[SOLVED] Mail Gateway Install help.

SWben

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I'm currently looking at using proxmox as a relay server to filter emails and then relay them onto my exchange server. We have a firewall which has port 25 forwarded to the proxmox mail gateway.

However when i look at the stats on the dashboard its not picking up any emails coming in. Internally its working as the promox system relayed a message onto my exchange server and i received it in my inbox.

We are currently using scrollout which im trying to move away from. When i port forward 25 to scrollouts ip it works fine.

Does PMG need a valid hostname that has an MX record? eg, pmg.mydomain.co.uk which points to our external ip?

I'm probably missing something really simple. Any help?
 
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hmm - on a hunch - make sure that PMG has a static IP-address configured, and that you have an appropriate /etc/hosts entry :
if PMG is configured on ip 192.168.0.1 and it's fqdn is 'pmg.mydomain.local' make sure you have a line in your '/etc/hosts' that reads:
Code:
192.168.0.1 pmg.mydomain.local pmg

depending on how you setup pmg it might be best to reboot it.

if this does not help - please post your:
* `journalctl -b` (the journal, since the last reboot)
* `cat /etc/hostname`
* `ip route`
* `cat /etc/hosts`
* `cat /etc/resolv.conf`

I hope this helps!
 
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hmm - on a hunch - make sure that PMG has a static IP-address configured, and that you have an appropriate /etc/hosts entry :
if PMG is configured on ip 192.168.0.1 and it's fqdn is 'pmg.mydomain.local' make sure you have a line in your '/etc/hosts' that reads:
Code:
192.168.0.1 pmg.mydomain.local pmg

depending on how you setup pmg it might be best to reboot it.

if this does not help - please post your:
* `journalctl -b` (the journal, since the last reboot)
* `cat /etc/hostname`
* `ip route`
* `cat /etc/hosts`
* `cat /etc/resolv.conf`

I hope this helps!


Woah, just needed a reboot, now i feel like a dummy! Thanks!!
 
Glad you found the solution! - no need to feel bad - this is not directly visible!

Please mark the thread as 'SOLVED' - this might help others in a similar situation.

Happy testing!
 

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