Sending Mail

[liamloveslearning]

Hi everybody,

Recently my workplace have purchased their own dedicated server so we can host all of our websites ourselves; I've uploaded all of the websites only the email forms have ceased working, could this potentially be something we need to configure on the server?

[trq]

could this potentially be something we need to configure on the server?

 

Yes. You need a mail server.

[liamloveslearning]

Ahh thanks, Excuse my naivity, but I presume this is a big job for somebody with no prior knowledge?

[trq]

Yeah, mail servers are something that really need to be done right or they can cause all sorts of security issues.

 

You can also configure things to work using a remotely hosted mail service like gmail or even your isp usually. Might be a better way to go.

 

You would simply install a package called ssmtp  and configure it accordingly. This will give you a sendmail clone that will forward your mail through a remote smtp server. You cannot accept mail back in this way though.

[liamloveslearning]

Thats brilliant, thanks thorpe