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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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Error while sending mail via PHP mail()

We use postfix and sendmail interface and are trying to send mails using the php mail() function and are getting the following error: Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i' in /var/www/html/xyz/temp.php on line…
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Run sendmail with port 25 blocked by ISP

I'm trying to set up sendmail to receive system messages on my real email account. I've set up alias for root and started newaliases. Now mailq reports: Deferred: Connection timed out with mymail.server.com I suspect it due to ISP blocking port 25…
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What's a good tutorial that can help me set up an email server?

One that doesn't get marked as spam filters, of course. I'm familiar with Ubuntu, but have never messed with Postfix or Sendmail anything before. Basically, this is what I want: Have my own name@mydomain.com address. Be able to send emails and…
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How to configure Sendmail?

How can I learn to configure sendmail on Unix-aix? Note that I don't have a DNS server.
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Can I change my sendmail port?

I am having a problem sending mail through sendmail. I have configured sendmail and it is fine. I telnetd the localhost and it connects but when i telnet port 25 is says telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused. Also the smtp…
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Setup Email Server (sendmail + dovecot + squirrelmail)

I am in the process of setting up my very first email server. I can get everything up and running (thanks to apt-get). Manage to tie the users with system users. Now I am setting up virtual users for dovecot. But however, I also notice I can setup…
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Virtualmin Configuration

I am trying to get Virtualmin setup and have reached a point where my noobish sysadmin skills aren't getting the job done. This is the message I get now when I try and refresh the configuration of Virtualmin. BIND DNS server is installed, and the…
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How to properly configure sendmail to delivery message?

I bought a VPS from OVH. This Ubuntu VPS hostname is something like vps12345 or vps12345.ovh.net. If I test sendmail via command line to send an email to my mail test@gmail.com, it works: I receive an email from test@vps12345@ovh.net. But I'd like…
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How is sendmail sending emails without port 25 opened?

I have Amazon AWS server which I'm configuring to receive emails. AWS states that port 25 is closed for outgoing connections unless you specifically apply to have it opened. But I tried to send an email anyway with sendmail from the command prompt,…
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Centos 7 - Sendmail google relay issue

So since my isp's smtp servers didn't work i decided to use google's servers, with port 587 since it isn't blocked. So i followed this tutorial: https://linuxconfig.org/configuring-gmail-as-sendmail-email-relay. And now when i try to send i get…
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Sendmail works fine but PHP is unable to use that

I have a problem sending mail with PHP on a LAMP (redhat 7 server). I have configured sendmail, with which I am able to send email using the following: $ sendmail toemail@something.com message body ctrl+d (sends…
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Postfix configuration in Ubuntu is not sendin e-mail to Yahoo

Is the first time that I configure a Postfix Mail service in Ubuntu. The situation I'm facing is that recover password e-mails are being sent to G-mail accounts, but no e-mails are being sent to Yahoo e-mails accounts. I configured Postfix for…
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Creating subfolder for sendmail user

We use sendmail for automated email alerts such as info@compnayname.com or alerts@companyname.com. It's a simple sendmail configuration where these emails are created and then an alias is used to forward emails to whoever is in charge of looking at…
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Mitigating spam on Linux server where all MTA's (Postifix, PHP Mail() function) etc. are disabled

We have a Debian Squeeze server running a fairly standard LAMP stack (back in the days it was set up using the Perfect Server guide at Howtoforge, so we're using ISPConfig as our backend admin panel) which has been locked down pretty well with…
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VPS Cron and other email going to spam folder

I have a new vps and I need to setup some cron jobs on it to notify me of what's happening on the server. I've tested with sendmail and emails are indeed leaving the server, but on my email they are arriving as spam. What are the steps I need to do…
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