Questions tagged [email]
Sending, receiving, reading, composing, sorting, and generally working with email. For the mail(1) command line utility, see the tag /mail-command.
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Receiving email with OpenSMTPD fails with 550 Invalid recipient
I am trying to set up a mailserver using OpenSMTPD. My configuration is: listen on enp4s0f2 action "save" maildir "/mail/%{rcpt}" match for rcpt-to regex ".*" action &...
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When do you have to check the fingerprint of a PGP key in an independent way during initial contact?
For brevity I talk about PGP, but GnuPG or OpenPGP are meant as well and gpg is the OpenPGP encryption and signing tool for it. When initially establishing an email connection with someone, both ...
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Mutt/Neomutt with Maildir do not save sent email
Since I changed from mbox to Maildir format, mutt/neomutt does not save sent email in ~/.muttrc I have et mbox_type=Maildir set folder="~/Maildir" set mask="!^\\.[^.]" set mbox=...
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Email client with full EAS (exchange active sync) capability
I am in the process of finally switching my main machine over to Linux. One of the last items I am still urgently trying to solve is to find an email client that is capable of taking advantage of the ...
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How to Resume Editing a Draft with Aerc TUI Email Client
I'm currently using aerc and I have an email that I postponed yesterday, which was then saved into the Drafts folder. Now, I want to continue writing this email, but when I go into the Drafts folder, ...
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How to set up email on Intranet - no ISP, no internet, no encryption, no spam filters; everything behind my firewall
The situation is a Raspberry Pi which is hosting several services. Sometimes, a service may fail, then I need to send an alert to my desktop. I have done many web searches, most of the results talk ...
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Mutt hides full headers and i cannot see how to get full header information for emails
i am running what seems to be Mutt 1.9.4 (2018-02-28). And the problem is that I cannot obtain full header information for incoming emails. the h just provides an additional Mime-Version: 1.0 and ...
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Linux simple script: redirect error to file and email
I have a script that syncronizes folders. The script does /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete $SOURCE $DEST >> $LOG_FILE 2>> $ERR_LOG_FILE so it redirects output to LOG_FILE and error output to ...
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Weird error using evolution mail (keyring-related?)
I use Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 (Gen12) with the standard Gnome shell (see here for my setup). The problem is not specific to oracular, it was present with 22.04 as well. I am ...
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How to view locally stored .EML files as if they were in an inbox folder?
This may be a strange question. I use webmail because of its convenience, and to avoid my storage to become full I export emails into .EML files before deleting them from the webmail. So I have a ...
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Thunderbird 115.13.0 cannot connect authenticated user via OAuth2 to Microsoft Outlook365
I've Thunderbird 115.13.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and I have my email which is configured properly automatically by Thunderbird for IMAP and SMTP servers from Microsoft outlook office 365. However, now it has ...
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mailx not sending to Outlook distribution list?
So I have a Solaris 11 server with mailx. I am trying to send emails to distribution lists in the company's Outlook (which is not running on this server, it runs on Microsoft's cloud). I am able to ...
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How do I use SSL and SASL for dovecot sieve autoreplies?
Dovecot's sieve can send its autoreplies via another SMTP server. But I can't find in the documentation anywhere how to configure authentication and certificates/ssl for this connection. Currently my ...
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Setting up Linux Mail Server with SpamAssassin: How to Receive Emails and Retrieve Spam Scores Programmatically?
I'm looking to set up a mail server on Linux that can receive emails, analyze them using SpamAssassin, and then return the spam score results. My goal is to integrate this into an application where I ...
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How to set absolute postfix Maildir NOT within home directory ? mail_spool_directory does not work
I have installed Postfix from source in the top level directory /srv/mail/. I edit the main.cf file and add: home_mailbox = mail/ When I then send a mail with: sendmail -t localuser@localhost > My ...
