Setting up email sending

create a backup of your postfix config: cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main_bak.cf open /etc/postfix/main.cf add the following rows (make sure none of the rows are duplicated)

#mydestination = $myhostname, server.local, localhost.local, , localhost # you can comment this out
relayhost = [smtp.mail.com]:465 # replace this domain with your mail server
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
smtp_tls_wrappermode = yes
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt

# If your mail provider doesn't support ipv6, add/change this line
inet_protocols = ipv4

create this file: /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with the following content:

[smtp.mail.com]:465    test@mail.com:PASSWD

make it only readable by your user: chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd then: postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd install for passwd support: apt install libsasl2-modules restart postfix: systemctl restart postfix.service you can test it multiple ways:

echo "Test mail from postfix" | mail -s "Test Postfix" test@test.com
OR
echo "test" | /usr/bin/pvemailforward

logs can be found here:

/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.info

Sources: