Setting up relay host for zimbra - smtp

I would like to configure Smtp for my mail server to send out mail to external server. I followed this link and confused of what exactly the relay mail should be, zmprov ms server.domain.com zimbraMtaRelayHost mailrelay.example.com I did not know what should be use to replay for mailrelay.example.com. If my mail domain is mail.domain.com so can I set up for relay host as wiki.domain.com?

The correct use would be:
zmprov ms <your zimbra server> zimbraMtaRelayHost <the relay-host you're sending mail through>
So, if you have installed Zimbra on mail.domain.com and would like to send all mails through wiki.domain.com, you would use
zmprov ms mail.domain.com zimbraMtaRelayHost wiki.domain.com

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smtp relay solution needed

I am hosting my email server (postfix, dovecot) at home. I cannot send emails as my ISP does not allow connection via port 25. I have a linux server in the cloud with a public IP and I would like to use it as an SMTP relay (with authentication) for my email server. Is there any open source SMTP relay?
Thank you.
Regards
Zak
Hint for Debian (and most Linux distribution):
Keep sendmail (from sendmail.org) if you have significant sendmail experience.
Otherwise use Postfix.
https://wiki.debian.org/MTA

Using domain mail server for sendmail

The piece of php script is:
$sendmail=1;
$sendmail_path='/path/to/sendmail';
$smtp_server='localhost';
My webhost want me to use my domain smtp mail server mail.xxxxx.net instead of "localhost" otherwise sendmail is blocked.
I don't know how to reset the script.
Please help me
Thanks
One of the settings that you tried
<?php
$smtp_server='mail.telugugreetings.net';
is actually a correct setting, as indicated by its error message:
Additional errors: 550 Access denied - Invalid HELO name (See RFC2821 4.1.1.1)
This is an SMTP error, so you have successfully connected to your SMTP server. This error indicates a completely different problem:
4.1.1.1 Extended HELLO (EHLO) or HELLO (HELO)
These commands are used to identify the SMTP client to the SMTP server. The argument field contains the fully-qualified domain name of the SMTP client if one is available. In situations in which the SMTP client system does not have a meaningful domain name (e.g., when its address is dynamically allocated and no reverse mapping record is available), the client SHOULD send an address literal (see section 4.1.3), optionally followed by information that will help to identify the client system. y The SMTP server identifies itself to the SMTP client in the connection greeting reply and in the response to this command.
Make sure that you are setting the "From" field properly. It should probably be something ending in #telugugreetings.net. Without knowing more about your mail server and your PHP code, including any libraries you may be using to send mail, I can't be more specific.
You might need to contact your hosting provider again to ask about this new error message.
The PHP manual's mail() Runtime configuration says:
Used under Windows only: host name or IP address of the SMTP server PHP should use for mail sent with the mail() function.
Click Here for PHP Mail Runtime configuration
Is this on you local Windows machine?
Are you hosting on a Windows machine?
If not Windows the SMTP directive is ignored.
If you have a Windows machine:
The PHP setting for SMPT is a "PHP_INI_ALL, Entry can be set anywhere"
Which mean this directive can be set Runtime, in:
php.ini, .htaccess, httpd.conf or .user.ini
Get you SMPT Configurations Setting:
echo ini_get('SMTP');
To Set you SMTP
ini_set ('SMTP', $SMPTServer)
Where $SMPTServer is the host name or IP address of the SMTP server PHP should use for mail sent.

