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Unable to send mail to a domain outside my own domain

[UPDATE: The issue fixed itself. I am thinking the relay server which in this case Sendgrid had something to do with this.] Everything was running smoothly until the Dovecot version got updated to 2.3....
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smtp hack attempts and no IP in logs

server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages: Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [...
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Cannot send email via postfix / dovecot error status=deferred (mail transport unavailable)

I am trying to setup a mail server with postfix/dovecot/maria DB on centos 7 and have seem to hit a roadblock. I am not able to send emails to internal users and the logs suggest "mail transport ...
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SMTP Server Dovecot / Exim Authentication error

Recently, I've installed the centOS 6. The purpose of the installation to use this server as Mail server. Where I've installed Exim version 4.84_2 #1 and Dovecot. I've followed this blog post and I'...
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Mail Server user management issue using Postfix+Dovecot+RainLoop

I'm using mail server using postfix+dovecot (over TLS/SSL), RainLoop as my WebClient, and using auth-system.conf.ext so user's password will be read by/from pam. Consider at least 10 users using this ...
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Every email that I receive gets sent to [email protected] (Postfix on CentOS)

It seems that all emails I receive never make it to my actual inbox. They go to the root email. (in my case this is [email protected]) Here is my /var/log/maillog: Nov 10 19:43:43 mail postfix/...
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I can send mail but can't receive it (CentOS with Postfix)

I followed this tutorial and was able to create a mail account that can be configured in an email client. The problem is that I can't receive any messages to my inbox BUT I can send messages ...
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How can I have multiple email accounts from different domains using Postfix?

I just made it through this helpful article and successfully have my mail server set up with a single domain. What I'm wondering now is how I can be able to add multiple email account for different ...
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Cyrus Performance Tweaks?

I have been working with RC for a long time and I know some awesome SQL tweaks that work wonders, etc. My tweaks haven't done a single thing for the kolab install. This the first time I've worked with ...
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Migrate mail from dovecot on centos to dovecot on debian

I am trying to migrate a number of user mail accounts from dovecot 1.0.7 on a centos 5.11 server to dovecot 2.1.7 on a debian 7 server Foolishly I thought I could simply replicate the Maildirs from ...
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Cent OS 6.6 enable Plaintext authentication on dovecot and postfix

A customer of mine wants to use gmail as their default mail client but I have rolled forward to a new CENTOS server version (6.6, ok it's not "new" new) and the dovecot and postfix settings are ...
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Mails bouncing back from Dovecot mail server

we have a dedicated server running CENTOS 6.6 x86_64 standard running and usually comes with whm/cpanel. It is using Dovecot mail server and postfix is excluded in repository. The problems we are ...
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unable establish remote imap connection, why not?

A remote CentOS 7 web server is able to successfully receive email sent from elsewhere on the internet addressed to [email protected] . An app running on the same CentOS 7 server is able to use ...
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Permission problems. Can't retrieve inbox messages from dovecot

I got a VPS server at a webhoster which has CentOS 6.6 as operating system. Because I have multiple domains which are used by various people, this server is going to serve multiple roles: nameserver (...
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How do I read Maildir RFC822 messages from the CentOS 7 terminal?

In a CentOS 7 server with dovecot, postfix, mailx installed, I have mail configured to be stored in Maildir format. How can I use the terminal to access and view the RFC822 messages stored in a ...
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How can I programmatically access the contents of a Dovecot mailbox in CentOS 7?

I just set up postfix and dovecot on a CentOS 7 server using this tutorial. I am able to successfully create a mail record using echo "TEST" | mail -s "testmail" youruser@localhost && tail -f ...
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ACL/MAC Permissions for dovecot and postfix in CentOS 7

I am using this tutorial to set up Postfix and Dovecot on a CentOS 7 web server. But when I try to send a test email using sudo echo "TEST" | mail -s "testmail" newuser@localhost && sudo tail ...
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How do I install Exim and Horde on Centos 7 with MariaDB 10?

I can't find a guide for this (they are old and don't work) and I can't seem to manage to install it. I can't install Postfix because of its dependencies, so I'm going with Exim, which I installed ...
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Mail Server on CentOS - Relay access denied

I have setup Postfix and Dovecot on my CentOS Server. Now I am using unsecure SMTP and POP/IMAP (ports 25 and 110/143). I can send mail locally to and from myself, but when I want to send email TO ...
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Installing Dovecot and Exim on CentOS 6.4

I've been looking for some guides on setting up a secure dovecot and exim mail server setup on CentOS 6.4, however it seems there's nothing out there. Does anyone know of any guides - or - if someone ...
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selinux, dovecot and sieve

I've just started learning to configure SELINUX and this morning on my CentOS 6.4 x64 system, with postfix/dovecot/mysql installed, I woke up to the following selinux issue found 1 alerts in /var/log/...
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