New server initial email setup help

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Hey all,

New hestia user here, looking to migrate 10 or so domains from a plesk setup by the middle of January. I hope that’ll be possible.

I’ve got my server setup (Ubuntu 22.04 vm running on vultr) and have installed hestia. I also added a LE TLS cert via the v-add-letsencrypt-host command and all seems to be good from that front.

I’m just trying to understand the email notification side of things before I get too much further and wondered if someone could help.

I assume that notifications will be sent to the email address specified in the installer and I think I recall seeing that they come from noreply@ the FQDN of the hestia server. Is that correct?

Regarding spf, dkim, dmark; I guess I need to add the A record for the server to my SPF record but I am unsure how to setup dkim. I think that dmark should not need any changes if spf and dkim are correct.

I also wonder if there is a way to generate a “test” notification so I can see if things are working and I assume that the /var/log/eximn4/mainlog is the place to go to monitor things?

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another question… Does the settings > configure > mailserver > global SMTP server apply to all domains on the server (which is my assumption) or just to the hestia CP part?

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All outgoing email (send via Exim) so also domains…

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Thanks @eris

So if I want customer domain name emails to be sent directly from the hestia server I must not use a global smtp relay server.

Any idea on generating a test notification from the server to check if they are being delivered correctly?