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Warhead
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 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: SMTP for SMF...how to set this up? |
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Quick and dirty: I have installed the simple machines forum and now I need an MTA so the forum can send e-mails. Is there any LIGHTWEIGHT and EASY setup for this? I just have to be able to send e-mails via SMTP. No pop3, no ssl, no fancy stuff, just plain SMTP. I found nothing like that in the documentation pages and I am really lost, since I tried to configure netqmail, vpopmail and postfix, but none of it could be convinced to work.
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Warhead
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kashani
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Setting up Postfix in five easy steps.
1. Remove USE flags you don't need and build Postfix
| Code: | echo "mail-mta/postfix -ldap -mysql -postgres -ssl -sasl" >> /etc/portage/package.use
emege postfix
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2. edit /etc/mail/aliases and point root: to a local admin user (ie you) and run newaliases
| Code: | vi /etc/mail/aliases
newaliases
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3. Add these lines to the bottom of your /etc/postfix/main.cf and edit the two fields with <>
| Code: | # local settings
myhostname = $<your_fully_qualified_host_name>
mydomain = $<your_domainname>
myorigin = $mydomin
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
mynetworks_style = subnet
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
reject_unknown_recipient_domain
permit_mynetworks
reject_unauth_destination
permit
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4. Add to default runlevel and start Postfix
| Code: | rc-update add postfix default
/etc/init.d/postfix start
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Dang that was only fours steps... well that's how easy it is. 
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Warhead
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your quick answer.
I created a user called maildemon and then followed your steps. After all the postfix service starts but in the configuration of the forum I want to use I have to give the following information:
mailtype (set so smtp)
SMTPserver (i set that to localhost)
SMTPport (let that on 25)
smtp username (uses the name of my user there)
smtp password (was nut sure, used the accountpasword of the user)
When the forum tries to send an e-mail it fails with the error (according to the forums log):
Couldn't get mail server response codes
SO I guess I misconfigured something, but I do not see it.
Regards
Warhead
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kashani
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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You shouldn't need any usernames and passwords to send mail. Try removing those.
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Warhead
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Well, partly a success...no error messages in the forum log, but none of the mails sent seem to arrive...
Regards
Warhead
PS I have found the content of the mails the forum was supposed to send in:
/var/spool/postfix/maildrop
Does postfix write a log, where I could see, what goes wrong?
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kashani
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Couple things to try.
mailq
This command will should you anything in Postfix's queue and the short reason why its there.
tail -n 500 /var/log/messages | less
Postfix is pretty good about logging why things went wrong.
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Warhead
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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mailq tells me the mail system is down...
/var/log/messages reveals:
postfix/postdrop[11734]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Regards
Warhead
PS: After rebooting my system, the mailservice seems to work. I guess there were some conflicts (I merged and unmerged several MTAs today). But it seems my problem is beyond configuring, bacause when I send a mail to e.g. my googlemail account, it gets bounced:
The IP you're using to send email is not authorized 550-5.7.1 to send email directly to our servers. Please use 550 5.7.1 the SMTP relay at your service provider instead.
PPS: Tried to create another googlemail account for the forum, but I am unable to send via this one to:
Ran into problems sending Mail. Error: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
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kashani
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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And you *thought* you wanted a nice and simple MTA.
There are a couple of solutions here and we're going to try the easiest one first. In your main.cf there is an example of how to set a relayhost.
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# The relayhost parameter specifies the default host to send mail to
# no relayhost is given, mail is routed directly to the destination.
#relayhost = $mydomain
#relayhost = [gateway.my.domain]
#relayhost = [mailserver.isp.tld]
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So at the bottom or your config, I like having all my modifications at the bottom so I don't have to go looking through a large config for them, with the settings you added yesterday add this line. If you have comcast it's likely smtp.comcast.com and stuff like that.
| Code: | | relayhost = mailhost.yourisp.com |
I don't remember if the above needs to be in [] or if you can skip them so keep an eye on the logs after you add it and have restarted Postfix. However your ISP might require you to authenticate before you can send email which is a more complicated config. That should show up in the logs as well so post back with any of that info if it fails.
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