I want to be able to send email directly from my linux box. I have both a CentOS and Debian installation. I am by no means an expert when it comes to all of the SMTP servers. I have been testing different configs by installing and uninstalling sendmail, postfix, and exim4.
Network: My servers all sit behind NAT with a private IP address and they are not resolvable from the internet.
Requirement: I want to be able to send emails directly from the SMTP service without having to rely on an SMTP smarthost such as google. This is a "send only" requirement.
In my testing, the only configuration I was able to get to send outbound email was through my "paid for" Google SMTP smarthost. And even then I was unable to send email to domains outside of Gmail from my linux box. And I want to avoid relying on an SMTP smarthost.
I have used mutt/mail before with exim and others before without any prior configuration. But just my luck, when I want it to work it just doesn't work at all.
Has anyone got a working config for any of the email servers or a recommendation on what I should configure, or anything I am doing wrong. I have using the following basic guide and googling for solutions:
There are two distinct errors, one of which is this one:
Code:
smtp[29216]: B302E4077585D: to=<email@example.com>, relay=none, delay=15561, delays=15560/0.03/0.1/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (mail for localhost loops back to myself)
In another configuration, the error tells me something like "A fully qualified is required" (sorry I don't have access to this error to post right now, but can post later)
The command I am using is the following, but I have also tried with "mail." Although I'm sure this has nothing to do with the command I am using. The same errors in the log occur what ever variation of the command I use.
im running Solaris9.
sendmail version 8.13
every now and then my smtp server is being blacklisted resulting to relay denied to some of my client.
what is the very first thing i have to implement?
thanks (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I've got this Java script which needs to know the SMTP host in order to send out mails from a particular mail ID. But I have no idea how or what to configure in SMTP for getting this code up and running.(All I know is SMTP=Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
I'm using Solaris 5.8.... (1 Reply)
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I have an issue where email is working fine in our Windows environments but is blowing up in our AIX environments.
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Sending e-mails to: xxxxxx
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hi guys
I have to configure a SMTP server using Postfix, ok let me tell the domain is located at godaddy so my smtp postfix server has to use that domain let's say mycompany.com
so anyone knows how to configure postfix using this way?
or postfix is easy to configure?
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
mailer.conf
MAILER.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5)NAME
mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mailer.conf contains a series of lines of the form
name program [arguments ...]
The first word of each line is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8). (For example, on a typical system /usr/sbin/sendmail would be
a symbolic link to mailwrapper(8), as would newaliases(1) and mailq(1). Thus, name might be ``sendmail'' or ``newaliases'' etc.)
The second word of each line is the name of the program to actually execute when the first name is invoked.
The further arguments, if any, are passed to the program, followed by the arguments mailwrapper(8) was called with.
The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a '#' mark in the first column of any line.
The default mailer is postfix(1), which will also start by default (unless specifically disabled via an rc.conf(5) setting) so that locally
generated mail can be delivered, if the ``sendmail'' setting in /etc/mailer.conf is set to ``/usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail''.
FILES
/etc/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
This example shows how to set up mailer.conf to invoke the postfix(1) program:
sendmail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
This example shows the use of the mini-sendmail package from pkgsrc in place of postfix(1):
# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini-sendmail
sendmail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini-sendmail -srelayhost
send-mail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini-sendmail -srelayhost
Note the use of additional arguments.
SEE ALSO mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), postfix(1), mailwrapper(8)
pkgsrc/mail/sendmail, pkgsrc/mail/mini_sendmail
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
BUGS
The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the ``behave
differently if invoked with a different name'' behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away.
BSD April 10, 2010 BSD
08-28-2016
SMTP Server Configuration
