Archive Trac emailserver

Emailserver

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Setting up an email server

• an email server is needed to support email in genapp html5 instances.
• you can set it up yourself or use an existing smtp server.
• you will need to add email addresses specific to each app's appconfig.json.
• if you have an available smtp server, you can configure it directly in appconfig.json under the "smtp" tag
  • N.B. just leave off the smtp tag if sendmail is working on your host server

installing postfix

• we generally use postfix for a mail server on web servers
  • Ubuntu : {{{ $ sudo apt-get -y install postfix }}}
  • CentOS/RedHat : {{{ $ sudo yum -y install postfix }}}
• then we edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to allow only the local server to send email

inet_interfaces = loopback-only

• then {{{ $ sudo service postfix restart }}}

testing email

• to make sure email is working

$ cd /opt/genapp/genapptest/output/html5/util
$ php test_mail.php <redacted-email>

• a good result will look something like

from /opt/genapp/genapptest/appconfig.json:
stdClass Object
(
    [admin] => <redacted-email>,<redacted-email>
    [feedback] => feedback@some-google-group-or-whatever, <redacted-email>
    [from] => 149.165.169.58
)
test message to <redacted-email> using sendmail
send looks ok, now check the mail for <redacted-email> to make sure it went through