I have a Centos server with exim installed. I am trying to send en email from the command line like this:
exim -v account#gmail.com
From: email#mydomain.com
To: account#gmail.com
Subject: test email
this is a test
^D
I have also tried:
echo 'test message' | mail -s Test1 account#gmail.com
as well as sending from a PHP script.
The result is the email times out. The logs indicate exim is timing out:
H=alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [173.194.219.26] Connection timed out
I believe iptables are correct. I have scanned the server from an external IP and ports 25, 265 and 587 are open. (Not sure 587 needs to be since this will be a send-only situation most likely.)
I have also telnet'd to port 25 successfully. (Most of the successful resolutions I have found involved port 25 being blocked. I don't think that is the case here. I have also called my provider and checked. They claim port 25 connections are not blocked.)
I would appreciate some ideas.
Thank you.
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I am installing sendmail/dovecot on my mail sever.
I edited file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
and add the below lines to make sure the domain name is used in sending mail
#add for domain email by deo malamo
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `desaonline.co.tz')dnl
FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')dnl
#end add domail based email by deo malamo
i installed and Used tls/ssl from Let's Encrypt
#add for Let's Encrypt ssl by deo malamo
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.desaonline.co.tz/')dnl
define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/chain.pem')dnl
define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/etc/ssl/certs/')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/privkey.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/privkey.pem')dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
#DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
#DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
#end add Let's Encrypt ssl by dmalamo
MY PROBLEM is the ports 25,465 and 587 are coming up and then shutdown because of port already in use ,Can any one assist me to fix this problem?
When i save the config (/etc/mail/sendmail.mc) and restart sendmail ,port 465 seems to be used and shutdown the whole outgoing ports 25,465 and 587.
logs file have the below entries
daemon TLSMTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Feb 9 13:26:43 mail sm-mta[20646]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon TLSMTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon TLSMTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
daemon TLSMTA: problem creating SMTP socket
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon TLSMTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
MY PROBLEM is the ports 25,465 and 587 are coming up and then shutdown because of port already in use ,Can any one assist me to fix this problem?
Short list to check...
1st) have You compiled sendmail.mc into sendmail.cf ?
2nd) TLSMTA: cannot bind: Address already in use... means that one process already use this port (smtps: 465),
- check who is using port (e.g. "netstat -lntp|grep 465")
- and stop this, sometimes port can be in use by connection, maybe instead restart You should: stop, wait few sec./minutes and then start sendmail
- "netstat -lntp|grep sendmail" can be usefull to see sendmail's listening ports
- before start be sure that ports are not occupied (not in use)
- problem may also be in SELINUX (investigate how to allow program to use ports)
Regards
K.
On Fedora 21, I had a simple script for sending emails
mail -a /tmp/attachment.txt -s "..." someone#somewhere.com
On Fedora 23, this no longer works.
No configuration file found at /home/mike/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc
I created the file and assigned correct permissions to it.
hostname = localhost.localdomain:25
(That's what Fedora 21 would send emails from: mike#localhost.localdomain.)
Well, now I'm getting
SMTP server problem Connection refused
Question: how do I get the mail command to work on Fedora 23?
Okay, seems like Fedora 21 must have had an email server running by default, but Fedora 23 does not.
In my
~/.esmtprc
I had to add
hostname = [SMTP SERVER THAT WORKS]:25
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
And that worked. Thanks everyone anyway!
I want to use telnet to send an e-mail with SMTP. It seemed that I had connect to the mail service successfully. And the message had been put in the queue too. But why did the SMTP service failed to send the message to the received address?
When I searched the solution by the internet, someone had said that firewall should paid it. But I have no idea about the relationship between the firewall or antivirus software and telnet.
This is my command:
220 smtp-5-124.smtpsmail.fmail.xd.sinanode.com ESMTP
helo a
250 smtp-5-124.smtpsmail.fmail.xd.sinanode.com
auth login
334 VXNlcd5hbWU6
a25vd215aGV2341241fasYS5jbg==
334 UGFzczdvcmQ6
UmF5V2adfa23adsfZzgyNA==
235 OK Authenticated
mail from: <knowmyheart#sina.cn>
502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
mail from:<knowmyheart#sina.cn>
553 Envolope sender mismatch with login user..
mail from:<knowmyheart#sina.cn>
250 ok
rcpt to:<517447201#qq.com>
250 ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
subject: test
to:<517447201#qq.com>
from:<knowmyheart#sina.cn>
Testttttttttttttt!
.
250 ok queue id 6744281442287
451 Timeout.
By the way, I tried it both on Windows 10 and Ubuntu-15.10. And both of them failed with the same question.
Finally, I found where I was wrong.
