Im sure im missing something here...
I have a domain hosted on a vps running virtualmin, say domain.com, and was wanting to setup an email account with email clients (say GMAIL, or outlook).
For convo, lets say the address is me@domain.com, i added "me" user under the domain with a password.
so i went to gmail settings -> accounts, and "add account you own". filled in the email address -> me@domain.com
next screen "mail settings", filled in the username/password for user correctly (yes these are correct), filled in the POP server as mail.domain.com (port = 110), and went next. This authenticated correctly. Next section is send emails as (and i dont want it to be an alias of the gmail address, i want it to go through the smtp). And at this screen, i dont know what to select as the SMTP server, the port and the TSL/SSL options. Can someone help me? i tried mail.domain.com with the correct passwords, but no luck (unless its need to be set to some specific port?).
Thoughts and suggestions? Do i need to enable anything on the server to setup smtp?
Howdy,
When you used the default settings for the SMTP server, and it didn't work, what error(s) did you receive?
-Eric
Attempt 1: SMTP Server: smtp.domain.com Username: me@domain.com pass: ... port: 587 Secure Connection using TSL
Authentication failed. Please check your username/password.[Server response: DNS Error: Domain name not found code(0) ]
Attempt 2: SMTP Server: mail.domain.com Username: me@domain.com pass: ... port: 587 Secure Connection using TSL
Authentication failed. Please check your username/password.[Server response: Remote server does not support TLS code(500) ]
Attempt 3: SMTP Server: mail.domain.com Username: me pass: ... port: 587 Secure Connection using SSL
Couldn't reach server. Please double-check the server and port number.Attempt 4: SMTP Server: mail.domain.com Username: me (also same error if you use me@domain.com) pass: ... port: 587 Secure Connection using SSL
Couldn't reach server. Please double-check the server and port number.Attempt 5: SMTP Server: smtp.domain.com Username: me (also same error if you use me@domain.com) pass: ... port: 587 Secure Connection using SSL
Authentication failed. Please check your username/password.[Server response: DNS Error: Domain name not found code(0) ]
Basic settings for pop worked just fine, using username me@domain.com and the password. POP Settings that worked: Username: me@domain.com pass: ... POP server: mail.domain.com port: 110
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Can anyone help on this?
Hey, try attempt #4 again, so mail.domain.com with SSL but use port 465. If that also fails check and make sure your firewall is allowing it.
Also, you seem to be getting a lot of DNS errors. I'd make sure that DNS is working properly on your server.
For example, if you type this command on your server:
host software.virtualmin.comDo you get an IP address? Or does it throw an error?
-Eric