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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.

This tag was designed for use with questions that relates to sending as an example the latest ubuntu DVD to you in mail. At the moment there are many that uses this tag, when they should have picked email. This tag is meant for questions relating to emails, such as email software etc.

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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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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 enter message and send produces a from address of…
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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 of mbox, but I don't know how to tell mailutils…
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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 ~/Maildir but when I try to open mail I…
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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 delete mail from /var/mail/user specified by a date range?

I have a whole lot of mail in my /var/mail/user file. Is there some way I can delete all the mail generated in 2016 only?
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Send mail from command line?

How I can send a simple mail from Ubuntu command line without giving the password for the email account which I'm sending to?
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How to use gdb mailing list?

I would like to send an email to gdb mailing list but I cant find on which mail, I have actualy subscribed to mailing list here but it does not provide info how to send an email to that list any thoughts cheers
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MAIL in terminal - how to enter

I have Mail client installed on my Ubuntu server. I know how to send email from terminal and I know how to read email, if I get it. But - how can I enter in Mail client if I don't have any new mail. To be more understandable - I want to enter the…
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Can't create subfolder of INBOX squirrelmail

That is my problem, that I can't createsubfolder of INBOX in squirrelmail (1.4.23). Here is the picture. I can't choose INBOX from the rolling down menu. I want to create there a subfolder like Trash. What is the problem?
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Setup mail server in Ubuntu Server 13.10

For the past week I have been trying to setup a mail system capeable of understanding IMAP/s and SMTP, but after digging though like hundreds of pages, I feel like writing letters again instead of sending emails. Here's my situation: My server is…
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Set hotmail account in Unity Mail

I've been googling for quite some time but nowhere have I found a way to set a hotmail (windows live) account for Unity Mail. In preferences, under server data, I don't know what to put in the host / port fields. Is Hotmail supported by Unity Mail…
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Gnome Mail Icon from top bar shows number of unread email

I'm very new to Ubuntu so please bear with me. On the latest Ubuntu (12.04) I have set up thunderbird to read my Gmail account. I know there are browser addons that show you how many unread emails you have, but is there a way I can get this…
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Setting up email for drupal application for linode 12.04

I've installed ubuntu server 12.04 with linode. What do i need to install to allow my application to be able to send email in and out? Or is this package natively setup with ubuntu 12.04?
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mailx MTA problem in ubuntu server 16.04

This command line works but there isn't attachment (but works all fine in ubuntu 10.04) echo "body of your email" | mailx -a "foo.zip" -s "TEST" foo@foo.com because?
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