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postfix and sending mail to an external server

I know this isn't a help forum for this kind of problem, but i've looked everywhere for the past 5 hours trying to find a solution to this, and nothing seems to work. Hopefully someone will have run into this problem before and come up with a solution I've got a debian server and i would like to have it serve my mail as well. I set up p...

How does Highrise handle e-mail addresses like: [email protected]?

I'm trying to generate custom e-mail addresses that get forwarded to a catch-all. I'm wondering how postfix would need to be configured to handle these types of e-mails [email protected] ...

Must an SMTP client provide the MTA a globally resolvable hostname in the HELO?

In short: I'm trying to figure out if I should tell a mail administrator of a friend's employer whether their mail configuration should be fixed, or if I should revise my own policy to be more liberal in what I accept, or neither. A friend was complaining of being unable to reach anything on my mailserver. I dug into it and it seems th...

How do I set up my Ubuntu VPS to send outgoing mail?

My VPS provider (Slicehost) doesn't provide an SMTP server. I use Google Apps to send and receive mail for my domains, but I want to be able to programmatically send e-mail. I've been Googling this issue on and off for many months, and I just can't seem to get a clear picture of what I need to do. Do I just need an MTA like postfix? ...

How to monitor Postfix MTA Status

What is a good command to monitor a Postfix installation on a linux server? It should be one command that can be run from a command prompt in an SSH session and returns information about whether the postfix process is active and the size of the relevant mail queues. ...

Defining different types of numbers in C#

You can define a number in various ways in C#, 1F // a float with the value 1 1L // a long with the value 1 1D // a double with the value 1 personally I'm looking for which would a short, however to make the question a better reference for people, what are all the other post-fix's to number literals you can apply? ...

Configuring Postfix to not use a daemon

I realize this is wildly offtopic but this is my last hope. I would like to only send mail from my computer, both locally and to remote servers, so I don't think I need postfix to run a daemon, but I can't find anything that will tell me how to configure it. Would anyone happen to know? ...

Any reason I couldn't create a language supporting infix, postfix, and prefix functions, and more?

I've been mulling over creating a language that would be extremely well suited to creation of DSLs, by allowing definitions of functions that are infix, postfix, prefix, or even consist of multiple words. For example, you could define an infix multiplication operator as follows (where multiply(X,Y) is already defined): a * b => multipl...

Defining a "messagle handler" in Postfix

We are using Postfix for mail delivery and I am trying to make a shell script handle an email sent to [email protected]. Is there a way to do this and how? I am trying to create an email-based front-end for a bulletin board. The users have split into two factions: those who would like to use the forum and those who prefer us...

How do I read/retrieve emails received by local postfix, through python

I am using postfix in my production server which will receive all the emails related to mydomain.com In this context, I want to forward only emails related to few users to different email addresses. By which I mean, lets say I am a super user([email protected]). I want to forward all my emails(all mails with to:[email protected]...

Procmail Forward script to forward emails from one domain to the other

I am trying to write a procmail forward script, which will forward all the mails received at mydomain.com to mydomain.NET. To be more clear, if mail is to:[email protected], it should forward to: [email protected]. Like this it should forward for all corresponding emails: How Can I do this? ...

How to receive all emails pertaining to a domain, on my production machine?

I have a strange requirement, any website user(not linux system user) will be getting a email id, say [email protected],[email protected] with which they are going to have a inbox feature built into their dashboard. Any outside user(can be anyone on the planet/not precisely my website user) can email this [email protected] and jack r...

Integrate postfix mail into my (python)webapp

I have a postfix server listening and receiving all emails received at mywebsite.com Now I want to show these postfix emails in a customized interface and that too for each user To be clear, all the users of mywebsite.com will be given mail addresses like [email protected] who receives email on my production machine but he sees them...

are you supposed to use both NICs on a linux server?

this may sound ridiculous, but i'm really not sure whether to use the 2nd NIC on a linux server. what do you do with your 2nd NIC? is it for redundancy or for throughput? on our mail server (postfix), we're very confused as to what is the optimal use of that 2nd NIC. thanks so much! ...

How do I get the email in a script running from my .forward-file?

I am writing a script to handle an automated email inbox. I've never really dealt with mail servers before, but have gotten to a point where every email sent is executing my script. I am using a .forward file in the home directory of the recipient user that looks like this: "|exec /home/[MY USER]/magic || exit 75 #[MY USER]" The scrip...

postfix: send a copy of every email to a given email address

I have a postfix email server and there is an issue I want to debug. How can I configure it to send a copy of every email to my email (in addition to delivering the email to its intended recipients). ...

Linux postfix won't send to local domain

Hi there, I think the crux of this issue is that I'm a postfix neophyte, but here goes. I'm using postfix's sendmail on a 1&1 VPS account to post messages from a webserver (through PHP; contact forms, password resets, etc.). It's working fine, except mail cannot be sent to the local domain. That is, if the host is example.com, any mess...

postfix: How to send emails to users

I run a webserver on debian lenny. How to setup postfix to send emails to users for user registration, forgot password? How to configure the system? I don't want the system to receive any emails from outside world, including user reply. ...

Postfix Mail Server - Local accounts and external accounts - Forwarding

Hello! My name is Matias and i've a question about postfix configuration. This is the issue. I've a postfix mail server which has external email accounts (that exists on both my mailserver and my ISP) and internal use accounts (that only exists on my local mailserver). The problem is when a local account tries to send an email to anoth...

want email from my server (postfix) to an email address on my domain to be delivered to google apps

I have google apps for receiving email. I get inquiries from people on info@[my-domain.com], which email is hosted on google. Sometimes, I want my rails set-up to send emails from my own server, and that works fine. But when I want to send to an email address on my own domain, such as [email protected], postfix sees the my-domain.com...