Mailgun Overview
What is Mailgun? Mailgun is an email automation service acquired by Rackspace in 2012. It offers a complete cloud-based email service for sending, receiving and tracking email sent through your websites and...
Now we've added the vmail user, we are ready to install Postfix and MySQL. Remember, we will be using MySQL to control the domains and user details for our mail server.
Now that we've configured Postfix to use MySQL, we can begin creating the means to use secure connections with our mail server. We do this by using saslauthd.
Following from the Postfix - Installation article, we can now look at the main.cf file and see what the settings are and what they mean.
Note that at this stage we are dealing with a single domain for our email needs.
The base package for all the mail articles will be postfix. There are alternatives to postfix, each with advantages and disadvantages and, without going into the differences, we have chosen Postfix due its relative ease of...
Now that we've configured Postfix to use MySQL, we can begin creating the means to use secure connections with our mail server. We do this by using saslauthd.
So far, we have sent test emails using the command line.
However, there is no real feedback from these clients as to how our mail server responded - did it respond with the correct details? Note that it is possible to send/...