I tried to follow the steps in https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-14-04
but when I am in my DigOcean droplet and I try to pip install postfix I get ERROR: Conld not find a version that satisfies the requirement postfix (from versions: none).
I also tried to follow the steps in https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-setup-mail-server-with-virtual-domains-using-postfix-dovecot-and-opendkim/ and I entered command ufw allow 587 with response: Rules updated Rules updated (v6), but when I enter ufw app list all I get is
Available applications:
OpenSSH
I have already installed mailutils
the code I’m trying to run is this (which works fine from my local laptop, just not from code running on my DO droplet). What I’m trying to achieve is sending updates to myself in my email to keep abreast of what’s happening in my droplet program.
import smtplib
import mimetypes
from email.message import EmailMessage
def send_mail(body_msg, attmnt_file_loc=None):
mail_obj = EmailMessage()
mail_obj['Subject'] = 'This email contains an attachment'
mail_obj['From'] = "mygmail@gmail.com"
mail_obj['To'] = 'myemail@msn.com'
mail_obj.set_content(body_msg)
if attmnt_file_loc!=None:
with open(attmnt_file_loc, 'rb') as fp:
file_data = fp.read()
maintype, _, subtype = (mimetypes.guess_type(attmnt_file_loc)[0] or 'application/octet-stream').partition("/")
mail_obj.add_attachment(file_data, maintype=maintype, subtype=subtype, filename=attmnt_file_loc)
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
s.starttls()
s.login("mygmail@gmail.com", "mygmailpassword")
s.send_message(mail_obj)
s.quit()
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What I could suggest here is using an SMTP plugin for your WordPress site.
That way you will be able to specify an SMTP server with authentication which your emails would be going through. You could for example use SendGrid’s SMTP service. This would drastically increase the delivery rate of your emails as well compared to using plain PHP mail.
I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and it works very well: Easy WP SMTP.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-wordpress-email-notifications-on-a-digitalocean-droplet
Hope that this helps!
Hi @bodoia,
First, I’ll recommend you to check this tutorial rather than the one you mentioned:
The one mentioned is heavily out of date.
Additionally, I don’t think you need to install postfix with pip. You just need to have it installed on your Droplet with:
Mailutils is a package, which bundles Postfix with a few supplementary programs that you’ll use to send emails.
Now, looking at your Python script, you have the following libraries:
I think all of them come by default installed with Python but if they don’t those are the ones you need to use ```pip install`` on.