Questions tagged [email]
Questions related to email setup and troubleshooting. Most questions can be tagged with your email client (such as "thunderbird" or "evolution")
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How to make crontab email me with output?
How can I make crontab email me with the output of its jobs? I have [email protected] above the jobs, but it doesn't work.
I know I need to use something like Postfix or Sendmail but for ...
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How to open eml files?
I've got a mail with eml file attached. I'm using Thunderbird but it doesn't open it.
Could anybody suggest program to open eml files?
Update:
I don't want to import my mailbox I want only read the ...
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How do I set up an email server?
My VPS is running Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to receive email to my domain.
How do I easily set up a mail server to do this?
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Can I get a combined inbox in Thunderbird?
I've setup Thunderbird (default in 12.04) with five mail accounts. Unfortunatly, every mail address is shown only with its own inbox, sent...
How can I get a combined inbox for all addresses? I've ...
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How to make Gmail open when clicking mailto: links in the same browser it is clicked? (Chrome/Firefox)
I just installed 12.04 and when clicking mailto: links Thunderbird opens.
I want Gmail to open in the browser, in which mailto: was clicked.
So if I am in Firefox and click a mailto: link a new FF ...
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cron.daily jobs not running
I created 3 daily cron jobs to run.
Below are the three that are placed in etc/cron.daily
rkhunter.sh
#!/bin/sh
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rkhunter --versioncheck
rkhunter --update
rkhunter --cronjob --report-warnings-only
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Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?
When I click on a link to an email address in Firefox or Google Chrome a "Welcome to Evolution" screen appears. Can I make Gmail open instead, or at the very least disable Evolution from running?
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How can I email an attachment from the command line
Is it possible to email attachments from the command line?
If possible, I'd like something as simple as:
mail -a myfile.txt -t [email protected] -s "Here's my file"
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View threads/conversations in Evolution just like Gmail can
I want to view threaded email conversations in Evolution. Is there a menu option for this? By threaded conversations I mean something like what Google's GMail does.
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How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is inserted?
We are running more than 600 Ubuntu systems in our company. It is a data centre so we have certain policies. We have disabled the usage of storage devices in all the Ubuntu systems. However we would ...
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Thunderbird or Evolution? [closed]
Before I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 (I formatted my harddisk and installed it), I used thunderbird.
Now I wanted to test out evolution. I think it's pretty good, because there are integrated ...
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How do I configure exim4 to send mail through a password protected ssl smtp mail server?
I'd like my cronjobs to be able to send mail from my home computer. My servers configure exim4 like this:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
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How can I convert .msg files (Outlook email message) into .eml?
I have just started using Ubuntu & Thunderbird.
I have saved my Outlook emails in my hard disk and they have an .msg extension. Now when I try to open them in Thunderbird it doesn't open them ...
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Is there a setting to make Firefox not directly download PDFs to Downloads when using "Open With"?
Ubuntu MATE 20.04
Possible culprits:
Email client: Thunderbird
PDF reader: Atril
Browser: Firefox v. 104.0
None are snaps.
For years I've been getting a .pdf copy of a newspaper via links emailed to ...
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Changing email application in Preferred Applications to GMail?
I'm trying to change the Preferred Application for email. I have installed the package desktop-webmail, but there is no new option under System - Preferences - Preferred Application as you would ...
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Access Prompt keeps asking for GMail password
A pop up keeping appearing in Ubuntu (running 12.10), asking for the password to my gmail account. The icon has a silver shield, and it is labeled Access Prompt.
The actual window has an image of ...
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How to send an email using command line? [duplicate]
Here's what I have:
cat UserReport.txt | mail -s "TestSubject" "[email protected]"
It's a small file, much smaller than a picture so it should send almost instantly. Though I receive nothing. I ...
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How can I setup a Mail Transfer Agent?
I intend to use mutt to send automated emails via cron or at with attachments to my gmail address when particular events happen on my Ubuntu server. Currently, mutt cannot send email to external ...
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How to change Helo Address?
Right now my Helo Address = localhost (helo=localhost). Is it better to set this to my server's domain name? If so, how do I change it? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and Postfix. Thanks.
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How can I configure alpine to read my gmail in Ubuntu?
I would like to use a terminal based mail client for my e-mail activities. I've been suggested to use alpine for it. But how do I configure it in Ubuntu to read my gmail mails?
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Configure Microsoft Exchange email on Ubuntu
I want to configure Microsoft Exchange emails on Ubuntu the way I use it in Outlook on Windows XP. Please help me to find a good step by step article.
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How can I extract images from a raw email?
Rather an odd problem that I'm sure has a multitude of answers. Somebody sent me an email with a ton of images embedded into the email body.
Here's how the end of the raw message starts (it goes on ...
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Is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like [email protected]
Being an Ubuntu user for about 3 years, is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like [email protected] ?
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How to make my server email me when there are security updates?
There's obviously a way to check to see when an update is a security update. I often get greeted by a motd that says "there are N security updates."
What I'd like to do is have my server email me a ...
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Get email notification for using 'sudo' by a specific user
I have a server set-up and I let somebody that I trust with a little bit of sudo access have it. However, I also want an email anytime that they use sudo.
