What is the simplest way I can get a secure, authenticated SMTP server running on my Linux machine so my family can use it to send mail from hostile networks?
Currently I have exim bound to 127.1:25 so if I can send mail from my laptop using ssh -L2525:localhost:25 wolever.net... But I'd like exim (or some other SMTP server) to bind to, eg, 0.0.0.0:2525 and accept authenticated SMTP connections.
I am new to the Ubuntu Community and just starting to build my Ubuntu 10.04 Server. I am a novice in Ubuntu, though maybe not a full n00b any more
I travel around a lot with my laptop, (also Ubuntu 10.04). However, my ISP does not allow me to send email via their SMTP when I am not in their IP range.
Since I have this little server I am building, I thought it would be nice if I could have my own SMTP relay. The objectives would be simple:
- I do not need a mailbox or POP server (yet).
- I wish to send email from any place in the world. I can not use a filter on IP ranges or local networks only.
- If my server could do this, I just configure Evolution on my laptop to send mail to my home IP address, using some sort of authentication and/or security/encryption (whichever is easy to implement).
- My server then just forwards my mail to my ISP. Since the server is inside the IP range, it can be handled as usual.
I have been digging through several howto's and the ubuntu server guide, searching some forums etc. Even while I don't fully grasp the things explained, I can't get the idea that one of those is "Just what I need".
Even still, if there is some other service outside my own that can do this (a public SMTP relay maybe?) I would also be happy to consider as long as it is safe and does not "eavesdrop" on my messages.
I have a domain name registered in asianet.com, they provide email service also, can i use local mail server and registrar's smtp server at same time?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn order to have greater control over the emails sent out the company I imagined the following scenario.ScenarioDescribing in words what I need.ser sends an email to user@hotmail.com for example, using the smtp of my isp (is the internet).Before the email is sent, the firewall checks if the recipient is blocked transparent, if you are locked out rejects the email.I searched several forums and mailing lists, but did not find scenarios similar to mine.Where found situations in which the mail servers were internally in the company, which is not my case.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a CentOS server, and am using Sendmail to relay for various domains. However, I also need to have users send their outgoing mail via this server. I want to have them enter a username and password in Outlook, Thunderbird, etc in their smtp server settings. I currently have this set up via an Exchange server, but I cannot get it to work with Sendmail. I know little about Sendmail, and have done all the config via Webmin, which has worked fine as far as relaying domains. But even though I have added the CentOS user account for the smtp relaying, the clients mail apps give an error saying relaying denied.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've attached my squid.conf, I'm creating a proxy server along with a content filter for work using dansguardian and squid, recently my boss asked me to allow a few ips to bypass squid without being authenticated now i thought this config might do it but it seems to be reluctant to let this computer through without being authenticated
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View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm hoping someone here can help, as I've been beating my head on the wall for a week now with little advancement. I've found a number of tutorials on setting this up, however none of them have gotten me 100% of the way there. Here's my situation: home-based Fedora server (Core 8), running sendmail 8.14.2-1. Connecting to hosting company's smtp server over port 587, to bypass Verizon's blocking of port 25.
My /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file looks like this (comment lines removed):Quote:
divert(-1)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp2.datarealm.com')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN')dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash -o /etc/mail/auth/client-info.db')dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER', `esmtp')dnl
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How to communicate with an SMTP server with telnet, in order to send a mail?
telnet smtp.something.somewhere 53 Trying
10.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to smtp.something.somewhere.
Escape character is '^]'.
And that is as far as I got. What do I have to do after?
What do I have to write after "HELO"?
I have installed a linux server in my office to run 16 machines. Its main use will be a internal mail server but will be also running websites.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 server x64 and have got apache running.
I am looking for the simplest more robust solution for smtp, pop3 and imap. I have only ever used qmail before and found it a pain to configure and its getting old so I though I should probably try something new. I have not much experience with running pop3 or imap on linux so would love a suggestion on that.
Im trying to set up a Proxy server on my CentOS server and I have been looking at Squid, however I wondered if there is a proxy server that will support having authenticated users and passwords in a MySQL database?I wanted to do this so I have good control over who is connected through my proxy.
View 6 Replies View RelatedFilter access server through the net only to authenticated users from domain controller (Win2k). Server (Centos)(Firewall with 2 nic), which makes access to the net, with only 196MB RAM (PIII500Mhz), so I do not want a solution based on proxy or what resources it uses large I want a solution with a script that runs at login on windows this check series HDD and to communicate with Linux server that's open accessor another simple solutionNow just use only MAC filtering on
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Is there a way to reset my password as my [now only] key-authenticated user?
Specifically, can this be done on CentOS 4?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedwe have a Red Hat server and I'm using wget in crontab to run some PHP scripts. We've been doing this for some time now and it's been working fine.I tried to add another script using wget to run a PHP script behind HTTP authentication. However, despite the fact that the URL works fine and the username and password are correct, we are getting Connection Timed Out errors each time. What might cause wget to work for unauthenticated URLs, but not authenticated ones?
