[PVE-User] Email setup in Proxmox VE

[Erik van Ast]

Hi all,

First of all, Martin thank you for your answers (pve-user Digest, Vol 26, Issue 11) yesterday, they were very helpful..

My colleague has installed Proxmox 1.5 and delivered the server to me a couple of weeks ago. Everything is working fine now except for one thing : email messages are not being send/delivered.
I have a backup job running every night and after the backup has run, an email is sent to me, but that message never arrives. When I look in the logs I see the following :

May 20 11:55:10 smtp 21389 connect to mail.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out
May 20 11:55:10 smtp 21390 connect to mail.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out
May 20 11:55:36 proxwww 21416 Starting new child 21416
May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21389 connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out
May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21390 connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out
May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21389 6F4EC3B87EE: to=<Erik.van.Ast at xxxxxx.nl>, relay=none, delay=699, delays=639/0.03/60/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out)
May 20 11:55:40 smtp 21390 219743B87E5: to=<Erik.van.Ast at xxxxxx.nl>, relay=none, delay=166595, delays=166535/0.03/60/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mail2.xxxxxx.nl[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25: Connection timed out)

How can I correctly configure the email settings on this server?

Kind regards,
Erik van Ast