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I use mail/ssmtp with mail via cron to send the output of some scripts to my email. I use a google email to send them to my main email address. Sometimes the email body will say "This message has no content". Here's an example from cron of a script where the email says this. smartctl -a...

This isn't a very important thing, but I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so here goes. Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the "you have mail" notification in the shell (/bin/sh in this case) has changed in FreeBSD 11. It used to be (in all earlier releases) that you could get back...

I've set up ssmtp with my gmail account (and disabled sendmail) following these and these instructions. I can now send mail using the following command: echo "Hello" | mail -s subject someemailaddress@gmail.com I have two specific questions now: Any user can now send mail with the above...

Hello all, I'm new here and I am looking for some help in troubleshooting a mail loop on my machine. I am running Postfix and Amavisd on FreeBSD 10.1 and I'm pretty sure the problem is just matter of something small and stupid that I can't seem to find. I have uploaded the contents of my...

Hello Guys, I tried to install a simple mailserver on my FreeBSD 10.2 following this tutorial: https://www.vultr.com/docs/simple-mailserver-postfix-dovecot-sieve-freebsd-10 But at the last step I get the following error: Mar 22 09:49:27 mailsrv postfix/qmgr[618]: F3CF119B7A5...

I just installed a new version of FreeBSD using 10.2 and I can don't see postfix-sasl package for 2.11. Is the package broken? Do I need to upgrade to 3.2? Can anyone help? root@mta2:~ # pkg search postfix postfix-2.11.7_1,1 Secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail...

I rebooted a Digital Ocean droplet of FreeBSD 10.1-Release and was met with milter-greylist failing to start due to not having been compiled for GeoIP use. So, I went to ports, tried make config and sure enough, the GeoIP option was already selected. A new compile later and still the same...

I have one machine, running up to date FreeBSD 10.2-release: root@trap# freebsd-version -ku 10.2-RELEASE-p7 10.2-RELEASE-p8 root@trap# uname -a FreeBSD trap.kg4.no 10.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p7 #0: Mon Nov 2 14:19:39 UTC 2015...

I successfully set up mail/opensmtpd in a jail running other web services. I set up mail/dkimproxy for mail signing and all, works like a charm. Now, the issue I'm having is that all sent mail has headers like these: Received: from domain.com (domain.com [192.168.1.3]) or Received: from...

I am trying to make my FreeBSD 10.1 jail instance relay to a Gmail account I have. I have Cyrus-SASL installed. Here is my config: root@mta:~ # postconf -n command_directory = /usr/local/sbin config_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix...

I have installed mail/spamassassin, but it is not marking up mail that I send through it with either cat msg | spamassassin > msg1 or cat msg | spamc > msg2 Also, I don't see any way to startup a long running spamassassin/spamc like I could with an rc.d script under Linux. Surely there must be...