Question SMTP Server required for sending emails?

[FYI]

Server operating system version

Debian 12

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.73

Hey everyone,

actually i'm using plesk just for webhosting but not for mail hosting, so i did not installed the mail server components.

When creating users, i would still like to send them their emails to activate their account and get informations, but it seems that i cant configure a external smtp server to use for sending emails?

Can anyone give me a hint if i'm missing something?

Best regards

 

[Kaspar]

To relay mail messages from Plesk, like for example notifications, using an external SMTP server, a mail server still needs to be installed. You can either use MSMTP, which can only be used to relay messages externally, or use Postfix with the Smarthost feature.

 

[FYI]

Yeah i found the article about configuring MSMTP but my problem with it is, that it tries to send the email from [email protected] and not from the user which i define as SMTP account e.g. [email protected] so i would need to do much workaround to get this working (creating a subdomain dns zone, configure the mailserver to handle it as alias domain und create a alias to the corresporending user.

When trying to install postfix via the components it wants to install dovecot to i would have a full mailserver which i actually dont want to have. Basically the MSTMP is what i want - but it should use the user as email and not any other.

 

[FYI]

unfortunately editing message above isnt possible so new answer....

I found this:

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12378146901655-How-to-configure-MSMTP-to-use-the-website-domain-name-instead-of-the-server-hostname-while-sending-emails

But the file itself says:

#ATTENTION!
#
#DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY,
#SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED.

So i would still need a workaround like a script which runs every x seconds and checks if the from is set correct and if not changes it. A bit dirty. An option within the plugin to set this would be way more easy - cause this file already gets generated by the settings of the MSMTP... Just one field more

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Sadly, it already exists since 2017 as feature request