Smarthost requires password

[Verbunk]

Hi Guys,

In the admin UI under the MTA there is a spot to put a smarthost and port. My question is what happens when the smarthost requires authentication?

To keep a long story short, I'm looking to use gmail as a smarthost b/c there are some BOFH that define waaaay to restrictive spam guidelines and lowly me not having a proper domian is finding my emails rejected outright. I have already used

zmprov ma me@PC.local.net zimbraMailCanonicalAddress blah@where.com

to change my email to my gmail address (to use gmail's always on servers to catch incoming which I can then fetchmail) but that's evidently not enough for some businesses.

Any tips on how to instruct zimbra to use gmail as a smarthost?

-Joshua


p.s. Happy Birthday KevinH

[phoenix]

Search the wiki for 'relay'.

[Verbunk]

Thanks for the pointer.

I followed the directions here
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?tit...Authentication

<code>
"Change relay host in Admin UI"

$ echo smtp.gmail.com username@gmail.comassword > /opt/zimbra/conf/relay_password

$ postmap /opt/zimbra/conf/relay_password

$ postmap -q smtp.gmail.com /opt/zimbra/conf/relay_password

$ postconf -e smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/opt/zimbra/conf/relay_password
$ postconf -e smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes

$ postfix reload
</code>

But the email headers still suggest it's not using the relay host even after a full zimbra restart (just in case). A check of the 'All Mail' folder (which should save a copy of the mail I believe) doesn't show the email.

Can you see what I'm doing wrong?

-J

[phoenix]

Does running 'postconf -n' as the Zimbra user show those changes as having been made? Did you also look in the logfiles for any authentication errors?

[Verbunk]

Upon another restart of the zimbra services it's not sending mail out at all so the relay host may have taken effect, but there is no mention of sending errors etc in mailbox.log. The emails just aren't sent....

I have confirmed that postconf -n returns what I put in for the wiki procedure.

[phoenix]

Is there anything like:

(Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server ...: no mechanism available)

in the logs? What do you meany by 'The emails just aren't sent....'? Where are the messages? How do you know they're not sent?

[Verbunk]

ok, in the mail queue in admin UI it says

Reason: connect to gmail-smtp.l.google.com[IP] Read timeout

I did not find that error message in any of the logs in the /opt/zimbra/log folder.