The main purpose of these domains is to forward mail elsewhere. This is useful if you do not have local mail boxes and your server is not acting as MX backup do not use the following if relay_domains, sql map or virtual map is configured. Type mail in the command-line terminal and see if you have mail. This is an email on debian postfix over telnet. Type telnet .uk 25 and you should see: 220 .uk ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) Reload Postfix Server: sudo postfix reload Test the mail server
Now add the domain names that your system will handle: sudo postconf -e 'relay_domains =, , ' Additional configuration settingsĪdd your domain to the config files, so others can't abuse your mail system: sudo postconf -e 'myorigin = 'Īdd your hostname (computer name), use command hostname to display your hostname if not sure: sudo postconf -e 'myhostname = .uk' at the bottom of the file if not already there and then reboot. You need to disable IPv6 by modifying sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf to include the line: inet_protocols = ipv4 Postfix: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support: Address family not supported by protocol If you are getting warnings in your log files that look similar to the following: Once installation is complete, you will be able to receive mail from your Raspberry Pi web server. Set the system mail name to your fully qualified domain name, which may be pre-filled for you. It is important that you've already set the hostname as we're asked to confirm it at this stage. The Postfix setup will begin and you will see a blue screen with some information on the various configuration types use the Tab key to highlight and click OK.
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Run the following command to make sure you're running the latest software updates: sudo apt-get update.īegin the Postfix Installation by entering sudo apt-get install postfix and confirm Y when prompted. You will need to open Port 25 – SMTP to you Raspberry Pi via your router.
We need to ensure that outgoing emails can be sent from the Raspberry Pi by installing Postfix a mail transport agent.
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You will also want your server to be able to handle emails being sent to article will details exactly how to achieve this. If you have seen my previous 2 articles creating a Raspberry Pi web server and creating a Raspberry Pi LAMP server, you will almost definately want to be able to allow your websites to send emails. Creating a Raspberry Pi Mail server Contents
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