Email Setting do not work

Distro Discussion & Help
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Hi,

I’m trying to configure email settings on my FreePBX box and i’m not having any luck. (ideally, i want emails sent with voicemails, etc… but right now none of that actually works.

I purchased the sysAdminPro and i tried to setup the email server settings. on trying to send myself a debug file, here is the last few lines of the message log:

Apr 12 11:00:19 localhost postfix/qmgr[4485]: 498EE9ED57: from=[email protected], size=407, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 12 11:00:19 localhost postfix/smtp[4508]: 498EE9ED57: to=[email protected], relay=smtp.cardiaced.com[173.122.171.168]:25, delay=0.67, delays=0.13/0.03/0.44/0.08, dsn=4.0.0, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host smtp.card.com[173.122.171.168] said: 501 Your domain does not seem to be valid. Could not find MX record for your domain. (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

I never receive the email that it was supposed to send (not in junk/spam either). (I’ve redacted some of the sensitive data in the post, i.e. ip address/mail server/username & password).

the settings i have in email setup are as follows:
Use external SMTP Server
SMTP Servier: SMTP.card.com
use Auth
username: [email protected]
password: userpassword
my hostname: localhost
my Origin: localhost
my domain: localhost

I’m a complete newbie at FreePBX etc… therefore, forgive me if there is something else i should have posted. Please ask if you need more information (i may need a little instruction as to what file/log you may need).

Any help is appreciated.

thanks

Lee

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shouldn’t it be smtp.cardiaced.com ???
Also, have you checked your dns settings ??? can you ping google or smtp.cardiaced.com from your freepbx server ???

3

it seems like it is your sending domain that is the problem …
use webmin and create and alias for your sending domain…

you are probably sending from asterisk@localhost or something like that …

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Thanks a ton for your reply.

i think it is trying to send from asterisk@localhost, but i dont know if that is ok or not.

i’ve not got webmin installed (and not certain what it is, but i’ll google and figure it out, hopefully).

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Some people swear by webmin. I am not a fan. It certainly is not supported.

You can easily change your hostname and alias from the command prompt.

hostname xxxxx changes hostname
/etc/host has the alias

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i couldn’t get admin to load–the port wouldn’t work–i think that is already being used for some sip settings or something (or a range from 10000-20000). not sure if that is over kill.
I am VERY green at all of this and never ever used linux before, it is very alien to me.

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SIP uses UDP, webmin uses SSL over port 10000, a TCP service. No conflict.

This is not specific to Linux.

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Just to stress it a bit, the old and long-gone Trixbox had a simple page for configuring emails.

I am not a FreePBX developer (willing to, but don’t have the time nor the skill) but I think it would be a pretty useful and simple module that interfaces with Postfix’s main.cf.

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The $25.00 Sysadmin Pro module has this feature. And it helps support the FreePBX project.