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General purpose email routing software that supports mail transport via TCP/IP using SMTP

sendmail is a popular Unix-based email routing facility that makes use of and supports the transfer and delivery of email via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and many other ways (e.g. UUCP).

sendmail exists both as free and open source software and as a commercial project, called Sendmail.

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Gratuitous CRLF in Subject: line - why is it there, and is it legal?

I'm running into a problem with a NAGIOS system sending emails to a popular email-to-SMS service. The email-to-SMS service takes emails with text in the Subject: line, and sends them on to the mobile number encoded in the To: field. So far so…
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user smmsp found in repeatedly in auth.log

Running an Ubuntu server that hosts about 10 Wordpress websites Is it normal to find this in my auth log? Oct 26 08:40:01 andre CRON[4737]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user smmsp by (uid=0) Oct 26 08:40:01 andre CRON[4737]:…
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Mails sent to mail.protection.outlook.com are not being received

For few days we have been receiving complaints from many of our subscribed clients that they are not getting daily alert mails. We checked in our logs that the mails are accepted by the servers (MX record: example.com.mail.protection.outlook.com),…
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Understanding service --status-all output

I am trying to understand the output of the service --status-all command on Ubuntu 13.10, since the man page doesn't explain it. For example: [ + ] rsyslog [ - ] sendmail [ ? ] sendsigs [ + ] setvtrgb [ - ] ssh What do +, -, ? mean? I can't…
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Change default from address from Postfix from www-data to something else

Setting up Postfix and Apache/PHP on an Ubuntu server. Mail's now going out ok with the proper domain name, but the local part display name is always "www-data" as I'm assuming Postfix uses the name of the user by default. In the php.ini file, I…
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Get log of mail sent with mail() from PHP (sendmail?)

After some server changes our PHP configuration got nuked, which caused a client's large mailing list to time out partially through about 4,000 addresses or more. We want to avoid sending a duplicate mail as much as possible, and we have the…
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How to verify if my postfix uses really TLS to send outgoing mails?

I successfully installed Postfix on my VPS. I would like to send encrypted email. I installed all certificates and private keys and set my conf file: smtpd_tls_key_file = smtpd_tls_cert_file =
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What is the difference between "dnl" and "dnl #" in a sendmail.mc file?

What is the difference between dnl and dnl # in a /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file? If I want to enable something what needs to be in front? Likewise, if I want to "comment out" something, what prefix do I need? For example: dnl # masquerade not just…
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Sendmail: Sender address rejected (Domain not found)

I'm running into problems with sending mail on our webserver. Some mails are sent and delivered without any problems (eg Gmail), while others are deferred with "Sender address rejected: Domain not found" I understand that this is a spam protection…
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Minimum PostFix configuration for sending emails only?

My servers are currently on sendmail which is not very efficient. I'd like to migrate to PostFix. I'm using Google Mail for Domain for handling incoming email so I need to setup PostFix to send emails only. What's the minimal PostFix configuration I…
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How can i send /var/mail/root again?

Through some misconfiguration I've a lot of emails in /var/mail/root and /var/mail/www-data How can I "loop" over these files and send each mail another time?
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Removing apache@localhost from email headers?

My setup: I'm running a Magento website on an Amazon Linux server (which seems to basically be CentOS) with an Apache webserver. I also use Google Apps for managing mydomain.com's mail. I was able to successfully set up the MX, SPF and DKIM records…
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What mailer does cron use to send mail?

I am trying to debug an issue with cron not sending mail on a Centos 6 box that I did not configure. How can I determine which mailer cron is using to send mail? The crontab man page has this to say, in part: In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and…
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Send all outgoing mail to /dev/null

With sendmail, how would you send all outgoing mail to /dev/null or just prevent email from being queued up or sent at all? On a development nagios box I want prevent sending of mail so that notifications don't go out. Stopping outbound mail will…
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How to configure sendmail to relay through a specific server

I have a tiny home server setup behind my cable modem (bresnan communications). I want to be able for this box to send out email (not receive) for notifications and whatnot. What I have already done: I have installed and configured sendmail. I…
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