GO HERE E-mails not enabled by default on Pulbic PBX 2020?

[Tin_Man_0]

So I made myself a VM on the cloud and did the whole enchilada install, setup my extensions, and ran the public pbx script. After that I noticed I hadn't gotten any emails so I went ahead and configured a smart host, but still no emails. I manually checked using telnet from the pbx to my smarthost and recieved the email, yet leaving voicemails or click on the "save and send e-mail" option in the user management, and yet still no e-mails. Like at all for anything. Is the email option not enabled by default? I've been looking around on the gui for e-mail server settings or anything that could or would enable it but no luck. Where do I start?

 

[dhoppy]

For me it just worked. Sometimes I have to request that the cloud provider (for me Vultr) unblock outbound port 25. What do your mail queue logs say?

 

[Tin_Man_0]

For me it just worked. Sometimes I have to request that the cloud provider (for me Vultr) unblock outbound port 25. What do your mail queue logs say?

Where are the logs? and as far as ports being blocked, it unlikely since I have an email server already running on my subnet. Not to mention, I'd see emails stuck in the queue. I'm not seeing anything in the queue that the gui normally will display and I got nothing in the queue on my mail server running MS Exchange, and my testss aren't even attemping to route email to external domains, i'm just trying to send it to my in-house mailbox an my manual telnet tests issuing commands line line at a time to my exchange sever from freepbx get delivered. So I difinately need something from freepbx as to what is happening, I just don't know where to look.

 

[tbrummell]

tail -f /var/log/maillog

Leave yourself a voicemail and see what happens.

 

[wardmundy]

@Tin_Man_0: See this post.

 

[Tin_Man_0]

Ok, so I did a tail on the mail log and I get the following error. But before I just go changing permissions on a folder, I'm wondering why I'm getting this, just maybe there's a setting or something that will change all that needs to be corrected instead of chasing errors one at at a time.

noreply sendmail[#####]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(asterisk): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied

I noticed in this log, there isn't a thing mentioned about my server settings, I'm guessing It's failing before it even gets started. Probably explains why I don't even have anything in the queue.

 

[Tin_Man_0]

@Tin_Man_0: See this post.

Thank you! I knew it wasn't supposed to be complicated. It did, however overwrite all the little settings I had put in, or tried... that might have been a good thing though lol. Funny thing I noticed, if I put in a direct IP in the relay setting in webmin, it doesn't work either. It attempts to resolve the ip as if it were a name. In any case, a name is probably better anyway.

**EDIT**

Ok, so maybe I declared victory just a little too soon. I'm still getting that error in the logs and in the GUI Dashboard, but email is being delivered now. I'm guessing that if an email can't be delivered right away it justs gets crushed and not dropped into the queue with this last error going on.

noreply sendmail[#####]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(asterisk): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied