E-Mail/Server/Setup/Testing

Testing

1. To send and receive test emails to your mail server, install the Mailutils package:

# apt-get install mailutils

1. Send a test email to an email address outside of your mail server, like a Gmail account.

• Replace email1@example.com with an email address from your mail server:

echo "Email body text" | # mail -s "Email subject line" recipient@gmail.com -aFrom:email1@example.com

1. Log in to the test email account and verify that you have received the email from the specified mail server email address.
2. Send a test email to your mail server from an outside email address.

• Log back in and check that the email was received; substitute in the username and domain you sent the mail to:

# mail -f /var/mail/vhosts/example.com/email1

When prompted, enter the number corresponding to the email you would like to view:

"/var/mail/vhosts/example.com/": 9 messages 5 new 4 unread
U  1 John Doe   Wed Jun 27 16:00 57/2788 Test email 1
U  2 John Doe   Wed Jun 27 16:02 56/2761 Test email 2
U  3 John Doe   Wed Jun 27 16:35 15/594  Test email 3
U  4 John Doe   Wed Jun 27 16:42 71/3535 Test email 4
>N  5 John Doe   Mon Jul 2 10:55 13/599  Subject of the Email
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The email message header and body should display.

• Consider adding spam and virus filtering and a webmail client.

See Troubleshooting problems with Postfix, Dovecot, and MySQL for debugging steps.