In my previous case,I failed to send a e-mail with the above code.I had succeeded in connecting with the SMTP server, and everything worked except the "Timeout" response. Actually, the "Timeout" didn't mean I failed to send a e-mail but lose the TCP connection. Hours Later, I login my e-mail, which was used for sending, finding that I receive a mail. The mail told me the e-mail I sent hours before with telnet was given back, failing to post. So it meant that the reason was hardly because of my telnet client, but in server or something else.
Finally, I found that it was because of my mail format. In my previous code, after I sending keyword -- "data", I immediately send the content.
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
subject: test
to:<517447201#qq.com>
from:<knowmyheart#sina.cn>
Testttttttttttttt!
.
250 ok queue id 6744281442287
When I changed it to this, it worked.
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
subject: test
to:<517447201#qq.com>
from:<knowmyheart#sina.cn>
Testttttttttttttt!
.
250 ok queue id 6744281442287
Notice that the difference between the codes is the empty line before the content in this mail. "subject", "to" and "from" are the headers. Between the header and the content, there must be an empty line.
Similarly, the headers in mail can be ignored. The code is like this:
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Testttttttttttttt!
.
250 ok queue id 6744281442287
451 Timeout.
Even if there is a "Timeout", it affect nothing but break the tcp connection between localhost and smtp server.
I recently installed Postfix, Dovecot to setup a mail server on my own VPS ( using this tutorial: Email with Postfix, Dovecot, Mysql)
Imaps server uses port 993 for Authentication, and Postfix uses port 25 to send mails.
In this tutorial, users stored in a Database ( so imaps use mysql to authenticate users).
i'm sure every thing works fine with imaps and postfix , because few days ago i installed Kmail client (on my linux) and receive mails from my server. sending mails also works fine, i sent a mail to Gmail and google received it without a problem (in my "Gmail inbox" not spam folder)
So to get to my Emails from a web mail client, i installed Roundcube on /var/www/mail directory.
I configured Roundcube many times. but each time it gives me this Error:
IMAP Error: Login failed for [me#mydomain] from X.x.X.x . Empty
startup greeting (localhost:993) in
/var/www/mm/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php on line 184 (POST
/mm/?_task=login?_task=login&_action=login)
When i do log in from roundcube, imap server says ( in /var/log/mail.log ):
May 20 07:05:16 my-server dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
attempts): rip=::1, lip=::1, TLS handshaking: Disconnected
Here is my roundcube config file :
$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcubeuser:myPassword#localhost/roundcubemail';
// ----------------------------------
// IMAP
// ----------------------------------
$config['debug_level'] = 13;
$config['default_host'] = 'ssl://127.0.0.1';
$config['default_port'] = 993;
// ----------------------------------
// SMTP
// ----------------------------------
$config['smtp_server'] = 'ssl://localhost';
What's the problem? i really have no idea what is happening !
Thank you.
I'm using postfix + dovecot + roundcube a few months now and it's working for me. In my configuration, postfix rejects plaintext sessions, so roundcube has to connect with ssl - and it's working.
This is from my main.inc.php. I don't remember editing anything here, it's just the initial config created during the installation.
Now that I'm looking at it, default_port doesn't make any sense, I think it's just ignored.
// To use SSL/TLS connection, enter hostname with prefix ssl:// or tls://
// Supported replacement variables:
// %n - http hostname ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])
// %d - domain (http hostname without the first part)
// %s - domain name after the '#' from e-mail address provided at login screen
// For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %d = domain.tld
// TCP port used for IMAP connections
$rcmail_config['default_port'] = 143;
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = array("ssl://localhost:993");
// TCP port used for IMAP connections
$rcmail_config['default_port'] = 143;
In case the other answer does not work, this is what worked for me. My config.inc.php now contains:
$config['default_host'] = 'ssl://localhost';
$config['default_port'] = 993;
NOTE: using tls://localhost did not work for me. I had to specify ssl:// as the URI scheme.
Via PhpMyAdmin, I also ran this SQL command (all my user accounts are on the same machine that runs RoundCube):
UPDATE `rc_users` SET `mail_host`='ssl://localhost'
I got the port number 993 from running sudo netstat -tulnp in order to determine the port on which Dovecot was listening.
I have installed Bugzilla-4.4 in my new Ubuntu Machine. When I submit a new bug, I got the email sent notification. But the sent email is not received by the recipients . I am using Sendmail mail configuration in Bugzilla. I have also tested "Test" mail configuration in which the mail is logged in bugzilla-4.4/data/mailer.testfile successfully. When I check my mail.log file I found the following:
(1001/1001), delay=3+15:58:59, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=47643784, relay=mailrelay.netcon.in., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mailrelay.netcon.in.
I have no idea what to do.Is anything I missed out while Sendmail configuration? Any help!!
Try nc from command line:
nc mailrelay.netcon.in 25
which should result in something like:
220 mailrelay.netcon.in ESMTP Postfix
If not check for internet connection and/or router firewall rules.