Questions tagged [smtp]

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a protocol that facilitates communication with a server application capable of sending electronic mail (e-mail).

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ISP Blocked port 25 because of spamming

Main question: Is it even possible to be be infected with a bot/spamming software on Ubuntu (or any other distro)? Details: My ISP blocked my port 25 (and 465) for outgoing connections (outbound connections, from home to remote server) to SMTP, so I…
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Setup a local testing SMTP server

I need to set up an SMTP server, really the goal is so that this server has no communication with the outside world, I would create the server, and would want a mail client looking at messages the server generates (brownie points if all messages go…
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Why was heirloom-mailx deleted from Ubuntu 18.04?

It broke my mail agent, since I need to redirect to an external smtp server, and nothing else seems to do that properly.
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Sendmail account for sending e-mail on Ubuntu

I've got a clean installation of Ubuntu with Webmin running Sendmail. I've got a domain mail.my-domain.com pointing at that server. I want to make a SMTP account for sending out e-mails, such as account-name@my-domain.com. How do I do this? For the…
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smtp authentication virtual domain ubuntu 14.4

two domains configured as virtual domains and ubuntu 14.4 installed: I need to configure smtp authentication for dovecot, without authentication it is working I have go through several docs but non of these are suit for my solution…
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How to check which SMTP client I have installed?

How do I check which SMTP client I have installed? And how do I configure it?
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Can I setup an smtp server with Ubuntu Desktop?

I want to run an smtp server that will distribute email alerts from various servers.
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How to set up SMTP?

I want to send mail from a local server. I tried to install sudo apt-get install postfix but it showed this error Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/postfix/postfix Please help me to enable SMTP in Ubuntu.
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Port 25 (smtp) connection timed out

I created a postfix smtp server, earlier today it was working but now i can't connect to it. It gives me a "connection timed out" error. Even those online smtp checkers work. My friend also says he can't connect. I am running this in a cloud vm…