Select Internet Site to enable Postfix to sent and received mails and press Enter to proceed. Set the mail name. Mail name specifies the domain part that is used in a mail ID, e. Define the path to CA certificates. Since Postfix is acting a as mail client, it has to know when to provide a username and password. The credentials are set in plaintext. Hence to make it abit secured, change ownership and permission to root and read-write only respectively. You can tail the logs to check what is happening.
If you encounter such an error SASL authentication failed; server smtp. Use your web browser to confirm your email login credentials by logging in to Gmail. When prompted, select Internet Site as the type of mail server the Postfix installer should configure. Follow these steps to configure Gmail to create a Postfix-specific password:. Log in to your Google Account and navigate to the Manage your account access and security settings page. Scroll down to Signing in to Google section and enable 2-Step Verification.
You may be asked for your password and a verification code before continuing. In that same section, click on App passwords to generate a unique password that can be used with Postfix. Click the Select app dropdown and choose Other custom name. The newly generated password will appear.
To restrict access to these files, change their permissions so that only the root user can read from or write to the file. Thanks a million. I hope I will be able to send with attachments too!!! Thany you so much… You deserve the best. Thank you. I have ssmtp on my server, but cron did not like to use it. Please help me. I changed myhostname ODIN2. This tutorial has been very helpful many times.
However, I am stuck with a couple of clients using Zoho at my recommendation as it is free-er. Do you have any experience setting up postfix with Zoho? If you do, would you be willing to write another lovely tutorial?
I never used Zoho mail. Try replacing [smtp. Replacing with [smtp. I happened to get Postfix work with Zoho email while setting up gitlab. Details are here. Details Link. Thank you very much for this excellent tutorial. It works fine on Ubuntu However, if you manage to get this working on Ubuntu And how to debug if the testrun fails? Dear, excellent posting, followed step by step and working like a charm.
All the best! Regards raja. Learn more at? Worked on Ubuntu I spent like 4 days with sendmail, postfix, dns server set up. So fed up with all these tech challenges.
Finally reinstall Ubunut and you post saved me! Hi, thanks for your guide. I got it to work for outgoing emails from [email protected] What must i do to get it to work for incoming emails sent to gmail?
I tried searching on the internet but came up with nothing :. Hopefully you have a solution for me. This article deals with outgoing mails only. Your server cannot receive incoming emails for [email protected] from outside world. Incoming mail is whole different topic. I did what you said but when i check Sentmail, the mail is not there…the resident also did not recieve any mail. Still the mail is sent via my fqdn and not gmail.
Did you follow instructions in above article? Reverse Dns not working in my fqdn. I think you are having problem for sending to only one particular domains — your FQDN in this case. Check postfix value for mydestination setting. If its anything apart from localhost , or contains your FQDN, then remove that value from there.
Not sure what are you asking for? You can use an email address with Google Apps mail. Hello sir, thank you for your great tutorials, i know this is not the right place for this but unfortunely im a windows user with xampp server, i configured my php. Thanks a lot Rahul for such a precise, concise post. It served me really well and saved up a LOT of time to do a quick mail test.
Thank you for this tutorial! I got my gmail smtp on postfix to work, Quick question which I really pray u have an answer for it! How do I configure fail2ban for postfix if I followed your tutorial?
The same way you would have configured when not using Gmail as reply in postfix. I guess fail2ban comes into picture if you are running a public SMTP server. In this case, it is assumed that postfix is not accessible to the outside world via SMTP.
Gmail accounts has very low sending limits. In this tutorial, you will learn how to send email from Gmail with Postfix on Ubuntu. Prerequisites are that you have sudo access to a modern version of Ubuntu and a Google account. The first part of the Postfix installation is a text-base user interface.
Use you keyboard to select Internet Site for the type of mail configuration. On the next screen, enter the domain name of your server.
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