I know that I can use Defaults ...
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I am unable to generate a gpg key through the keyring program
Whenever I try to generate a gpg key through the system's GPG program, it asks for my name, email, and password then everything except for the GPG program's main window disappears.
Upon using gpg key-...
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Alternative to Microsoft Outlook
I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 10. I used to rely heavily on MS Outlook, and still do, and I want something similar in Ubuntu.
I need an alternative that provides/supports/integrates (...
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Can I edit which icons appear in the Unity dash?
When I open the dash in 11.04, I get two rows of icons. The first row contains 'lenses' that take me to lists of applicaitons/files; the second row opens specific applications - Browse the Web, View ...
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Exchange with Evolution or any other mail client
I see other questions about this, no answers and no one with a completely similar question.
I work for a place with an Exchange 2007 server. There is an http://owa.ourserver.com that is accessible ...
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How to stop email report from Cron <root@machine> (hourly)
I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04, I've configured "ssmtp" with my gmail account and now I'm getting every hour an email with a report, this is an example:
From: root <[email protected]> Date: 2012/8/13 ...
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possible to mark all mail as read using one line terminal?
I am not trying to remove all the mails.
I googled for mark all mail as read, actually got posts saying how to delete them instead.
I found out using echo p | mail will output first of unread then ...
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"SASL authentication failed" with mutt and Gmail, why? [closed]
I am confused by this, I have installed a lot of new packages and followed some tutorials after googling but I keep getting this kind of SASL -error. I am not sure whether the mistake is in some Gmail ...
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Easiest way to set up an IMAP mail server
I am new to setting up a mail server, and everywhere I look I get either outdated or really complex instructions on setting up a mail server.
Is there any simple methods on installing an IMAP mail ...
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How to prevent Thunderbird to download all emails after fresh install?
I have installed Thunderbird on my Ubuntu machine and connected my gmail account and Thunderbird started to download all my emails (2353 emails)
How to prevent this from happening. I don't want to ...
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Sending mail without domain name
We have a server, we are using this for backups and other cronjobs. I would like to send mail to the users when one of their cronjobs or backups has ended. Is it possible to do this if I don't have a ...
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System monitoring with email notifications
I currently have an Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS and I want to be able to receive email notifications with information about the resource usage on my server. CPU, memory, swap, you name it.
I understand ...
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Open mbox File?
How to open a mbox file? Mutt displays no mails when calling mutt -f sent.mbox.
The mbox format is "From" without colon.
Is there any mbox viewer for Linux?
Thank you in advance.
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How to configure Thunderbird to notify new mails only in certain folders?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and recently started using Thunderbird.
I have GMail account and have configured a lot of Labels in it, all of which appear as folders in Thunderbird. Most of these are just ...
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Which email client works best with GMail IMAP? [closed]
I use GMail (and I use labels intensively) and because of having to use a very slow Internet connection now I've came to the idea that I should try using a desktop email client.
What application (...
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How to download only recent mails in Thunderbird?
I have an account at Hotmail and I have lots of mails there. (more than 10000)
I don't want Thunderbird to download them all, also because I have really slow connection.
Is there a way to make ...
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Is it possible to close Evolution but still get notifications for new mail in GNOME 3 notification area?
I use Evolution for mailing, and I like how new mail notifications appear in GNOME 3 notification area at the top of the screen. Unfortunately, it seems that Evolution must be running for this ...
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How can I set up Evolution to access a local mail box?
Often, when I start up a new terminal, I get the message:
No mail for pwnguin, or You have 5 unread messages. I'm not terribly great with mail, but I do have a running instance of Evolution connecting ...
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Where is Gmail Archive option in Evolution?
How can I easily archive my gmail account emails in Evolution? I would like a solution easily as gmail archive. After lot of googling the only solution that I found is manually sending to the All ...
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How to change default FROM address for mail command using sSMTP?
I have installed:
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
sudo apt-get install mailutils
When I use command:
echo "something" | mail -s "testing email" [email protected]
The generated email have From field set ...
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The mail command hangs on "Cc:" for mail
For some reason, when I send mail with
mail -s 'test email' [email protected]
It prints out Cc: after I press enter and I can't do anything. I tried pressing . and it still is stuck. I'm ...
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Which option ("internet site", "internet with smarthost", "satellite system") should I choose in postfix configuration?
When I attempt to install postfix on my home desktop system, I get a configuration dialog with the following options1:
No configuration: Should be chosen to leave the current configuration unchanged.
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How can I download attachments from emails through terminal using getmail?
I know I can download emails using a client, but is there a way to download emails straight from the terminal? I'm trying to fetch some emails from my gmail to later do some analysis on certain emails....
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How to configure mail server to report a hostname distinct from server name [closed]
I have a VPS set up with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid running exim4 as the MTA. The machine name itself is something easily recognizable to us (in this case, 'Fermat'), but the machine itself is responsible ...
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How do I make Evolution check and notify new emails, without keeping main UI open? [closed]
How do I make Evolution keep checking my emails and notifying in the indicator applet without keeping the main UI open?
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