Issue 0
Setup a Mail Server
Details
Postfix is a mail server, I think
We need SMTP capability.
Have a look at:
White paper about Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) and SMTP mail server:
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Discussion
I tried playing with the postfix config file in
/etc/postfix/main.cf but it won't work. The Postifix is happy with the message I'm sending but the message get lost and never reach its destination. I still don't know how to read mails from the user mail directory.
I need to look at the
relayhost variable in
main.cf. Also have a look at the "relay control" paragraph in the white paper mentioned above.
Useful links:
The following link explains how to setup your relayhost with authentication:
I should probably do that using my ISP SMTP settings.
Have a look at the results for the following google search:
Solution
Ok this is now working eventually.
Setting up
relayhost using my ISP smtp worked well in the end. It would not worked though using some other webmail smtp.
Here are two most valuable source of information regarding Message Transfer Agent and postfix:
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