Greeting
I have two droplets, one is for my production, which has the WHM cPanel installed, and another one is my testing droplet. For some developments, I need to be able to send email SMTP from testing droplet for testing purpose.
My question is can I allow my testing droplet to use my production droplet for SMTP access in order to send testing email?
My testing droplet uses Ubuntu 16.04 64x My Production droplet uses CentOS 7.2 64x
Please help
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Hello there,
You can specify an outgoing server as the SMTP relay server in configurations like Postfix. You just need to specify the server in the configuration file of the respective software of your choice.
However, I’ll personally recommend using a third-party mail service provider like SendGrid to send your outgoing emails.
You can also check this article:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server
Hope that this helps!
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