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Need help with Postfix SMTP
Hey,
Just installed postfix on a small VPS, wich i want to use as an SMTP server to send email with from my website
I can send emails via the VPS itself to my email account, but when i want to do it via my website it just doesn't seem to be sending any email...
I'm getting this error: Relay access denied
Already googled, but can't find a solution that works for me
Can someone help me with this?
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Probably only open to localhost, you need to allow your other vps ip to send mail.
I have done that..
Checked if you need to provide authentication?
Fixed it.. had to put in the IP of the website to send emails :P
But now another problem.. it's going into Spam, already did rDNS though
Be careful that helo isn't localhost
It can send to gmail, but not to hotmail... wich is weird
paste your postfix configuration file please, there are a few ways to cock up the relays that are not obvious
Just had contact with FrontRangeHosting, great support
They told me to enable Sender Policy Framework
SPF is seriously nice to stop spammers from using your domain. In my catch-all box I used to get a lot of shitty vacation-auto-reply or failed emails because spammers were using [email protected] like addresses. Turned on SPF with hard fail, almost all of them are gone... Combined with DKIM, lets hope that 97% of all email becomes email instead of spam...
So I sort of gave you the answer in the first post
A few things are important :
rDns should be the same as what the smtp presents itself as.
Spf should be serup
Then you would be good to go.