which is to be expected.
My goal is to be able to generate email msgs, and to have them…
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tom smith
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Postfix - gmail encryption
My server is running on Ubuntu 14.04 and I have Postfix installed. When I send something to my gmail account, it goes to spam. I set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC, here is a confirmation:
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
dkim=pass…
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BociucH
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How can the `to:` and `delivered-to:` fields in an email i received be different?
I received an email and I noticed that the Delivered-To: and To: fields were different. The To: field is not my actual email address, but the Delivered-To: field is. How does this happen?
Delivered-To: mike.smith@work.com
To: "msmith@work.com"…
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DKIM not signing with alias addresses - not internal, not authenticated
I have postfix, dovecot, opendkim and postsrsd installed. I am trying to forward mail from alias@example.com to myemail@gmail.com, and have them signed with DKIM.
I use postsrsd in order for the SPF record to pass for the forwarded emails.
However,…
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Can My Personal GMail Query A Remote LDAP Server?
I have a personal GMail account, from which I frequently send e-mail to a great many various users of a specific business. The corporation has been kind enough to provide me with the credentials to access their LDAP server, with which I would like…
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Pros/Cons of switching from Exchange to GMail
We are a medium-large non-profit company, with around 1000 staff and volunteers, and have been using MS Exchange (currently 2003) for our mail system for years.
I recently attended a Google conference where they were positing that "Cloud computing…
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Brent
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How to configure sendmail to send email via GMail (smtp.gmail.com), using port 465 or 587?
I have configures sendmail to send email via my GMail (Google Mail) account, i.e. via smtp.gmail.com, by editing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerating sendmail.cf:
-dnl…
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Jakub Narębski
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