I faced this issue many times when I had to test the mail feature in my projects. I then had to add SMTP library separately to check in different web based mails like Google Mail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, etc. or need to upload the code to production servers where mails worked.<\/p>\n
Mandrill (sends to any really account – preferred for UAT and Production systems) and Mailtrap<\/a> (sends to single account for any email address – preferred for Development systems) provides a very good way to do this. With small changes in configuration of the server we can easily use this to send mails to any account without having SPAM issues.<\/p>\n Mandrill can also be a very useful tool to send mails in production if Client has budget or the number of mails are very limited. It provides tracking tools, graph and we can even configure BCC on all mails without changing code for debugging purpose.<\/p>\n Today, I will cover how to configure it in Postfix (Linux Ubuntu\/CentOS\/Amazon Linux) and XAMPP using Sendmail.<\/p>\n Installing Postfix is easy, just run this command as root:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Basically, you need to create a password file so that Postfix can authenticate to Gmail’s servers. You do this by creating a file named sasl_passwd in \/etc\/postfix. Replace smtp_user and smtp_passwd with their respective values.<\/p>\n Step 1A (Mandrill): Step 1B (Mailtrap): You then hash that file so that the password is not stored in clear text. This command will create a file named sasl_passwd.db in the \/etc\/postfix\/ directory.<\/p>\n Step 2: postmap hash:\/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd<\/p>\n After that is done, add these to the bottom of \/etc\/postfix\/main.cf. This is assuming that your root certificates installed from openssl are located in \/etc\/pki\/tls\/certs\/ca-bundle.crt.<\/p>\n Step 3A (Mandrill)<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes # Secure channel TLS with exact nexthop name match. tep 3B (Mailtrap):<\/p>\n smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes After that is done, restart postfix:<\/span><\/p>\n Step 4: service postfix restart<\/span><\/p>\n Now test it to make sure it is working. Run this:<\/span><\/p>\n Step 5: mail email@domain<\/span><\/p>\n Fill in the subject, put something in the body and then type a . and hit enter.<\/span><\/p>\n If all went well, you should get an email at the email address you entered. If you do, you can delete the file that has the password.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 6: rm \/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd<\/span><\/p>\n If it did not work, check the log to see what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 7: tail \/var\/log\/maillog<\/span><\/p>\n Everything should be good after you get everything set up, so enjoy your new SMTP relay with Mandrill<\/a> or <\/span>Mailtrap<\/a><\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>Installing Postfix<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/span>Configuring in Postfix<\/span><\/h3>\n
\necho “smtp.mandrillapp.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 smtp_user:smtp_passwd” > \/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd<\/p>\n
\necho “smtp.mandrillapp.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 smtp_user:smtp_passwd” > \/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd<\/p>\n
\nsmtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:\/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd
\nsmtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous<\/p>\n
\nsmtp_tls_security_level = secure
\nsmtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = TLSv1
\nsmtp_tls_mandatory_ciphers = high
\nsmtp_tls_secure_cert_match = nexthop
\nsmtp_tls_CAfile = \/etc\/pki\/tls\/certs\/ca-bundle.crt
\nrelayhost = smtp.mandrillapp.com:587<\/p>\n
\nsmtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:\/etc\/postfix\/sasl_passwd
\nsmtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
\nrelayhost = mailtrap.io:2525<\/p>\n<\/span>Configuring in XAMPP<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n