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diff --git a/doc/reply_by_email/postfix.md b/doc/reply_by_email/postfix.md index 1d80037c1da..e2a974fbe17 100644 --- a/doc/reply_by_email/postfix.md +++ b/doc/reply_by_email/postfix.md @@ -4,21 +4,10 @@ This document will take you through the steps of setting up a basic Postfix mail The instructions make the assumption that you will be using the email address `replies@gitlab.example.com`, that is, username `replies` on host `gitlab.example.com`. Don't forget to change it to your actual host when executing the example code snippets. -## Configure your server DNS +## Configure your server firewall -1. Add an MX record pointing from `gitlab.example.com` to your server IP. -1. Add an A record pointing from `mail.gitlab.example.com` to your server IP. -1. Verify that the changes have propagated: - - ```sh - dig mx gitlab.example.com - ``` - - ```sh - dig a mail.gitlab.example.com - ``` - - You should see an `ANSWER SECTION` with the expected result in the output for both. +1. Open up port 25 on your server so that people can send email into the server over SMTP. +2. If the mail server is different from the server running GitLab, open up port 143 on your server so that GitLab can read email from the server over IMAP. ## Install packages @@ -183,7 +172,7 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requiers mailbo 1. Let Postfix know about the domains that it should consider local: ```sh - sudo postconf -e "mydestination = mail.gitlab.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost, gitlab.example.com" + sudo postconf -e "mydestination = gitlab.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost" ``` 1. Let Postfix know about the IPs that it should consider part of the LAN: @@ -200,12 +189,6 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requiers mailbo sudo postconf -e "inet_interfaces = all" ``` -1. Configure Postfix to receive mail on both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols: - - ```sh - sudo postconf -e "inet_protocols = all" - ``` - 1. Configure Postfix to use the `+` delimiter for sub-addressing: ```sh @@ -215,7 +198,7 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requiers mailbo 1. Restart Postfix: ```sh - sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart + sudo service postfix restart ``` ## Test the final setup @@ -225,14 +208,14 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requiers mailbo 1. Connect to the SMTP server: ```sh - telnet mail.gitlab.example.com 25 + telnet gitlab.example.com 25 ``` You should see a prompt like this: ```sh Trying 123.123.123.123... - Connected to mail.gitlab.example.com. + Connected to gitlab.example.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 gitlab.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) ``` @@ -287,7 +270,7 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requiers mailbo 1. Connect to the IMAP server: ```sh - telnet mail.gitlab.example.com 143 + telnet gitlab.example.com 143 ``` You should see a prompt like this: |