I need to configure my debian etch server, which is hosted on my lan behind a firewall/router with virtual server port forwarding and a fixed IP to the web. All site request are automatically converted to SSL. I only need my php scripts to be able to send emails from various tasks carried out on the server websites. I have dovecot, postfix, exim4, saslauthd installed. 1. do i need all of them and if not which ones can I remove? 2. i dont want the postfix hijacked so I only want my sites to ba able to send from it. 3.how do i setup my main.cf to acheive this. my current main.cf is a bit messy so i need to clean it up here is the output of postconf -n Code: BuildFITs1:~# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 inet_interfaces = all mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = BuildFITs1.buildfit.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost myhostname = BuildFITs1.buildfit.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/24 myorigin = /etc/mailname receive_override_options = no_address_mappings recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = Buildfits1.buildfit.com smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/postfix.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/postfix.pem smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_use_tls = yes virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_domains = $virtual_mailbox_maps virtual_mailbox_maps = virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 4. iam looking at this HowTo should i just follow this? http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_relaying_through_another_mailserver
For sending you just need Postfix. Use inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 in main.cf. That way connections from outside are impossible. If you want to use relaying, then yes.
Thankyou for your response Falko, much appreciated, I am getting the following errors now this one when i try to send an email from a site Code: postfix/sendmail[18070]: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line or via the -t option and this one started this morning and is constantly repeating itself every minute this first Code: Mar 4 07:35:25 BuildFITs1 postfix/cleanup[22937]: DF416A7971: message-id=<20090303210525.DF416A7971@localhost> Mar 4 07:35:25 BuildFITs1 postfix/qmgr[17620]: DF416A7971: from=<[email protected]>, size=388, nrcpt=1 (queue active) and this is constantly repeated Code: Mar 4 07:35:25 BuildFITs1 postfix/qmgr[17620]: warning: connect to transport local: Connection refused my current postconf -n is Code: BuildFITs1:~# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = buildfit.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost myhostname = localhost mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = /etc/mailname recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = milton.worldispnetwork.com smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_use_tls = yes any ideas on how to fix this thankyou again?
this is one of my mail scripts that works on other servers i lease elsewhere Code: // Get Newsletter Variables $title = $_REQUEST['title']; $news = $_REQUEST['news']; $sent = date('l jS \of F Y'); // Start Email $subject = BIZ_NAME." Newsletter"; $core = nl2br($news); $sender = OWNER." <".EMAIL.">"; // Email Newsletter Content $message = "<html><head></head><body>\n"; $message .= "<table align='center' border='1' bordercolor='#330000' width='759' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0'>"; $message .= "<tr>"; $message .= "<td align='center'>"; $message .= "<table align='center' border='0' width='739' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>"; $message .= "<tr>"; $message .= "<td width='140' height='61'><img src='".DOMAIN.IMAGES.LOGO."' alt='".LOGO_ALT."'></td>"; $message .= "<td align='left' valign='bottom'><font color='#000066' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='+1'><b>".BIZ_NAME." News</b></font></td>"; $message .= "<td align='right' valign='top'><font color='#000066' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='-1'>" . date('l jS \of F Y') . "<br></font></td>"; $message .= "</tr>"; $message .= "<tr>"; $message .= "<td colspan='3' height='50' valign='middle' align='left'><font color='#000066' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='+1'><b>$title</b></font></td>"; $message .= "</tr>"; $message .= "<tr>"; $message .= "<td colspan='3' align='left' valign='top'><br><font color='#000000' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='-1'>$core</font><br><br></td>"; $message .= "</tr>"; $message .= "<tr>"; $message .= "<td colspan='3' align='left' valign='middle'><font color='#000066' face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><b>".OWNER."</b><br>".BIZ_NAME." Pty Ltd</td>"; $message .= "</tr>"; $message .= "</table>"; $message .= "</td>"; $message .= "</tr>"; $message .= "</table>"; $message .= "</body></html>\n"; // Email Headers $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $headers .= "From: $sender\r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $sender\r\n"; $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion(); // Get Subscriber email list $x = 1; $hold = 50; // quantity of emails sent before 3 sec delay $emails = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM subscribers"); while ($sendemail = mysql_fetch_array($emails)) { $email = $sendemail["email"]; // Send Email mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers); // Prevent timeout $x++; if($x == $hold) { // When $x is equal to $hold, a 3 sec delay will occur avoiding php to timeout sleep(3); $x = 0; } the sender is set here but still i get the following error Code: Mar 5 00:27:01 BuildFITs1 postfix/sendmail[31590]: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line or via the -t option
Does $email contain a valid email address? Other than that, I'm not sure what could cause this problem...
Thanks so much for your help Falko its appreciated, do you know what the -t option is by any chance or how it should be set?
-t : Read message for recipients. To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines will be scanned for recipient addresses. The Bcc: line will be deleted before transmission. (See man sendmail) You can set it as $additional_parameters in PHP's mail() function: http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
