With CirrusGrid Platform it is possible to integrate mail server to your virtual private machine. Below, we’ll guide you through the steps required to get one on within the CentOS VPS. For that, you need to access the required container over SSH protocol using the preferable connection flow (e.g. web-based client for CentOS in our case) and carry out the following steps:
In the current guide we are going to leverage the Postfix mail server, so follow the next steps to install it within your VPS container and verify if it works as intended.
Run the Postfix installer with the following yum command:
During the installation process, you’ll need to confirm (i.e. press and submit the ‘y‘ response) the following points:
echo thisistestmail | mail -s test {your_email}
Here, the {your_email} placeholder is an email address, the test email will be sent to.
Great! Email server is installed and we can proceed to applying the appropriate configurations.
For the proper workflow of the recently installed Postfix mail server, you may need to apply some settings within its main configuration file. For example, you can manually specify the list of “trusted” clients, that will be able to relay emails through the Postfix:
mynetworks_style = host
mynetworks = {server1 IP address}, {server2 IP address}
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
3. Now you can send messages from the previously specified client (the local machine or the stated server(s)).However, you also need to adjust your application to work properly with the newly installed mail server. For that, add the code of the following type to your applicatication configuration file deployed to VPS container.
package com.mkyong.common; import java.util.Properties; import javax.mail.Message; import javax.mail.MessagingException; import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication; import javax.mail.Session; import javax.mail.Transport; import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress; import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage; public class SendMailTLS { public static void main(String[] args) { Properties props = new Properties(); props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "false"); props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "false"); props.put("mail.smtp.host", "host"); props.put("mail.smtp.port", "25"); try { Session session = Session.getInstance(props); Message message = new MimeMessage(session); message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("[email protected]")); message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse("[email protected]")); message.setSubject("Testing Subject"); message.setText("Text of the message"); Transport.send(message); System.out.println("Done"); } catch (MessagingException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } }
That’s all. The mail server has been successfully adjusted to work with application deployed to VPS container.
Note: Refer to the Postfix official documentation to reveal more details considering required mail server configurations.
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