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Top Forums Web Development SMTP Server Configuration Post 302980475 by landossa on Sunday 28th of August 2016 07:43:38 PM
Old 08-28-2016
Wrench SMTP Server Configuration

Hello list,

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:

How To Install and Configure Postfix as a Send-Only SMTP Server on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

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.

Code:
mutt email@example.com -s "Subject" < body.txt

As always, this has to be something really simple!
Thanks!
Smilie
Ll
 

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Catalyst::View::Email(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				Catalyst::View::Email(3pm)

NAME
Catalyst::View::Email - Send Email from Catalyst SYNOPSIS
This module sends out emails from a stash key specified in the configuration settings. CONFIGURATION
WARNING: since version 0.10 the configuration options slightly changed! Use the helper to create your View: $ script/myapp_create.pl view Email Email In your app configuration: __PACKAGE__->config( 'View::Email' => { # Where to look in the stash for the email information. # 'email' is the default, so you don't have to specify it. stash_key => 'email', # Define the defaults for the mail default => { # Defines the default content type (mime type). Mandatory content_type => 'text/plain', # Defines the default charset for every MIME part with the # content type text. # According to RFC2049 a MIME part without a charset should # be treated as US-ASCII by the mail client. # If the charset is not set it won't be set for all MIME parts # without an overridden one. # Default: none charset => 'utf-8' }, # Setup how to send the email # all those options are passed directly to Email::Sender::Simple sender => { # if mailer doesn't start with Email::Sender::Simple::Transport::, # then this is prepended. mailer => 'SMTP', # mailer_args is passed directly into Email::Sender::Simple mailer_args => { Host => 'smtp.example.com', # defaults to localhost username => 'username', password => 'password', } } } ); NOTE ON SMTP
If you use SMTP and don't specify host, it will default to localhost and attempt delivery. This often means an email will sit in a queue and not be delivered. SENDING EMAIL
Sending email is just filling the stash and forwarding to the view: sub controller : Private { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->stash->{email} = { to => 'jshirley@gmail.com', cc => 'abraxxa@cpan.org', bcc => join ',', qw/hidden@secret.com hidden2@foobar.com/, from => 'no-reply@foobar.com', subject => 'I am a Catalyst generated email', body => 'Body Body Body', }; $c->forward( $c->view('Email') ); } Alternatively you can use a more raw interface and specify the headers as an array reference like it is passed to Email::MIME::Creator. Note that you may also mix both syntaxes if you like ours better but need to specify additional header attributes. The attributes are appended to the header array reference without overwriting contained ones. $c->stash->{email} = { header => [ To => 'jshirley@gmail.com', Cc => 'abraxxa@cpan.org', Bcc => join ',', qw/hidden@secret.com hidden2@foobar.com/, From => 'no-reply@foobar.com', Subject => 'Note the capitalization differences', ], body => qq{Ain't got no body, and nobody cares.}, # Or, send parts parts => [ Email::MIME->create( attributes => { content_type => 'text/plain', disposition => 'attachment', charset => 'US-ASCII', }, body => qq{Got a body, but didn't get ahead.}, ) ], }; HANDLING ERRORS
If the email fails to send, the view will die (throw an exception). After your forward to the view, it is a good idea to check for errors: $c->forward( $c->view('Email') ); if ( scalar( @{ $c->error } ) ) { $c->error(0); # Reset the error condition if you need to $c->response->body('Oh noes!'); } else { $c->response->body('Email sent A-OK! (At least as far as we can tell)'); } USING TEMPLATES FOR EMAIL
Now, it's no fun to just send out email using plain strings. Take a look at Catalyst::View::Email::Template to see how you can use your favourite template engine to render the mail body. METHODS
new Validates the base config and creates the Email::Sender::Simple object for later use by process. process($c) The process method does the actual processing when the view is dispatched to. This method sets up the email parts and hands off to Email::Sender::Simple to handle the actual email delivery. setup_attributes($c, $attr) Merge attributes with the configured defaults. You can override this method to return a structure to pass into generate_message which subsequently passes the return value of this method to Email::MIME->create under the "attributes" key. generate_message($c, $attr) Generate a message part, which should be an Email::MIME object and return it. Takes the attributes, merges with the defaults as necessary and returns a message object. TROUBLESHOOTING
As with most things computer related, things break. Email even more so. Typically any errors are going to come from using SMTP as your sending method, which means that if you are having trouble the first place to look is at Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP. This module is just a wrapper for Email::Sender::Simple, so if you get an error on sending, it is likely from there anyway. If you are using SMTP and have troubles sending, whether it is authentication or a very bland "Can't send" message, make sure that you have Net::SMTP and, if applicable, Net::SMTP::SSL installed. It is very simple to check that you can connect via Net::SMTP, and if you do have sending errors the first thing to do is to write a simple script that attempts to connect. If it works, it is probably something in your configuration so double check there. If it doesn't, well, keep modifying the script and/or your mail server configuration until it does! SEE ALSO
Catalyst::View::Email::Template - Send fancy template emails with Cat Catalyst::Manual - The Catalyst Manual Catalyst::Manual::Cookbook - The Catalyst Cookbook AUTHORS
J. Shirley <jshirley@gmail.com> Alexander Hartmaier <abraxxa@cpan.org> CONTRIBUTORS
(Thanks!) Matt S Trout Daniel Westermann-Clark Simon Elliott <cpan@browsing.co.uk> Roman Filippov Lance Brown <lance@bearcircle.net> Devin Austin <dhoss@cpan.org> Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2009 the Catalyst::View::Email "AUTHORS" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above. LICENSE
This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2011-01-17 Catalyst::View::Email(3pm)
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