Questions tagged [gmail]

Free e-mail service offered by Google. Mail can be accessed through webmail or through the POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.

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how to fix "send-mail: Authorization failed 534 5.7.14 "

I am trying to create e-mail alert on ssh root login so I had to install ssmtp and mail utility. Then I configured ssmtp.conf file as follows : # Config file for sSMTP sendmail # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 # Make this empty to…
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sendmail can not deliver to gmail - IPv6 sending guidelines regarding PTR records not met

I am having trouble in delivering mail to google from a fresh sendmail install on ubuntu 14.04. The DNS-records seem to be fine for the ip. Something else must be wrong. Sending mail from command line: sudo sendmail -v -Am -i…
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Remove "via" from emails sent to Gmail from Amazon SES

When sending emails from Amazon SES, gmail shows "sent via amazonses.com". How do I remove this? According to Google, I'm a sender and I don't want my recipients to see the "via" link. What can I do? Gmail checks whether emails are correctly…
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Google SMTP Error: 454 4.7.0 Too many login attempts, please try again later

I discovered that while it was possible to use Gmail/Google Apps as an SMTP server for scripted use, if too many emails were sent I started getting error messages: SMTP Error: 454 4.7.0 Too many login attempts, please try again later. Usually if I…
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What issues are there in using Gmail for a corporate email solution?

Some people will feel uncomfortable with having their company email outside their company network. How to allay such fears? What other issues are there in using Google for corporate email? What are the benefits?
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smtp.gmail.com from bash gives "Error in certificate: Peer's certificate issuer is not recognized."

I needed my script to email admin if there is a problem, and the company only uses Gmail. Following a few posts instructions I was able to set up mailx using a .mailrc file. there was first the error of nss-config-dir I solved that by copying some…
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GMail bouncing mail sent over IPv6, IPv4 working

I have trouble sending email to GMail addresses using IPv6 from my domain camgirltools.net If IPv4 is used, everything works as intended, the mail is delivered. When using IPv6 to send mail to GMail (other parties work) I get a bounce mail…
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How I stop spam backscatter rendering email on my domain unusable?

Some miscreant is using non-existent accounts on my domain as a forged sender for spam emails (i.e., sdfhdfsg@mydomain.com). All the out-of-office and spam rejection emails are coming back to me (since my domain is set up to pass me anything…
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simple postfix configuration - forward all incoming email to single address

I've a Ubuntu 9.04 server installation which is hosting a small number of websites (currently two, and will remain in single figures). The email requirements for the server are very limited - to send outgoing emails and forward all incoming emails…
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Gmail rejects emails. Openspf.net fails the tests

I've got a problem with Gmail. It started after one of our trojan infected PCs sent spam for one day from our IP address. We've fixed the problem, but we got into 3 black lists. We've fixed that, too. But still every time we send an email to Gmail…
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Gmail flagging Dovecot email as insecure

I thought I successfully secured my Postfix/Dovecot email server. I have a signed certificate from LetsEncrypt, which is valid for my domain. Sending & receiving works fine, but since Gmail started flagging insecure emails, all mail sent from my…
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Postfix emails detected as spam with gmail

I know that there are a few posts about this and I have been reading them for a while now but still, I can't resolve my issue. I’m running ISPconfig with postfix and I can’t figure out why my outgoing emails are marked as spam in gmail and…
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Why is my email failing Gmail's DKIM test?

I have a message that was rejected by Gmail, I don't know why. It passes SPF. We aren't using DKIM. Do I need to set up DKIM? I am in control of "example.com". Our mail server is "server.example.com" (hosted at bluehost) Our SPF record is v=spf1 +a…
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monit send email does not work

I am trying to use monit, and set up email server using gmail. The configuration file is like this: set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 username "someuser@gmail.com" password "password" using tlsv1 with timeout 30 seconds And I set an alert to…
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postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied

I'm configuring Postfix to use external smtp. For this, I used this tutorial After following it, I found in the logs that /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db couldn't be read. The file didn't exist. I used postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd…
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