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How to make sending mail from phoenix application through local postfix install work
Hello everyone, I can’t make my phoenix application send emails using postfix installed on the same VPS.
The result of command
postconf -n
looks like this:
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
compatibility_level = 2
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
inet_protocols = all
mailbox_size_limit = 0
milter_default_action = accept
milter_protocol = 6
mydestination =
myhostname = mytestdomain.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
myorigin = /etc/mailname
non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters
readme_directory = no
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_milters = local:/opendkim/opendkim.sock
smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
When I give the command to send email in the console like this:
echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject" mymailaddress@gmail.com
I get the email in my mailbox, everything works as expected, I also see the postfix work by looking into it’s log:
sudo tail -f /var/log/mail.log
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/pickup[28788]: 6E8445DC28: uid=1000 from=<testuser@mytestdomain.com>
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/cleanup[30829]: 6E8445DC28: message-id=<20190528161431.6E8445DC28@mytestdomain.eu>
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/qmgr[6445]: 6E8445DC28: from=<testuser@mytestdomain.com>, size=399, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/smtp[30831]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2a00:1450:400c:c00::1a]:25: Network is unreachable
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/smtp[30831]: 6E8445DC28: to=<testuser@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[64.233.184.24]:25, delay=0.43, delays=0.02/0.01/0.17/0.24, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1559060071 n7si2302256wmc.53 - gsmtp)
May 28 16:14:31 mytestdomain postfix/qmgr[6445]: 6E8445DC28: removed
But emails from my phoenix application are not sent, there is nothing in the postfix log and nothing in my mailbox. My config looks like this:
# Configures the mailer
config :jp, JpWeb.Mailer,
adapter: Swoosh.Adapters.SMTP,
relay: "mytestdomain.com",
ssl: false,
tls: :always,
port: 1025,
retries: 2,
no_mx_lookup: false
I tried with ssl: true first but then I found the topic on this forum where it was recommended to set it to false, so I did it but it didn’t help. Also I tried to set port to 25 but with no result.
The email is sent like this:
JpWeb.SpecialistRequestEmail.specialist_request_email(id, url, email, phone, name) |> JpWeb.Mailer.deliver
and the function specialist_request_email looks like this:
defmodule JpWeb.SpecialistRequestEmail do
import Swoosh.Email
def specialist_request_email(specialist_id, url, email, phone, name) do
new()
|> to({"MyTestDomain administrator", "testuser@gmail.com"})
|> from({"Notifications system", "notifications@mytestdomain.com"})
|> subject("New specialist request")
|> html_body("<h1>Specialist request details</h1><div>Name: #{name}</div><div>Phone: #{phone}</div><div>E-mail: #{email}</div><div><a href=\"#{url}\">Specialist ##{specialist_id}#</a></div>")
|> text_body("Specialist request details\nName: #{name}, Phone: #{phone}, E-mail: #{email}, Specialist Id: #{specialist_id}, Link: #{url}")
end
end
In my mix.exs file I added dependencies:
{:swoosh, "~> 0.23"},
{:gen_smtp, "~> 0.13"},
And added them to extra_applications (should I?):
def application do
[
mod: {Jp.Application, []},
extra_applications: [:swoosh, :gen_smtp]
]
end
What do I miss?
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alexiss
You are always welcome!
regarding port 25 - looks good, but I recommend to ask this question on postfix forum ))
UPD You can leave this port without any restrictions if you disable any connection from outside to port 25 in ufw. Allow just tcp from-to 127.0.0.0/24
UPD 2 Of course, you also should allow outgoing connections to any address to port 25 if you want to send a real emails
NobbZ
The most important reason is, that the IP of your host from which you send your emails is not “trusted”, and it will take a lot of time to build up necessary reputation to not get flagged as SPAM everywhere. This is especially true if you send a lot of mails at once, eg. Newsletters.
outlog
you should definitely look into SPF, DKIM, and DMARC..
send a mail to mailtest@unlocktheinbox.com and you’ll get a report back (warning lot of upsell in that report but should get u going..)
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