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.
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I am trying to send an email using the smtp.office365.com server. It always return the same error:
5.7.57 Client not authenticated to send mail.
As far as I know, the problem is related with the fact that I'm working with ADFS. So I have previously federated my domain to work with Office 365. When I try to log in to Office, I'm redirected to the login page of my platform, which is fine.
Is there a way to send email using the Office smtp server when working with ADFS?
Not to my knowledge, you need to change the primary username to use your tenant domain rather than your federated domain. Then you'll be able to log in without ADFS.
We configured a single account for SMTP with just an Exchange Plan 1 license, and then set up internal SMTP relays using that account to transmit to O365. We then limit connections on that account to only known locations. Then we add SendAs permissions for that account to all the DLs/mailboxes that we need to send email from.
I have an application using JavaMail that sends mail via a SMTP server.
For testing purpose, I do not want to saturate the SMTP server, so I want to know if I can save all the mails in a database on SMTP server to check if the mail has benn sent, but not send them really?
If it's possible, what is the best way to do that?
Thanks.
It probably depends on your SMTP server.
There are several SMTP servers intended for testing only; search for "smtp testing server".
I am trying to send mail with my yandex mail account on database mail. Actually it was working for a long time. Last 1 month I cannot send mail with my yandex account. Always it gives that error message,
Error,16492,The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 10 (2014-11-08T17:20:25). Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (time out ).
The mail account works with Microsoft Outlook, but it does not work with database mail. I am also using SSL secure connection. Which is in the configuration of database mail account?
Thank you.
It's a late response but it is a true solution.
With Yandex kindly use SSL port number 587 instead of 465.
Screenshot Yandex IMAP settings
Also add IMAP settings, SMTP does not work without it
I know we can send email from php using smtp servers on different hosts or if there is local smtp server installed. What I want to know is can php send email without any local or remote smtp servers? I have heard about sendmail program but can it function without any mail server installed in the server?
At some point you have to talk to a SMTP server. Sending via a SMTP server on the local host is the cleanest option and the most likely to succeed at getting through spam filters.
What a mail server does is quite complex. Let's take your average e-mail as it arrives from your e-mail client to your e-mail server with an outbound host as the destination:
The server checks your user account and makes sure it is valid.
The e-mail goes into a queue either separately for each recipient or as one message (depends on the server).
The server finds the e-mail in the queue and processes each recipient address. This requires a DNS lookup for a MX record for each target domain.
The e-mail server connects to the address specified by the MX record and delivers the e-mail to it as one does over SMTP.
On success, the e-mail is removed from the queue. On failure, the e-mail may remain in the queue and the server will try again later (exponential backoff - see greylisting) or be put in the mail queue to be returned to you when you check your e-mail via POP3 later.
The next e-mail server in the queue then repeats the above until the final server receives the e-mail and sits in the recipient's mailbox.
Doing that within PHP is possible, but I don't recommend it. MX record lookup can be tricky because people do all sorts of non-compliant things that mail servers tolerate. Plus, your script might time out while attempting to connect directly to the target SMTP server. Some servers are also configured to "greylist" e-mail, which means the e-mail will initially be rejected but would be accepted later (e.g. 30 minutes is not unusual). The average PHP script won't be able to handle that scenario.
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.