Backup Notifications - Email SMTP / STARTTLS

alasdairc

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Hi all,

I have having a few issues with sending emails to a syslog email address I have created. I am getting an Undeliverable email bounceback due to auth being needed.


Recipient address rejected: SMTP AUTH is required for users under this sender domain


Is there any official/recommended way to configure STARTTLS authentication for Proxmox?


Thank you in advance
 
Google for postfix as a SMTP relay. What to do heavily depends on the email provider.


For my provider (netcup) it for example looks like this:

Code:
nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
sender_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
relayhost = [YOURNETCUPSERVER.netcup.net]:465
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_wrappermode = yes

nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
[YOURNETCUPSERVER.netcup.net]:465 YOURRELAY@YOURDOMAIN.TLD:PASSWORT

postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db
chmod 0600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db

nano /etc/postfix/sender_canonical
/.+@YOURFQDN/ YOURRELAY@OYURDOMAIN.TLD
/.+@YOURDOMAIN.TLD/ YOURRELAY@YOURDOMAIN.TLD

postmap /etc/postfix/sender_canonical
nano /etc/aliases
postmaster: root
webmaster: root
root: WHERE@ITSHOULD.GO

newaliases
service postfix restart

Here sasl is used for authentification. One big problem I had was that the mail provider rejected emails that weren't send from my own valid mail address. My SMTP account was "MyAdresss@email.tld" so the senders email address has to be "MyAdresss@email.tld" too or it will be blocked.
So I needed to tell Proxmox in the options which email address to use as sender address (Datacenter -> Options -> Email from address) so that it matches "MyAdresss@email.tld".
 
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Google for postfix as a SMTP relay. What to do heavily depends on the email provider.


For my provider (netcup) it for example looks like this:

Code:
nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
sender_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
relayhost = [YOURNETCUPSERVER.netcup.net]:465
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_wrappermode = yes

nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
[YOURNETCUPSERVER.netcup.net]:465 YOURRELAY@YOURDOMAIN.TLD:PASSWORT

postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db
chmod 0600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db

nano /etc/postfix/sender_canonical
/.+@YOURFQDN/ YOURRELAY@OYURDOMAIN.TLD
/.+@YOURDOMAIN.TLD/ OYURRELAY@YOURDOMAIN.TLD

postmap /etc/postfix/sender_canonical
nano /etc/aliases
postmaster: root
webmaster: root
root: WHERE@ITSHOULD.GO

newaliases
service postfix restart

Here sasl is used for authentification. One big problem I had was that the mail provider rejected emails that weren't send from my own valid mail address. My SMTP account was "MyAdresss@email.tld" so the senders email address has to be "MyAdresss@email.tld" too or it will be blocked.
So I needed to tell Proxmox in the options which email address to use as sender address (Datacenter -> Options -> Email from address) so that it matches "MyAdresss@email.tld".


I run my own mail server Postfix/Dovecot

Is it just a case of editing the Postfix configs on the Host itself then to get the mail notifications to work? I didn't think about this as an option. I will have a tinker and see what I can do

Is it just an SMTP Relay that I am looking to create on the Host?
 

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