I've tried --user=/--password=, --http-user=/--http-password and Username:Password@ in the URL and all three fail the same way. Here's the command in question:
[blahblah user]# wget -t 5 -O /dev/null 'http://Username:Password1!@test.example.com/sub/dir/file-name.php'
--2010-07-07 10:11:55-- http://Username:*password*@test.example.com/sub/dir/file-name.php
Resolving test.example.com... 000.000.000.000
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Again, wget works, the file with authentication works, but wget calling the file with authentication does not work.
UPDATE: Actually, I get the same timeout if I access the authenticated URL without authentication. Could that mean that Apache is rejecting wget requests for authentication outright?
my postfix to send and recive external emails, but many recive in trash folder.Other programer say me that is need some configurations in postfix with and dovecot to work, but i dont know what!This is my first time configuring a linux server at this week.
my main.conf
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES
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Im not able to find good response on this from google, urgent help required.
While im looking at my smtp server log at /var/log/maillog, im having these two errors for which im unable to find the reason.
1)Could not open inline file /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/inline.sig.txt, No such file or directory
2)did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
I've got an uber simple test mail script in php on my awesome new dev machine running Ubuntu:
PHP Code:
Unfortunately, something is preventing mail delivery. I can't tell from this error log whether it's the remote machine rejecting me or whether it's my machine rejecting the self-signed cert on the remote machine:
Code:
I'm wondering what I could change in my postfix configuration to remedy this problem.
I tried setting smtp_tls_security_level = may = may but this did not change anything.
I'm using postfix to send some mail from my cloud server via a web page on my website that uses PHPmailer to do SMTP authentication. My cloud server has a dedicated IP for all inbound and outbound data. The problem I am having is that it sends roughly 75 - 100 messages successfully before it returns the following error for the remaining few hundred recipients in my list:
SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: example@example.com Mailer Error [URL] SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: example@example.com SMTP server error: 5.5.0 Sender already specified
Somewhere out there there has to be someone that can help me set up my lamp server to send automated emails using my cable providers SMTP server
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to configure Postfix with a mail server that I programmed in C. The main.cf is set in this way :
Code:
relayhost = [myMailServer.localhost]
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
smtp_use_tls = no
disable_dns_lookups=yes
smtp_never_send_ehlo = yes
code....
I don't know why it doesn't receive response after HELO. In fact if I debug my mail server with gdb, I can see it sends a 250 response code. Moreover, I've tested my server both with traditional mail clients, as Thunderbird, and through telnet session and it works very well.
I have a server that runs on a static IP address with many hosting accounts. I am using the IspCP to manage the different sites. When a mail is sent, the headers include the box's own domain name: [URL]. Now [URL] is no longer active, so if an email from another account: [URL] sends mail, there is possibility that this mail is rejected by the receiver, if the receiver system does rDNS.
The receiving server will check the headers smtp sent from [URL] and come up as a fake, because [URL] is no longer registered. I wonder if there is a way to make the smtp headers reflect only the domain name that sent the mail. Then if joe sends mail, the server should replace[URL] with [URL]. If this is possible, then users that send mail will not get bounced because the rDNS lookup will map [URL] to the ip and the mail will be accepted.
we have qmail server installed on rhl 9. it was working perfectly fine for last 1 year. suddenly it stopped accepting emails from internet. when i telnet on port 25 it takes about 90 secs to show the SMTP ready state.I have tried many things
1. stopped Reverse DNS Lookup by adding -H to qmail-smtpd/run file
2. stopped spamassing and AV
3. reverified DNS server settings in resolv.conf
4. dig is resolving dns query properly.
i also observed that when i do telnet to
telnet localhost 25 response is very quick
but when i do
telnet local_server_IP_address 25
it takes aprx 90 secs to show me SMTP ready messege.
can someone shed some light on this as what should i do next to rectify this problem..
I come back to everybody cause I don't find an explicit how to do this!In our internal network, I've created an email server with Postfix and Dovecot. (Just for internal domain, no needed to go outside)
But I've some server which use linux too. All are on CentOS 5.5.I would like to configure these servers to use my internal mail server for send email, and not configure sendmail or postfix on each server.
What I've to do exactly on each servers to use it? I search on the web but I don't find something very explicit
I've got a server set up with Debian. The problem is that my ISP doesn't allow usage of port 25 (as I understand a lot of ISP's don't).I have PHP scripts hat use the mail() function to send e-mails through the Sendmail application.So, my question is: How can I relay messages sent to sendmail to an external SMTP server (like Google Mail, for example)? Would this be easier to do in the PHP configuration, or on the Sendmail side of things?I've used PEAR extensions in PHP to achieve this before, but scripts downloaded from the Internet generally just use the basic mail() function, and it would be a real pain to modify them all.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've configured postfix on my linux server. For the most part, I got everything working (IMAP, apache, etc) but for some reason, I can't get postfix to work remotely. Postfix works locally to send mail. E.g. when I telnet locally to port 25. However, when I try to telnet from outside, the connection closes almost immediately. I've looked at various configuration options and tuning enhancements but found nothing helpful. Here is my config:
Code:
main.cf:
#See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
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I run my own mail server. There's only one part that isn't working and I can't seem to figure out why: sending mail from a client - in this case, Thunderbird.
I can send mail off-server just fine if I log in via telnet. I can receive email just fine with Thunderbird.
Here are my relevant configs:
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
Code:
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
message_size_limit = 102400000
mailbox_size_limit = 1024000000
command_directory = /usr/sbin
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