How to disable local mail deliverability when using external mail provider?

Hedy · July 20, 2021, 7:51am

Hi,

I have several users which using external email providers (gandi.net, ovh…) when the website it’s hosted by hestiaCP
The MX DNS are set correctly and that work fine.

But not for the mails sent from the hestiacp server to it’s own domain, for exemple from a contact form.

Example :

hosted website : domain.com
external mail box : [email protected]
the contact form from the website domain.com can’t send mail to [email protected] because the server is trying to send it to himself instead of asking external MX

How to solve nicely this issue ?

Ubi · July 20, 2021, 8:16am

Delete email domain from hestia

jlguerrero · July 20, 2021, 8:34am

Do as @Ubi says

You can also check the SPF record

You may also connect your websites to your SMTP mail server so that emails are sent from the email server

Felix · July 27, 2021, 10:41am

And that is the best practice, if you want the sent emails to have any chance to reach the inbox of the recipient. This is because most email providers reject non-authenticated emails, in an effort to combat spam. This can get pretty serious in situations of emails for password recovery emails and/or 2FA emails.

eris · July 27, 2021, 10:53am

We have fixed this issue with 1.4.8 you can set up an smtp account for internal mail from Hestia

jlguerrero · July 27, 2021, 11:49am

That is awesome!

Felix · July 28, 2021, 9:26am

I was looking in the Web UI for the SMTP account for internal Hestia mails, but instead I found it on the command line with the commands v-add-sys-smtp and v-delete-sys-smtp. Just putting that information here, which may help others looking for that.

eris · July 28, 2021, 11:01am

You can also use:

github.com

hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/main/install/upgrade/manual/configure-server-smtp.sh

#!/bin/bash
# info: setup SMTP Account for server logging
# options: NONE
# labels:
#
# example: configure-server-smtp.sh
#
# This function provides an user-interactive configuration of a SMTP account
# for the server to use for logging, notification and warn emails etc.

#----------------------------------------------------------#
#                    Variable&Function                     #
#----------------------------------------------------------#

# Includes
# shellcheck source=/usr/local/hestia/func/main.sh
source $HESTIA/func/main.sh
# shellcheck source=/usr/local/hestia/conf/hestia.conf
source $HESTIA/conf/hestia.conf

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Located in /usr/local/hestia/install/upgrade/manual/ folder

system · August 27, 2021, 11:02am

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