ISPConfig Debian Multiserver Setup: Web Server & Mail deamon

Hi guys,
when I try to execute some php code that try to send an email by the mail server smtp configuration I get a weird error message: unknown error.
Have I to install an MTA service in the webserver too?
Thanks

 

apt-get install postfix ?

 

The question is: Does the webserver, in the MultiServer setup, must have an MTA (sendmail/postfix) installed?
thanks

 

No, you don´t need a mta on a web-server. you can also use a remote-server.
personaly, i install postfix on a web-server to and setup a relay-server

 

I have noticed a weird behaviour of the system when I try to send an email using the mail server in my php script. I mean that I have wrote a simple script that uses the SMTP mail server to send the email but the script is located at the webserver hosting plan space. When I run the code I get a message: unknown error.
I have tried to replicate the error on a local pc and I have discovered that the error appear when there is not any MTA installed.
thanks

 

How can I set up the relay server to send emails trough the mail server?

 

On webserver:
Insert following line, with your server instead in /etc/postfix/main.cf

Code:

relayhost = mail.example.com

On mail server:
And you might want to add your webserver in /etc/postfix/main.cf in the line mynetworks

 

There is any /etc/postfix/main.cf in my webserver configuration.

 

In fact it is the first question of this thread: Have I to install an MTA service in the webserver too?

 

I would do it, because then your server will also be able to send alert mails if some errors occur.
If you etc. would like to setup monit and munin.

 

see my 2nd answer. use a remote mta or setup a local mta and relay the mails.

 

Hi florian030,
how have I to use a remote mta? Seems to me a good solution.
Thanks

 

in your php script.

 

@ressel yes of course. I have set the php script to connect using the smtp of the external server but the script creates the error wrote above

 

What function are you using to send mails with?

 

I am using the GoalioMailService zend module.

Code:

    <?php
    /**
     * GoalioMailService Configuration
     *
     * If you have a ./config/autoload/ directory set up for your project, you can
     * drop this config file in it and change the values as you wish.
     */
    $settings = array(
   
        /**
         * Transport Class
         *
         * Name of Zend Transport Class to use
         */
        'transport_class'   => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\Smtp',
        'options_class' => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\SmtpOptions',
        'options' => array(
                'host'             => 'mail.externalserver.com',
                'port'             => 25,
                'connectionClass'  => 'login',
                'connectionConfig' => array(
                //                     'ssl'      => 'tls',
                        'username' => '[email protected]',
                        'password' => 'mypassword',
                ),
        ),
   
        /**
         * End of GoalioMailService configuration
         */
    );
   
    /**
     * You do not need to edit below this line
     */
    return array(
        'goaliomailservice' => $settings,
    );

 

Try this:

Code:

$settings = array(
    'type' => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\Smtp',

    'options_class' => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\SmtpOptions',

    'options' => array(
        'host' => 'mail.externalserver.com',
        'connection_class' => 'login',
        'connection_config' => array(
            'ssl' => 'tls',
            'username' => '[email protected]',
            'password' => 'YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE'
        ),
        'port' => 587
    )
);

 

Nothing to do.
It doesn't work at the remote ISPConfig server.



In the local server with the MTA installed, it works as well.