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Message/mail transfer agent designed for UNIX hosts.

qmail is a public-domain mail transfer agent for UNIX hosts written by Dan Bernstein.

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The tag qmail can be used for all programming related problems. The tag can also be used for setting up a simple mail server. Please note that https://serverfault.com/ is another Stack Exchange website where you can ask especially configuration specific problems.

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Actionmailer SMTP Server Response

When sending mail through actionmailer, the actionmailer gets a response from the SMTP server, when its ok, or when its wrong. Is there a way to retrieve this response after sending a mail? Also when no errors are thrown by the SMTP server? Our…
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Why is this not a bug in qmail?

I was reading DJB's "Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0" and he listed this function for moving a file descriptor: int fd_move(to,from) int to; int from; { if (to == from) return 0; if (fd_copy(to,from) == -1) return -1; …
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Redmine sends mail twice

When creating/editing an issue in redmine the notification mails get sent twice. Why? I looked into the redmine configuration file "config/configuration.yml" and tried to remove the "email_delivery:" section in "production:" because there is already…
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How do I restart qmail?

I have a VPS and root ssh access. I'm sure I've restarted Qmail before via SSH but can't figure out how. I've tried to run /etc/init.d/qmail restart but all I get is -bash: /etc/init.d/qmail: No such file or directory. I've also run: ps ax | grep…
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Plesk Parallels can't send email to account with external MX records

My domain @thisdomain.com is sat on my VPS. This VPS is the NameServer and provides the DNS for @thisdomain.com. The mail server for @thisdomain.com is hosted with an external webmail service provided by GoDaddy. Unfortunately my mail forms on my…
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PHPmailer not sending emails

Im trying to send email through a Qmail server using phpmailer. After sending, i get the message "meesage was sent" but no message is every received.. Heres my code:
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How to send / Receive mail with "qmail" in PHP

i want to send and receive mail using qmail in php. i have never used it before tell me how is it possible. Thanks in Advance...
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How is another IP sending email through my qMail?

My first question on here... I have a VPS which I have a few small websites on and also run my email services, every now and then I see messages in my mail queue that I did not send. Firstly my setup: Ubuntu 12.04 Latest Plesk Panel qMail SMTP…
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how to invoke script after receipt of mail automatically?

I am developing one application where I need to invoke a Perl script as soon as mail receives. I am using QMAIL as MTA. I read about Qmail-qfilter where we can intercept inbound mail but I am using Qmail 1.06 where Qmail-qfilter is not inbuilt…
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Wildcards in an email address with qmail?

I'm trying to set up an email address in qmail such that a unique identifier can be passed as part of the email address. For example: reply-123@example.com, reply-345@example.com, reply-99999@example.com would all go to the 'reply' user and be…
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Best way to separate email and frontend server

I am running an Apache server with PHP. Until now, emails to users have been sent from this Apache server using PHP's mail() function. To optimize this structure, I would like to separate the email part on a separate server (running qmail…
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When piping email to a script, does the script need to set a return value to indicate that the email has been accepted?

I've set up a Perl script to process incoming emails through qmail. However, I find that email messages are hitting the script over and over again, every few minutes for several hours. Am I supposed to set a return value in the script or do…
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Save an email attachment automatically to map with qmail and reformime

Save an email attachment automatically to map with qmail and reformime I'm trying to move attachment automatically to another locatie with the dot-qmail file. My .qmail file #------------------------------------------------------------ |…
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Qmail - Forward email without attachment

I have pretty standard Qmail toaster installation. I'm using the dot files to set up mail forwarding for my account, so when I recieve an e-mail, this e-mail stays in my mailbox and is also forwarded to another email address. Easy, you say. And yes,…
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WORKING QMAIL TOASTER - QMAIL, VPOPMAIL, DOVECOT AND ROUNDCUBE

Am on an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux AMI Server. I used "Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster v. 0.9.4" at Bill's Linux Qmail Toaster v. 0.9.4 to install the various software packages there, specifically: daemontools, ucspi-tcp, qmail, vpopmail, dovecot, squirrel…
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