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Can sendmail forward e-mail immediately instead of queueing?

Some of the e-mail passing through my server is forwarded to external accounts. Unfortunately, my upstream SMTP-server is very picky about spam -- and rejects some of the legitimate messages as such. When this happens to the forwarded mail, I get…
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Forword incoming email to all existing emails via .qmail

Is it possible to forward incoming emails to all other email adresses on the server? Let's say you have "office@example.org" and every employee shall also get the emails sent to this address. (Not using .qmail but something different is sadly not…
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qmail couldn't find any host named

System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (fresh install) qmail dovecot Plesk 17 Mail configuration was done with plesk. It is not possible to send any mail to any reciepents on different domains. Log contains: qmail: 1553679224.737428 delivery 12: failure:…
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Why qmail is rejecting sending emails with bare LFs characters?

I have a problem with qmail, which is rejecting send emails from 2 email accounts in particular. When I enter through webmail everything works ok but when I use the blessed "MS Outlook" installed on PC's I get an error of the type: "51 See…
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Mbox files not shown on client over IMAP after restore from backup

The story: the HDD containing user /home/* directories with Mboxes died. I restored them from a backup to another machine and mounted the whole structure back to the original imap's server /home location over NFS (v3, options client: auto,…
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smtproutes relay all except local virtual domains

I'm using smtproutes to deliver users' email to certain domains through an external SMTP server with example.com:externalsmtp.com How can I deliver all the emails to my external SMTP except for local virtual domains?
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Upgrading qmail from 1.03-38 to 1.06-5

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I tried to upgrade a chroot'ed environment and it seems I broke dpkg in the process. I don't know if the cause of the problems is that apt-get isn't able to handle a qmail upgrade or if it's something else (it seems snmpd…
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Why does dovecot cur folder remain very large after emptying it?

My CentOS system, used for PHPList, accumulates incoming mail in this path: /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/noreply/Maildir/cur There used to be hundreds of thousands of emails in this mailbox, they were bounce emails meant for bounce processing by…
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Forward mail using qmail to multiple recipients dynamically

I am trying to forward an incoming mail to multiple recipients. The recipient's addresses are stored inside a mysql database, so I need to call a script to get the addresses before forwarding the mail. I already tried piping the mail to a PHP…
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Qmail SMTP receiver always delays by 66 seconds

I am currently struggling with a problem in my qmail setup, which seems to delay my smtp receiver everytime for 66 seconds. This is for most remote hosts fine, but some seem to reach their timeout and do not deliver the mail. I am running qmail…
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Emails are delayed from certain senders

For some reason, emails from senders who send an email via outlook (Microsoft SMTP Server) are always delayed. I have attached part of email header below which states that email was sent on "Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:04:07" and received by recipient on…
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How to track scripts that are sending SPAM?

Our server is hosting multiples websites for different clients. The hosting provider has blocked the port 25 after detecting that our dedicated server is sending spams. I have checked Qmail logs but found nothing suspicious. Spamassassin at first…
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Qmail errors using qmailctl

I am following the guide "Life with Qmail Life With Qmail When I try to execute the qmailctl command, I get the following: root@mail:~# qmailctl start Starting qmail qmail-send supervise not running qmail-smtpd supervise not running svok: fatal:…
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Should we rename the host name part of the email files when migrating to another email server?

The original email file name pattern looks like this: 1447902202.31829.old-domain.com,S=15459960_2,S If we are going to migrate to another email server, should we rename the host name part of the file name so that it…
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Qmail: Send all outgoing mails to local file

When I have to test an email-sending web application on a server, how could I achive that every mails which should get delivered non-local (be sent to some remote smtp) gets stored in a local file (or mailbox) instead?
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