Exchange SQL Server 2008 Database Mail issue

In my web application I have created a mail sender class and set the configurations of web.config file like this:
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="PickupDirectoryFromIis">
<network host="smtp.domain.com"
port="587"
userName="mail#domain.com"
password="password"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
This is sending email. But SQL Server database mail can not send mail with the same account info.
Only one difference is PickupDirectoryFromIis .
Is there any setting on exchange server?
In the SQL Server Logs the errors are following.
Message
The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail
server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 2 (2012-09-30T16:55:04).
Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (The SMTP server
requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The
server response was: 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated).
Looks like this is a Authentication issue or port no issue.
Authentication Issue:
—————————-
Please make sure you have put the information as explained below:
Server name: smtp.gmail.com ( this is really important)
port no: 587 ( on many website this is given as 465 which is wrong, use 587 )
Check : This server requires a secure connection
Check Basic Authentication
username: youremailid#gmail.com ( should have gmail.com)
password: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
confirm password: confirm your password
Port No Issue:
——————–
Make sure port 587 is opened in your machine if you are following above example. If you are using any other port number (usually its port 25) to set up database mail in your office, make sure you speak with your security team and ask them to unblock port 25. Once they unblock port 25, your databasemail will work.
Network Connectivity:
—————————–
Also check network connectivity from your machine, if you can connect to internet from your machine on which you are testing your database mail. To test, do the following
Start- Run- type cmd – Hit Enter
Type ping gmail.com -t and then hit enter.
If output displays as Request timed out, it actually means there is network connectivity problem. Otherwise, your network connectivity is good.

Setting up SMTP mail server. Done with installing SMTP. Now what?

I want to host my own mailserver using my own domain. So far I can see that SMTP needs to be installed and the DNS record has to be modified to point to my mailserver. So far so good. But what about mailaccounts? How do I create mail#mydomain.com with username and password so I can start receiving emails in outlook?
What more does it take to be able to receive mails in outlook now that im done with installing SMTP on my server?
Installing just the smtp service isn't going to get you what you need. In order for users to get their mail you'd need a pop server, or an IMAP server or and exchange server.
What you need is a seperate mail hosting package. Something like Imail from Ipswitch. Or exchange from Microsoft.
SMTP is simply a mail transfer mechanism, it will receive emails for remote SMTP servers and then try an deliver them. It does not handle mailboxes or email accounts, for this you will need a POP3, IMAP or Exchange server.

Need help setup windows server 2008 SMTP server

I am trying to setup windows server 2008 smtp server to relay emails to gmail smtp. Everything appears to be setup but it is not sending emails. Could you please help me figure out whats wrong.
Below is the setup:
Windows server 2008 with SMTP server
feature installed. Need SMTP server
to forward all messages to gmail smtp
server to send.
I have google apps setup for my
domain, also I can send emails
throught my test app using
gmail smtp.
SMTP Server Configuration: By default has default smtp server virtual directory.
In Properties of that virtual smtp server changed following.
Fully qualified domain name = mydomain.com
smart host = smtp.gmail.com
TCP Port = 587
Out Bound Security = Basic Authentication(my username password for google apps email account)
In domains list under virtual smtp server. I have one default domain that's server dns. I added another one for my domain name.
With above setup i am trying to redirect all email to gmail smtp.
I tested connection to smtp.gmail.com from server on port 587 through telnet and it works.
I am trying to use above server from my web application also by just dropping emails in pickup directory. It get's picked up and also accepts request form web application but never sends an email.
I can see that it adds those emails in queue folder but it stays there forever.
When i try to send emails from web app to above server it rejects if To address is other than my domain.(Am i missing something in list of domains)
Thanks for all answers, finally found solution there is a property for maximum sessions which value was 0 by default. Changed it to 100 and it send all pending emails immediately.
Possible reasons are that some SMTP servers block the outgoing messages if there domain name mismatch, possible to prevent spam mails from being sent. So for example, I will not be able to send my email with an address abc#mydomain.com from my domain yourdomain.com.
Hope that helps.
Ensure your sending domain is the same as the google apps domain
Ensure your sending address is a real address and not just an alias
IIRC you need to use STARTTLS (SSL) not basic authentication
This souds like a DNS issue. Check your /badmail directory. It will have .bad and .bdp files in there. You can open these in notepad (there will be some binary in there).
However, it may point to the possible problem.
You may also want to try and enable logging on the SMTP service. There may be something in there.