Setting up Email

[kirkdickinson]

OK, I have read many of the email threads here. I have my gateway set up and I am pretty sure I have all the fields set correctly. I think this is actually a bug of some kind.

I have a user name freenas@mydomain.net
but the error message says:
Your test email could not be sent: {u'freenasfreenas@mydomain.net': (550, ' No such user here')}

It appears that FreeNAS is duplicating my user name and sending the wrong username to the server for authentication.

Weird.... :( ??

 

[kirkdickinson]

OK, my stupidity. I had it that way in the root email setting. Duh.

 

[kirkdickinson]

Now I am getting the message:

• Your test email could not be sent: [Errno 8] hostname nor servname provided, or not known

I can ping the host from the shell and it works fine. I have a gateway set and a nameserver. Those seem to be the two things mentioned in other posts from people having problems.

 

[nightshade00013]

Some ISP's block certain ports. If your ISP is not the ones controlling the mailserver you will probably need to use ssl or tls and whatever port the mailserver controller has it set to.

As an example I have cox internet and port 25 is blocked so I use port 465 instead.

http://www.cox.com/residential/supp...rticleId=cacf82f0-6407-11df-ccef-000000000000

 

[kirkdickinson]

Some ISP's block certain ports. If your ISP is not the ones controlling the mailserver you will probably need to use ssl or tls and whatever port the mailserver controller has it set to.

As an example I have cox internet and port 25 is blocked so I use port 465 instead.

http://www.cox.com/residential/supp...rticleId=cacf82f0-6407-11df-ccef-000000000000

This is a server for one of my websites. I pay for the server and have 20 emails+ on that server set up on Windows machines, Macbooks, iphones, android phones, etc... I don't think anything is blocked because I have no other problems accessing email on my other devices.

I think I have something set up wrong in FreeNAS, but am not sure what it is?

 

[nightshade00013]

I do the same thing, I have a few domain names and websites for each one. For me to send emails though it from home I have to use ssl on port 465. Most of the times when you have a server and you use an automatic configuration script it will set these things so they just work. I took a couple tries to figure out what would be needed when I did this.

As far as the blocked ports, if your email server is not at home with your FreeNAS server then try the SSL connection.

If you don't know if a port is blocked then try this and see http://www.canyouseeme.org/


This is how my email is setup:

I also made sure to set the email I want things set to for the root user.

 

[kirkdickinson]

Weird, even though I was getting errors, I had some emails come through from my free FreeNAS server with status reports. I was still getting the error and today got on my host's website and noticed that they were recomending port 26 instead of 25. I know my Thunderbird email on my windows machine is set up to port 25 and that works. I changed the FreeNAS to port 26 and stopped getting the error and my test message went through.

Really weird.

Working now. Doesn't make sense, but I am not complaining. :)