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How to setup a outgoing mail smtp server like smtp.gmail.com?

Posted on January 25, 2015

Hi Good day!

I have LEMP installed on my Droplet and I want it to be my web and mail server at the same time, I have installed postfix, dovecot in it and it works fine.

My objective is to create an SMTP server (smtp.mydomain.com) and use it to gmail as outgoing mail. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Any steps or tutorial of how can I setup my own SMTP server?

Thanks in advance



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Well, you said that you’ve already created your own SMTP server. What would you like to know? How you could build a smtp server which will use GMAIL as relay server?

There are plenty of tutorials out there. The most important thing is to configure your postfix in the right way.

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