I'm able to send emails from my instance via sendgrind, but how can I receive emails (via Google compute engine)? I'm running an apache server with virtual hosts, and have multiple domains.
You can try install any email server software + pop software + a web mail software in compute engine.
Then configure it to receive email via available ports. You should make a virtual host settings for your web-mail as well.
This will automate user creation for your web-mail under your own domain.
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I'm using fail2ban on Google Compute Engine where I can't install sendmail or other email servers and I would to set sendgrid as email server.
In jail.local there is this config:
destemail = myemail#myhost.it
mta = mail
Where can I set the host, user, password to send emails via sendgrid.com?
I think that fail2ban uses the machine mail command to send email, thus it is using the machine mailing daemon. If you look at this snippet:
# Option: actionstart
# Notes.: command executed once at the start of Fail2Ban.
# Values: CMD
#
actionstart = printf %%b "Hi,\n
The jail <name> has been started successfully.\n
Regards,\n
Fail2Ban"|mail -s "[Fail2Ban] <name>: started on <fq-hostname>" <dest>
that is taken from here (fail2ban sources on github), you can see that a message of fail2ban is piped to the mail command (in Debian based distribution this is installed via the mailutils package). Since I think your problem is that you cannot use or configure this mail command (which means configuring the mail server), you may think to write a very simple mail binary (in the language you prefer), with a pretty similar interface that may use something like the Gmail App Script to send the email, or even Gunmail or Sendgrid to actually send an email from that machine (with a POST request through the REST Api? Do they allow you?), and add this custom binary to the $PATH of the user that runs fail2ban.
Edit: There is a page in the Google compute documentation related to Send Grid. Also according to this you cannot use sendmail: the ports are closed.
Google Compute Engine does not allow outbound connections on ports 25, 465, and 587. By default, these outbound SMTP ports are blocked because of the large amount of abuse these ports are susceptible to. In addition, having a trusted third-party provider such as SendGrid, Mailgun, or Mailjet relieves Compute Engine and you from maintaining IP reputation with your receivers.
I am developing custom features for osTicket and I need to setup a mail system that sends emails, locally, and can simulate several email inboxes.
My local development setup is vagrant with ubuntu precise 64. I already have the LAMP stack running.
osTicket needs to send emails (only internally) and needs to have mailboxes (osticket reads and processes incoming mail on selected mailboxes).
I installed postfix, but could not get it to work.
Thank You.
Recently, I installed osTicket for my company. It can allow you to setup SMTP, which can use your Gmail account to send email. It is simple to setup.
The only thing to keep in mind is you need to use "Allow less secure apps to access your account". See: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en for more information.
Configure ssl://smtp.gmail.com as your SMTP address and port 465 as your SMTP port. Even if you are not using Gmail, you still have to put "ssl://" before your SMTP host name.
I have a VM instance on Google Compute Engine, which is running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have my Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, FTP, and various other things running great, easily accessible from the world. I installed MDaemon Messaging Server (Alt-N's email server), which I had on my old physical box for years. I am able to use port 110 just fine, but I simply cannot get SMTP to work. Yes, I'm well aware of (Compute Engine's Blocked SMTP Ports). Knowing these blocked google ports, I would like to choose port 2525 as Mdaemon's SMTP port. I added firewall rules on the server to allow it, and I added the Compute Engine Network port exceptions as well, and of course changed the Mdaemon's server settings for 2525. I still cannot send email. Hell, I even tried port 2626 and nadda.
I understand I could sign up through google's recommended "sendgrid" that would force me to use mail.sendgrid.com, port 2525, and have a maximum of 25,000 per month limit (on free sendgrid account), but I personally think it's ridiculous needing to sign up and have limits on email when I paid $2,400 for Mdaemon email server. I should be able to use my own domain's mail.mydomain.com and authenticate through MY email server, not sendgrid's.
Is there something simple I'm missing to be able to use my own email server software on my google compute engine VM instance? Or is it just fact that this is the right I give up by choosing google's cloud server services?
SMTP server, in your case MDaemon, sends all outbound emails directly to the recipient's mail servers on their inbound SMTP port which is 25. This is the port you will need to configure on your MDaemon's SMTP outbound port setting. So changing it to 2525 or 2626 won't help because recipient's SMTP servers usually do not listen on those ports.
As you also mentioned all outgoing traffic to port 25 (SMTP) is blocked on Compute Engine. Therefore you'll need to configure a smart host for your MDaemon message routing which listens on a non-blocked port. This is something like using a third party service (e.g. SendGrid).
I am planning to send email to my friends (they are in gmail and hotmail) from my local PC which I use at my home (in dynamic IP). Is it ever possible to configure IIS or Apache in my local PC and connect to home broadband and can send email?
I do not want to take any help from any other hosting company (as generally we do by using .Net or Php by taking SMTP address) so if need I can try to configure some website name to my PC (if possible).
I do not need to get any reply from them they will send again to my gmail address.
Is it ever possible as my plan?
This question may be of some help to you: How to send email from local machine to gmail?
You should be able to run a .NET, PHP or other local web service on your home machine and use one of the libraries included in the link above to send e-mails without requiring a 3rd party web host. Out of curiosity, what are you trying to accomplish exactly? There may be a simpler solution within gmail's API.
What you want is to build a SMTP Server!
Things you will need
STATIC IP.
Reverse DNS from your ip to you hostname (type nslookup yourip on cmd.exe the result must be your hostname)
DNS MX entry on your DNS ZONE like 0 your.host.name.com
A program/code that will implement the RFC2821 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
I have build a SMTP server that ONLY receive emails... maybe you can start from there....
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24834765/how-receive-emails-in-net-listening-connection-from-gmail-yahooo-not-a-pop
I do web development from my ubuntu server, ubuntu is running in virtualbox in my windows 7. What do I need to configure inside of ubuntu in order to send email to any public domain, gmail.com for example? I need this set up for testing email templates etc... Thanks, Jaro.
For testing email on the ubuntu machine, the best way is to create a local account and use email like account#localhost.
It is not a good test otherwise if you want to send mail directly from your system, as many ISPs are not allowing SMTP traffic over broadband DSL, e.g. my provider THREE in UK doesnt allow it, as well many big email companies will reject emails coming from broadband subnets.
Another way would be deploying the mail server, which is complex, also you can test your app at any free hosting provider too.
Basically testing email is nothing close to being simple and to test it properly, you need a production system with mail fully setup and working, whitelisted, not on DSL and so on.