Archive for the 'Mail' Category

Sending mails from command line

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Often times, we want to send log files or other emails from command line or want to script them. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do that using two mail clients mail and mutt.

Creating and restoring an image of hard disk with Clonezilla

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging, cloning and backup software. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. You can use it to clone single or multiple machines. It is more feature-rich than commercial Norton Ghost. In this video tutorial, I will [...]

Configuring Postfix and dovecot POP3 and IMAP on Red Hat or Centos using local system accounts

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Postfix is one of the most widely deployed mail servers. In this tutorial, I will first show you how to configure Postfix for local system accounts and then I will describe how to configure Dovecot for POP and IMAP servers so remote users can retrieve their emails using email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution or [...]

Postfix send-only configuration for non-local domains

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Sometimes, we need to configure our mail server so that it only sends emails and not receive them which avoids opening port 25 for smtp. In this tutorial, I will show a very simple way to set up Postfix so it send emails out to external domains only and not receive any emails from outside.