I created a web app to do some basic content management for just myself. I want to mail some docs to the server instead of downloading then uploading them. Ive been looking at postfix but everything assumes you have a domain. Is it possible to receive email at a server with a fixed ip and no domain?
if you want anybody and any app to be able to send mail you need MX records in DNS. And MX records point at dns server names, not IP addresses.
https://serverfault.com/questions/663112/why-cant-mx-records-point-to-an-ip-address
If its just you then you can telnet to the SMTP port to send mail
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I am new to DO and I have tried to look for solution online but I didn't find any answer. I am using Ubuntu OS 20.04(LTS)X64 version.
My question is that I have 2 droplets, MailServer droplet where I have installed docker composer and mailcow to run mail mails, and another droplet named WebServer hosting my domains. I have also set up all required DS records under my domain added on WebServer droplet and pointed A record mail.mydomail.com to the IP of mail server droplet. However, whenever I try sending emails they all bounce back unless the ones sending between mydomain users(user1#mydomain.com & user2#mydomain.com). It just says that "The IP you're using to send mail is not authorized.....".
Any support to help me solve this issue will be highly appreciated. An I am wondering if that approach is possible or if there is any documentation on how someone can set up dns records on one server and configure mailserver on another server using digitalocean.
Here is how I set my DNS on mydomain.com to point to MailServer IP
I bought a domain.
I pointed his name servers to:
ns1.digitalocean.com
ns2.digitalocean.com
I have added a CNAME record point to #
I want to send and receive emails using my Mac mail program.
I know that I should probably build a full mail server which is an awful thing to do.
Therefore, I have another server (not digitalocean) running on cPanel. In this cPanel I have a very powerful cPanel's mail server.
How can I point my digitalocean CNAME to the remote server where the cPanel is?
I hope it's clear enough.
In order to make your domain points to the digital ocean server, you will have to create A record that points to the IP of that server, same goes to any subdomain.
Regarding your mail server, you need to make mail.mydomain.com points to the IP of your cPanel server using A record not CName and also modifying other records like SPF/DKIM records.
For your local mail client you can get the configuration by logging into the cPanel user account and view the mail settings
I currently have a domain name which is set to point to Amazon Cloudfront's nameservers. I also have a dedicated server which uses WHM/cPanel that I want to use for all mail.
On Amazon:
The A record for the domain is set to point to the server IP
The MX record is set up as well
On Server:
I have an A record for "mail" that points to the server IP
However, when I log into cPanel webmail, I can send mail but cannot receive it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some type of routing issue I am assuming? When I send an email via Gmail to myemail#mydomain.com, it does not bounce back.
I fixed it by changing the MX record from mydomain.com. to mail.mydomain.com. and then having the A record for mail point to the server IP.
We send out mail via Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on a Windows Server set up as server.organization.local.
When error messages are generated it shows:
Generating server: server.organization.local
I am confused as to what our SPF records should look like based on this. Should it simply contain the external IP address that this server uses to send out mail, or both this .local address and external IP address?
Currently it is set as:
# 10800 IN SPF "v=spf1 mx a:server.organization.local ip4:10.10.10.10 -all"
The mx is included to be safe but I'm not sure if it needs to be? The MX records on the domain name is set to a third-party filtering service, no mail is sent via it.
You need to specify the public IPs if you want to send emails to the internet.
If you are sending emails to another mail server on the LAN then you might have to add the private IPs as well.
I suggest to use a testing utility to check your SPF records.
i have a big problem with the setup for an Domain.
The Webservices are established on our Server but the Mail functions are on a Server of an other Company when we now want send an Email over our Server he tried to send it localy insted of sending it to an other server so he give back an no account here error.
Thanks for helping me out and friendly greetings.
Edit: OS Debian 6
Imap: Courier
Send: Postfix
CP: Plesk
Further to this, we are using Plesk 11.5.3 on a setup where a single mail service is activated for all domains.
So each domain cannot have the mail service turned on or off individually.
We had the same problem as Franco, and we fixed this by running the following command for each domain that had external email:
# /usr/local/psa/bin/mail --off domain.com
Works perfectly, and removes any previously created local email addresses from Postfix.
"The problem is because the server will attempt to deliver emails for the domain name locally by default. To resolve that problem you would need to set it to use the domain name's MX record."
The simple answer is to disable mail services for the subscription.
Untick the box for "Activate mail service on domain".