I have setup postfix on CentOS and trying to configure phpmailer with smtp authentication.
Phpmailer will only work if i put 0.0.0.0/0 under mynetworks in postfix main.conf
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104, [::1]/128, 0.0.0.0/0
But in this thread (How do I configure PostFix to allow other machines to send out email through it? ) someone said don't put 0.0.0.0/0 in mynetworks since it can cause spam problems, etc.
Can someone please advice what should I do, to keep my server out of spam problems and also to to work phpmailer?
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = example.com
mydomain = example.com
myorigin = /etc/mailname
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
mydestination = localhost.localdomain localhost $mydomain
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104, [::1]/128, 0.0.0.0/0
smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, permit
relayhost =
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
home_mailbox = Maildir/
smtpd_use_tls = yes
#smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/tls/private/my.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/my.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/pki/tls/certs/my.ca-bundle
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
#smtpd_tls_protocols = !SSLv2, !SSLv3
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
#SASL SMTP Authentication
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = no
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES
if i remove 0.0.0.0/0 and keep only mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104, [::1]/128
phpmailer says it cant sent mail..
phpmailer debug...
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 myhost.com ESMTP Postfix
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO www.myhost.com
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-myhost.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: AUTH LOGIN
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: XXXX
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: XXXX
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: MAIL FROM: [email protected]
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 2.1.0 Ok
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: RCPT TO: [email protected]
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 554 5.7.1 :Relay access denied
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SMTP ERROR: RCPT TO command failed: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied
2014-11-23 04:57:10 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SERVER -> CLIENT: 221 2.0.0 Bye
2014-11-23 04:57:10 SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: [email protected] Mailer Error: SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: [email protected]
and postfix error log
myhost postfix/smtpd[8272]: connect from myhost.com[168.x.x.x]
myhost postfix/smtpd[8272]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from myhost.com[168.x.x.x]:
554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied; from=<[email protected]>
to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<www.myhost.com>Nov 22 23:57:10 myhost
postfix/smtpd[8272]: disconnect from myhost.com[168.x.x.x]
Php mailer settings (I have changed only index of php mailer. other files keep as it is/untouched)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>PHPMailer - SMTP email test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
$host = "myhost.com";
$username = "ara";
$password = "ara";
$Port = 25;
$mail->FromName = "Mail from gottsf3 ";
$mail->From = "[email protected]";
$mail->Host = $host;
$mail->Port = $Port;
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; //optional
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $username;
$mail->Password = $password;
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
$mail->Subject = 'gottsf3PHPMailer - SMTP email test';
$mail->Body = 'This is a plain-text message body';
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
You should be configuring phpmailer to connect to
localhost
, not to the hostname of the machine (which will then use its external IP address to connect).Localhost is allowed to relay mail through postfix by
mynetworks
, but when you connect with the hostname it's via the public IP address, which is not allowed to relay.I could fix by adding the following in postfix
/etc/postfix/master.cf
..Relay access denied is not only for PHPmailer..its for any client Outlook, Thunderbird etc... Putting localhost is a workaround not a complete fix.. for example when PHPmailer/web server is a different server, which is isolated from postfix email server you can't put localhost..
More about smtpd_recipient_restrictions, please chick this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18318789/linux-postfix-dovecot-554-relay-access-denied