Hey everyone, I'm facing some challenges while trying to set up an email server using Dovecot and Postfix on one of Hetzner's servers. I can receive incoming emails just fine, but sending emails is where I'm stuck. I can only send emails using the domain of my server, ragingservers.com. I'm really new to this and trying my best to follow the documentation, but it's been a struggle. I also noticed that Postfix seems to be in a frozen state and isn't providing much in the logs, while Dovecot is active and logging properly. Any tips or advice on how to get this working would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Are you using one of Hetzner's cloud servers? If so, they often block outgoing port 25 by default to prevent spammers. That might be why you're having trouble sending emails. When you try to send emails, does Postfix not log anything at all? Do the emails get stuck in the queue?
Yes, I am using their cloud servers and I will check that out. Postfix doesn’t output anything when I try to send emails—just some info when I restart it. Luckily, emails aren’t getting stuck in the queue anymore; that was an issue I managed to fix.