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Basic question for email server

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hey all, I have a very basic question. Do I need anything besides Postfix to receive emails? To send them out, I use SendGrid, but I can't seem to grasp the basics for receiving emails. I would guess that when someone sends it to example@domain.com, the traffic would find it's way to domain.com and the server would put it in example's email directories. Is it really that basic, or am I missing something? If you know of any prior posts that reference these basics, please send them my way. And thanks again for the help! ---------- Post added at 11:06 PM ---------- Previous post was (HowTos)

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Submitted by unic on 01/06/2013

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I am looking to trial having a mailbox on a Domino server - prior to moving the whole domain over upon successful proof of concept.

The current environment has:

Mail hosted, available via POP3 or IMAP. Domino users all send mail from one mailbox. The Domino environment has been configured as follows:

All users share the same email file (as all emails must go from that one user). There is a glob

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Reply from Catchall 29 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Everyone,

I'm on 11.34x and have a question about catch all. I am sure many of you to avoid SPAM use emails such as google@domain.com and cpanel@domain.com all going to one email account. This works great for spam because when companies like lastfm had a breach, I just send that email address into a black hole.

My question comes around replying.

I successfully installed and configured Exim4 on my Debian/Squeeze machine, so now I am able to send outgoing emails with a command like this:

exim4 -v recipient@domain.com From: sender@domain.com To: recipient@domain.com Subject: Test email

Body of the email .

Is there a similar command to RETRIEVE emails into the Maildir folder?

NOTE: The emails I want to retrieve are from another email ser