[PVE-User] Email setup in Proxmox VE

[Martin Maurer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Erik van Ast
> Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2010 12:31
> To: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Subject: [PVE-User] Email setup in Proxmox VE
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, Martin thank you for your answers (pve-user Digest, Vol 26, Issue
> 11) yesterday, they were very helpful..
> 
> My colleague has installed Proxmox 1.5 and delivered the server to me a
> couple of weeks ago.

Hi
Postfix is configured during setup, automatically. But if you change the hostname later, postfix config is not updated.

So you need to adapt this manually to your current hostname settings:

=> nano /etc/postfix/main.cf

Br, martin

 Everything is working fine now except for one thing :
> email messages are not being send/delivered.
> I have a backup job running every night and after the backup has run, an
> email is sent to me, but that message never arrives. When I look in the logs I
> see the following :
> 
> May 20 11:55:10 smtp 21389 connect to mail.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25:
> Connection timed out May 20 11:55:10 smtp 21390 connect to
> mail.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out May 20
> 11:55:36 proxwww 21416 Starting new child 21416 May 20 11:55:40 smtp
> 21389 connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out May
> 20 11:55:40 smtp 21390 connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25:
> Connection timed out May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21389 6F4EC3B87EE:
> to=<Erik.van.Ast at xxxxxx.nl>, relay=none, delay=699, delays=639/0.03/60/0,
> dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25:
> Connection timed out) May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21390 219743B87E5:
> to=<Erik.van.Ast at xxxxxx.nl>, relay=none, delay=166595,
> delays=166535/0.03/60/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to
> mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out)
> 
> How can I correctly configure the email settings on this server?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Erik van Ast
> 
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