Questions tagged [mail]
This tag is used when the question is about real mail. Such as asking how to get a copy of Ubuntu in the mail. If you have questions regarding email, please use the the email tag.
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How to remove the Mail icon indicator applet?
I'm wondering how it's possible to remove the little mail indicator applet in the global menu. I've uninstalled all the programs that use it, like Thunderbird, Empathy, and Gwibber, since I don't use ...
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How to have my PHP Send mail?
I installed Ubuntu 11.04, LAMP using tasksel.
I find that PHP mail() does not work.
I suppose I need to enable it or something? How do I do that?
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How are administrators supposed to read root's mail?
What is the Ubuntu way for system administrators to receive system notifications, which typically take the form of e-mail sent to the root account?
Examples of such notifications are the output of ...
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How do I delete everything in /var/mail/username from the command line?
As a result of a long-running cron job, I have over 1,000 messages in my user's mailbox. What's the easiest way to delete them?
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How do I make cron email my @gmail account
I have a couple of cron jobs that sometimes produce error output and would like to get a notification in my "real" email account, since I don't use my user's mailbox in my Ubuntu laptop, but cron (or ...
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How can I delete a mail account in Thunderbird?
I missed one letter of my user name for my mail when add an account to Thunderbird. My mail is reachable in webmail with my browser, but is unreachable in Thunderbird.
How do I delete an email ...
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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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How can I access system mail in /var/mail/ via Thunderbird?
I've got cron jobs sending mail to my user at /var/mail. I know how to access that at the command line with the mail command. But, while a big command line fan, I do not like reading mail (even system ...
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"antispam plugin not configured" [closed]
I'm trying to get the dovecot-antispam plugin working on a 15.10 server (I can't dist-upgrade, it's on a vps) and I'm getting the error message of anti spam plugin not configured when trying to move ...
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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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Is there a simple mail server I can install?
I have a desktop install of ubuntu, not server. But I am running a localhost LAMP stack for development. Is there a simple mail server I can install so that PHP's sendmail works?
Ideally it will ...
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Changing default domain in mailutils
I have installed mailutils on Ubuntu 12.10 and I have run into a problem where the domain being attached is the fully qualified host and not just the domain. For example,
mail user2 [enter] then ...
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How can I configure Postfix to send all email through my Gmail account?
I'm trying to send an email through Google from my localhost.
(via PHP5.3)
But Google keeps on blocking my requests.
I tried to follow the solutions given to a few similar questions, but for some ...
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Thunderbird showing "Unable to locate mail spool file" on installing gmail account in ubuntu 13.04?
I just configure a gmail account in thunder mail but its continuously showing me error "Unable to locate mail spool file." when i click get mail then also it shows same error.
its not retrieving mail ...
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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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How to configure mail (mailutils) to use Maildir schema by default?
When I type mail command, I get a "No mail for USER" answer, but there's indeed mail (it's in /home/USER/Maildir/new)
I guess it has something to do with the mailbox being in Maildir format, instead ...
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No new mail notification in Thunderbird
I am using Thunderbird 31 on Ubuntu. I set up my accounts and then I closed Thunderbird.
But I'm not getting any notification.
Is there any add-on I need?
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Which mailx package should I install for Nagios?
I'm following the Nagios Ubuntu quickstart instructions. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and installing Nagios 3.2.3.
At the bottom of the docs it says I need to install the mailx and postfix packages. (...
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Send system mail Ubuntu 18.04
Hello I have looked at many different guides on the web for how to send system mail to my gmail from ubuntu 18.04 in case of problems on the device / server - But can't find a simple guide that i ...
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How can I read system mail?
Which packages need to be installed in order for system mail to be generated from for example a nightly rkhunter scan run by cron?
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Using CLI "mail" command
I feel a little silly asking this question... as the answer may be quite simple... but searching here on AU, or on Google, or man mail, hasn't given me the answer.
If I start mail, I see this:
"/...
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ExQuilla alternatives for connecting to MS Exchange Server?
I installed ExQuilla according to this tutorial After Installation: Creating an Exchange account. For accessing Microsoft Exchange Account.
And I accessed my MS mail without any trouble:
But this ...
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mail(1) isn't able to open Maildir mailbox
I'm having to set up an email server for a class and have installed exim (using Maildir mailbox format) and sent myself an email. I can't read the email though: I have set the MAIL variable to ~/...
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How to manage /var/mail/root file
The size of /var/mail/root has been increasing as i am using lot of cron jobs and may cause memory shortage.
Is it wise to delete that file? How to manage this problem?
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Connecting Yahoo mail with Evolution
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and want to add my yahoo mail account to Evolution, how can I do that
There are many resources available but no step to step accurate guide is there
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Is there a Gnome applet for IMAP mail accounts?
In the spirit of this question...
Is there an indicator applet that tells me when I've received an email through any IMAP service? If so, where can I get it?
