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Why postfix on Ubuntu 20.04 does not send email to external email accounts?

Posted on February 1, 2021

I followed the article (“How To Install and Configure Postfix as a Send-Only SMTP Server” from Digital Ocean knowledge base) line by line several times and the most I got was to send email within internal users. I can’t get postfix sending email to external email accounts, hence my Magento installation won’t send out email do my customer. Any clue what could it be?

Thank you,

Cheizer

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KFSys

February 2, 2021

Hi @helenapreclikova,

Most probably your sending port, either 25, 465 or 587 is not allowed to do outgoing connections. If you are using UFW please do the following:

sudo ufw allow 25/tcp
sudo ufw allow 465/tcp
sudo ufw allow 587/tcp
sudo ufw reload

If you are using plain IPtables use:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 465 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 587 -j ACCEPT

Now to allow access to incoming connections:

Allow All Incoming SMTP To allow your server to respond to SMTP connections, port 25, run these commands:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 25 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

The second command, which allows the outgoing traffic of established SMTP connections, is only necessary if the OUTPUT policy is not set to ACCEPT.

Regards, KDSys

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