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- ## Relay mails to an external SMTP server
- This shows you how to send mails from a - in this case virtual debian server
- inside VirtualBox - server to an external SMTP server. You can use your own
- server, Gmail or any other SMTP server you have access to.
- This can then be used to send mail from PHP, Rails, Python, console or whatever you like.
- The steps are for a debian wheezy server.
- **You will need:**
- * a username and password for the smtp server
- * the address and port of the smtp server
- * a (virtual) server
- ### Install sSMTP
- sudo apt-get install ssmtp
- ### Configure sSMTP
- Open the config file and make it look like the following. Change all uppercase strings
- (except the YES and NOs) to the your personal login, server, etc. I did not replace
- the port, as it should be the standard of 587.
- sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
- #
- # Config file for sSMTP sendmail
- #
- # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
- # Make this empty to disable rewriting.
- root=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS_HERE
- # The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
- # MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
- mailhub=YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_HERE:587
- # Where will the mail seem to come from?
- # Set it to something like yourdomainname.com
- rewriteDomain=YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME_HERE
- # The full hostname
- hostname=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
- # Do not replace the YES ;)
- UseSTARTTLS=YES
- AuthUser=YOUR_USERNAME_FOR_THE_SMTP_SERVER
- AuthPass=YOUR_PASSWORD_FOR_THE_SMTP_SERVER
- # Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
- # YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
- # NO - Use the system generated From: address
- FromLineOverride=YES
- Save the file with ctrl+x
- You can configure forwarding of mails in the following file. You don't need to if you
- don't want/need forwarding.
- sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/revaliases
- # sSMTP aliases
- #
- # Format: local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub
- #
- # Example: root:your_login@your.domain:mailhub.your.domain[:port]
- # where [:port] is an optional port number that defaults to 25.
- root:YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS:YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_HERE:587
- Save it with ctrl+x
- ### Test it
- You can test it with the following command on the commandline:
- sudo ssmtp YOUR_EMAIL_HERE
- Type some words, add a new line and close with (double) `crtl+d` to send the message.
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