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I can't start spamassassin service
I have installed and configured spammassassin in my system(14.04) using this tutor.
When I start a service using,
service spamassassin start
am getting response as,
Starting SpamAssassin Mail ...
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Simplest MTA mail setup for a desktop to receive (ana)cron emails
Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) doesn't seem to install any sort of mailer by default.
Everybody seems to recommend installing Postfix. I am familiar with Postfix, which I use on several "real" servers.
But it ...
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Easiest way to setup a SMTP server to receive mail?
I want to setup a SMTP server to receive all mails.
I have only found mail sending software so far (like postfix).
But I want to have software to make the server being able to receive mails.
Bonus ...
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Why am I not able to send an email from command line
This is what I did (as per a few discussions on this website)
mail -s "hi" [email protected] < test.txt
Where text.txt has the message.
I checked to see if mail did exist and it does at /usr/...
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What mail server does Ubuntu have installed by default?
What mail server does Ubuntu 12.04 have installed by default, or is there one?
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What spam filter should I use with Evolution: Bogofilter or SpamAssasin? [closed]
The Ubuntu standard mail client Evolution provides two plugins for spam filtering:
Bogofilter
SpamAsassin
What is the difference? Are there any advantages / disadvantages (speed / accuracy / ...)?
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Schedule sending mail of a log file content
I have postfix mail agent installed and I've configured gmail relay and I could send mails from the terminal as below:
root@statino1:~# mail -s "subject_here" [email protected]
CC: <hit enter ...
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Missing X-Spam-Status header
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (trusty) and have followed the directions in https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/mail-filtering.html and am sending and receiving mail just fine.
While ...
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Mail client that does NOT mark mails as read automatically?
Problem is, that mails get marked as read when I select them and they are shown in the preview pane.
I tried Thunderbird, Claws Mail and Sylpheed and I didn't find an option that prevents this. I'm ...
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Is there any [yahoo + Gmail + Hotmail] "widget" notifier?
A notifier for all the three if it's possible beside the clock...
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.30.2. Thank you.
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How do I install these printing and mail related utilities?
My job wants me to install the following utilities on our Ubuntu server:
lp
lpstat
cancel
mail
I have no idea how to do it.
Thank you very much in advance for your time.
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Any way to exclude accounts from mail indicator?
I only want one of my accounts to make the mail indicator go blue when I get a new message, but I don't want it monitoring the second account I also have in Thunderbird. Possible?
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How do you setup system email to send to a Gmail account?
Often when I'm working on a terminal, I'll see the "you have new mail in..." message. I know I can see this mail by looking in my system's mail folder (/var/mail/), but this is inconvenient. Also, if ...
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Did Ubuntu move from installing an MTA by default to not installing an MTA by default?
I recently set up a new computer with Ubuntu 11.04 amd64, set up as a desktop. I hadn't got around to setting up an email client to read system mail, and I was curious what unread mail might have ...
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Send email via gmail, without other mail server, with postfix
I am inexperienced in configuring mail systems.
I am using Ubuntu #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu.
How can I configure my computer to send emails using a gmail account, with postfix?
I mean not to have any other ...
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Run default mail client
To run the default web browser or terminal there are commands like x-www-browser and x-terminal-emulator. There are other alternatives for common programs.
Is there a similar command to run the ...
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Unity Mail opens Ubuntu Tour instead of account URL in browser
The problem is not only with Unity mail but also other applications. For example when I go to Help menu in Sublime 2 and click Purchase License, Firefox opens this file:
file:///usr/share/doc/ubuntu-...
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Do I have to set up mail for Ubuntu to be able to mail users?
I remember Debian automatically sending mail to users (to report a failed sudo authentication attempt, for example). On Ubuntu is mail of some kind automatically set up? I created a cron job, and ...
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unattended-upgrades sends attachment instead of text
I'm trying to setup automatic security updates on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS with an email response:
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades
sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades
# Answered Yes
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DISABLE all mail functions in Ubuntu [closed]
I have a standard staging environment on a Ubuntu server (LAMP), with a couple of webpages on it.
There are some webpages that send Emails on particular workflow events.
I have to run few tests on ...
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How can I install pflogsumm for Postfix mail log analyzer?
I am useing Postfix mail server in Ubuntu 13.04. I want to install pflogsumm in my server and analyze the mail log. How can I do this?
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Access Exchange 2003 mailbox from Terminal
How do I check an Exchange mailbox for new mail from the command line?
I'm at a complete loss here.
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"MapiLogonProvider: Network error" with Exchange MAPI Connector
Using Ubuntu 12.04, and Exchange MAPI plugin for Evolution. I have specified the server as an IP address (as found with Google) however when I try and authenticate I get:
"MapiLogonProvider: Network ...
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How to use Mutt as the mail transport agent used by crontab?
I am using Mutt to send emails from my server. Using the MAILTO variable to send the result of running crontab tasks is not working as it seems that it expects to find /usr/bin/mail.
This is the ...
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