Questions related to email setup and troubleshooting. Most questions can be tagged with your email client (such as "thunderbird" or "evolution")
Questions tagged [email]
1337 questions
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How to send mail from the command line?
How to send mail from the command line?
Olivier Lalonde
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How to make crontab email me with output?
How can I make crontab email me with the output of its jobs? I have MAILTO=redacted@yahoo.com.au above the jobs, but it doesn't work.
I know I need to use something like Postfix or Sendmail but for the life of me I cannot find out how to achieve…
Clonkex
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How to open eml files?
I've got a mail with eml file attached. I'm using Thunderbird but it doesn't open it.
Could anybody suggest program to open eml files?
Update:
I don't want to import my mailbox I want only read the content of eml file.
ksimon
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How do I set up an email server?
My VPS is running Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to receive email to my domain.
How do I easily set up a mail server to do this?
Stefano Palazzo
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Can I get a combined inbox in Thunderbird?
I've setup Thunderbird (default in 12.04) with five mail accounts. Unfortunatly, every mail address is shown only with its own inbox, sent...
How can I get a combined inbox for all addresses? I've searched for extensions, but did not find any that…
user24668
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cron.daily jobs not running
I created 3 daily cron jobs to run.
Below are the three that are placed in etc/cron.daily
rkhunter.sh
#!/bin/sh
(
rkhunter --versioncheck
rkhunter --update
rkhunter --cronjob --report-warnings-only
) | mail -s 'rkhunter Daily Run (my server)'…
sonicboom
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How to make Gmail open when clicking mailto: links in the same browser it is clicked? (Chrome/Firefox)
I just installed 12.04 and when clicking mailto: links Thunderbird opens.
I want Gmail to open in the browser, in which mailto: was clicked.
So if I am in Firefox and click a mailto: link a new FF tab should with Gmail should open.
And if I am in…
max
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How can I email an attachment from the command line
Is it possible to email attachments from the command line?
If possible, I'd like something as simple as:
mail -a myfile.txt -t me@example.com -s "Here's my file"
conorgriffin
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View threads/conversations in Evolution just like Gmail can
I want to view threaded email conversations in Evolution. Is there a menu option for this? By threaded conversations I mean something like what Google's GMail does.
user5245
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Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?
When I click on a link to an email address in Firefox or Google Chrome a "Welcome to Evolution" screen appears. Can I make Gmail open instead, or at the very least disable Evolution from running?
ændrük
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How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is inserted?
We are running more than 600 Ubuntu systems in our company. It is a data centre so we have certain policies. We have disabled the usage of storage devices in all the Ubuntu systems. However we would like to configure email alerts. If someone inserts…
karthick87
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How do I configure exim4 to send mail through a password protected ssl smtp mail server?
I'd like my cronjobs to be able to send mail from my home computer. My servers configure exim4 like…
Stephen Ostermiller
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Thunderbird or Evolution?
Before I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 (I formatted my harddisk and installed it), I used thunderbird.
Now I wanted to test out evolution. I think it's pretty good, because there are integrated notifications and encryption methods. Another thing is…
omnidan
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How can I convert .msg files (Outlook email message) into .eml?
I have just started using Ubuntu & Thunderbird.
I have saved my Outlook emails in my hard disk and they have an .msg extension. Now when I try to open them in Thunderbird it doesn't open them because Thunderbird used .eml extension.
Please advise…
Furqan
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Is there a setting to make Firefox not directly download PDFs to Downloads when using "Open With"?
Ubuntu MATE 20.04
Possible culprits:
Email client: Thunderbird
PDF reader: Atril
Browser: Firefox v. 104.0
None are snaps.
For years I've been getting a .pdf copy of a newspaper via links emailed to me. The emails are html formatted, and I click a…
Organic Marble
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