wireMailSMTP and mailInABox

[benbyf]

Happen to be any email DNS ninja's out there?! Running a email server using mailinabox on a digitalOcean droplet and sending email from a PW site using wireMailSMTP. Something is set wrong as I mostly SMTP errors:

Error in hnsmtp::send : 554 5.7.1 <*******@gmail.com>: Relay access denied

when sending out emails. logins etc are correct and I get this error when sending. Anyone happen to know what might be happening here or what might be missing from my domain DNS to make this the case..?

[netcarver]

Hey @benbyf I don't run my own servers, but there is some info here about DNS records for people doing self-hosted stuff...
 

• The Digital Life on YT:
  
  There are other videos on that channel about self hosting email servers - but I note he's recently given up self hosting mail services.

[benbyf]

Thanks @netcarver, yeah email is some sort of hell

[netcarver]

Is your intent to use your self-hosted service for email sends only?  Or receipt as well?

[benbyf]

Just now, netcarver said:

Is your intent to use your self-hosted service for email sends only?  Or receipt as well?

so theres a mailbox set up on the server and I'm connecting to it to send from the PW site via wiremail

[netcarver]

You may want to check your droplet IP address is not in a spam blocklist somewhere as well, "Relay Access Denied" Kind of sounds like an auth issue.

Updated to add: there's a blacklist checker here you could try.

DMARC, DKIM & SPF set up on the DNS service?

[benbyf]

okkkkk turns out that using mail() sends fine but wiremail() does not ? @horst any thoughts on why this might be the case?

[rick]

Make sure that your from address is the same as your user (login) address, and that you have the dns records defined as netcarver stated.

On a similar note, I don't use mailinabox, rather an old squirrel mail install for linuxdude. It is a pita running your own mail server by keeping up with the spammers. And you will have spammers.

[benbyf]

ok, so somehow its working.... fingers crossed, not sure what but did a mix of all the settings and something has started working with one of the combinations... FML i hate email

3 hours ago, netcarver said:

Hey @benbyf I don't run my own servers, but there is some info here about DNS records for people doing self-hosted stuff...
 

• The Digital Life on YT:
  
  There are other videos on that channel about self hosting email servers - but I note he's recently given up self hosting mail services.

also this was really useful by the way