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How to set up email to work properly in VestaCP?

Posted on February 11, 2015

I have VestaCP installed on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and have created multiple email adresses in VestaCP. I was trying to use roundcube mail client for the emails, but I face a problem when sending emails out.

Most of the servers would reject the emails and provide different error messages. Following is a mesagge from gmail:

I have not yet sent a single email succesfully, so previous spam is not a problem.

P.S. Receiving emails works as a charm.



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We are facing same issue @ocsnetworks

We have followed all the steps 1 & 2 of your email and they are reflected https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3Aportexcel.com&run=toolpage#

Connecting to 139.59.39.81

220 mail.portexcel.com ESMTP Exim 4.89 Sun, 02 Jul 2017 14:39:52 +0530 [6161 ms] EHLO PWS3.mxtoolbox.com 250-mail.portexcel.com Hello pws3.mxtoolbox.com [64.20.227.134] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-8BITMIME 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-CHUNKING 250-STARTTLS 250 HELP [851 ms] MAIL FROM:supertool@mxtoolbox.com 250 OK [851 ms] RCPT TO:test@example.com 550 relay not permitted [1790 ms]

PWS3v2 10770ms

Issue is still there

  1. We cannot send email to any domain like google, hotmail, yahoo etc
  2. We can receive email perfectly fine

I Need Help. I Have Disabled My MX Record In CloudFlare. But my Email Verification Process Not Working. When I Register New Username With Email Confirmation Link Not Come My InBox… my Site

Seriously it is the biggest problem with the control panel tried everything and have checked that the server’s ip is not blacklisted installed ubuntu without firewall etc. etc. i was however able to send trough gmail smtp from wordpress but the webmail installed together with vestacp was still not working. And i was not able to make it work tried several setups

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