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Send reliable emails from your RunAbove instances using Mailjet |
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gierschv |
During the usage of your RunAbove instances, you'll need to send some emails for different purposes (i.e. monitoring, notifications, web application, etc). However if sending emails is not your job and you've never heard of SPF, DKIM, IP Reputation or PTR, you may just want a reliable way to send your emails without without wasting time in configuration and monitoring.
In this guide, you'll discover how to configure a postfix service in your instance to use Mailjet as a reliable email relay. Mailjet allows you to send emails without taking care of the email infrastructure, assuring you a great deliverability in your mailings. This service is recommended by OVH.com, the creator of RunAbove.
If you don't have a Mailjet account, create one in few seconds on the Mailjet website. For your information, Mailjet provides a free tier up to 12 000 emails per months.
In this guide, we'll use Postfix as a local email
relay to the
Mailjet SMTP
service. This simple configuration will allow you to send emails using your
usual configuration (i.e. 127.0.0.1:25 or the sendmail command).
If you are using a debian or ubuntu image, install the necessary packages:
$ sudo apt-get install postfix libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
Postfix configuration wizard will ask you some questions. Just select Internet Site and for FQDN, something like your_domain.com.
Then, grab the SMTP credentials provided in the Mailjet dashboard, and edit your
Postfix config file, /etc/postfix/main.cf configuring the following
parameters:
relayhost = [in-v3.mailjet.com]:587
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
In /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd, add your Mailjet SMTP credentials:
[in-v3.mailjet.com]:587 user:password
Rebuild the map and chown these it to ensure only root is able to read it:
$ sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
$ sudo chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*
$ sudo chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*
Finally, reload your Postfix service:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload
You can now send your first mail using your local Mail Transfer Agent and the Mailjet service:
$ echo 'Hello world' | sendmail -f [email protected] -t [email protected]
And monitor your outgoing emails reading your mail log:
$ tail -f /var/log/mail.log
Nov 17 15:09:32 my-instance.runabove.com postfix/smtp[1234]: DA4E220008A: to=<[email protected]>, relay=in-v3.mailjet.com[5.196.43.129]:587, delay=0.18, delays=0.03/0/0.13/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 0C0151AC06F9)