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How I do for use postfix with relay from gmail?
- Posted June 19, 2014
I’m trying to do my postfix send email with relay in gmail. But I’m receiving a time out error. My firewall is open. My dns is answering. When I use the command “telnet smtp.gmail.com 587” I don’t have answer.
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Generally to setup postfix to relay to Gmail, the first thing you need to do is edit your <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> file to include: <pre> relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587 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/Equifax_Secure_CA.pem smtp_use_tls = yes </pre> Then you need to set your gmail password and address in <code>/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd</code> like so: <pre> [smtp.gmail.com]:587 user@gmail.com:PASSWORD </pre> Now make sure it’s permissions are correct and update it with: <pre> sudo chmod 400 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd </pre> And finally, restart postfix with: <pre> sudo service postfix restart </pre>
In your specific case, since you can’t telnet to <code>smtp.gmail.com </code> it sounds like you might have your SMTP port blocked. This happens in some specific cases in order to fight against spam. Please open a support ticket, and the team should be able to help you get that fixed:
https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support