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    • NashBrydgesN
      NashBrydges @black3dynamite
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      @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

      In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, the following would need to be changed:
      inet_interfaces needs to be changed from localhost to all
      mynetworks should include the networks or hosts that will be accessing your postfix server.

      I've also added my fixed IP address to the SPF record in Office 365. I discovered a while ago that without this, emails eventually get blocked as unauthorised to send on behalf of the domain I was using.

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      • NashBrydgesN
        NashBrydges @Obsolesce
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        @tim_g said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

        @zachary715

        I'm doing the same thing (also on a .local) using an O365 relay server. It's a Windows Server set up to be an SMTP relay for O365.

        If you fire an email to it, it'll relay it to O365, and send as whatever "from address" you use, so long as the SMTP Relay account is able to send on behalf of that email.

        What I do, is set up an O365 security group for each email I want to send as.

        Example:

        • Set up a security group in O365 and set the email to [email protected]
        • Give the "smtp relay" account permission to send as/send on behalf on the above.
        • Use that email as the "from address", and poing yoru server to the SMTP relay server.

        I haven't done it on Linux, so I'm completely unfamiliar with that, but I can walk you through setting it up on a Windows Server using the built-in components (it uses IIS), if you go the Windows Server route.

        That works for those devices that can self-authenticate via an actual account on Office 365. That works for my Sophos XG UTM for example but not for the majority of Linux servers I'm running.

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        • zachary715Z
          zachary715 @NashBrydges
          last edited by

          @nashbrydges said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

          @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

          In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, the following would need to be changed:
          inet_interfaces needs to be changed from localhost to all
          mynetworks should include the networks or hosts that will be accessing your postfix server.

          I've also added my fixed IP address to the SPF record in Office 365. I discovered a while ago that without this, emails eventually get blocked as unauthorised to send on behalf of the domain I was using.

          And I've seen this mentioned, but didn't know if I even needed to go through Office 365 to accomplish this since I'm doing internal only. I was running into this before though when trying to send e-mails from the UPS and they were blocked as spoofed.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @zachary715
            last edited by

            @zachary715 said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

            Before we get too deep off into postfix specifics, my main question is about the proper or "best" way to accomplish this and whether postfix is that method.

            @black3dynamite I'm implementing these steps now. Will test once I've tweaked these settings and see where I get. Thanks

            Yes, that's how we do it.

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            • zachary715Z
              zachary715 @Obsolesce
              last edited by

              @tim_g said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

              @zachary715

              I'm doing the same thing (also on a .local) using an O365 relay server. It's a Windows Server set up to be an SMTP relay for O365.

              If you fire an email to it, it'll relay it to O365, and send as whatever "from address" you use, so long as the SMTP Relay account is able to send on behalf of that email.

              What I do, is set up an O365 security group for each email I want to send as.

              Example:

              • Set up a security group in O365 and set the email to [email protected]
              • Give the "smtp relay" account permission to send as/send on behalf on the above.
              • Use that email as the "from address", and point your server to the SMTP relay server.

              I haven't done it on Linux, so I'm completely unfamiliar with that, but I can walk you through setting it up on a Windows Server using the built-in components (it uses IIS), if you go the Windows Server route.

              @Tim_G Looks like a good opportunity for a write-up/guide :winking_face: I'd like to do this Linux first but if all else fails, I will revert to this. Would be nice to have a write-up to fall back on and for others who come looking. I'd love to know how to do it both ways for future use case.

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite
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                To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                If you are using Fedora make sure you have these packages installed:

                sudo dnf -y install postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain mailx
                

                Installing cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain is needed if you want to configure postfix to use TLS.

                Start at the section where it talks about configuring postfix to use TLS.
                https://gordan.jandreoski.me/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-to-office365-on-ubuntu-14-04/

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                • zachary715Z
                  zachary715 @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

                  @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                  To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                  If you are using Fedora make sure you have these packages installed:

                  sudo dnf -y install postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain mailx
                  

                  Installing cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain is needed if you want to configure postfix to use TLS.

                  Start at the section where it talks about configuring postfix to use TLS.
                  https://gordan.jandreoski.me/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-to-office365-on-ubuntu-14-04/

                  Well this is part of my initial question is DO I NEED IT TO RELAY TO OFFICE365 AT ALL if it'll all be internal devices? You could make the argument I guess that eventually there may be an external device I wanted to use this for so set it up this way, but this is what I'm trying to uncover. Complete noob here.

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                  • NashBrydgesN
                    NashBrydges @black3dynamite
                    last edited by

                    @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                    To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                    If you are using Fedora make sure you have these packages installed:

                    sudo dnf -y install postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain mailx
                    

                    Installing cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain is needed if you want to configure postfix to use TLS.

                    Start at the section where it talks about configuring postfix to use TLS.
                    https://gordan.jandreoski.me/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-to-office365-on-ubuntu-14-04/

                    For Postfix to enable TLS, all you need to add to the main config file is this line:

                    smtp_tls_security_level = may
                    

                    Email headers confirm that emails are encrypted. I've checked on Gmail as well as my Office 365 email.

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                    • black3dynamiteB
                      black3dynamite @NashBrydges
                      last edited by

                      @nashbrydges said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                      @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                      To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                      If you are using Fedora make sure you have these packages installed:

                      sudo dnf -y install postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain mailx
                      

                      Installing cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain is needed if you want to configure postfix to use TLS.

                      Start at the section where it talks about configuring postfix to use TLS.
                      https://gordan.jandreoski.me/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-to-office365-on-ubuntu-14-04/

                      For Postfix to enable TLS, all you need to add to the main config file is this line:

                      smtp_tls_security_level = may
                      

                      Email headers confirm that emails are encrypted. I've checked on Gmail as well as my Office 365 email.

                      That's good know.

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                      • NashBrydgesN
                        NashBrydges @black3dynamite
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                        @black3dynamite Here is what it looks like at the Gmail end (personal details obfuscated).
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                        • zachary715Z
                          zachary715 @black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                          In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, the following would need to be changed:
                          inet_interfaces needs to be changed from localhost to all
                          mynetworks should include the networks or hosts that will be accessing your postfix server.

                          Made these changes along with ensuring that SMTP ports were open and I am now receiving email from the UPS device via Postfix.

                          Settings on UPS:

                          From: [email protected]
                          SMTP Server: Postfix server IP Address (192.168.1.x)
                          Port: 25
                          No authentication

                          If this works on the rest of my devices, then I believe we'll be in business and I won't have to involve Office365 at all.

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                          • ObsolesceO
                            Obsolesce @NashBrydges
                            last edited by

                            @nashbrydges said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                            @tim_g said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                            @zachary715

                            I'm doing the same thing (also on a .local) using an O365 relay server. It's a Windows Server set up to be an SMTP relay for O365.

                            If you fire an email to it, it'll relay it to O365, and send as whatever "from address" you use, so long as the SMTP Relay account is able to send on behalf of that email.

                            What I do, is set up an O365 security group for each email I want to send as.

                            Example:

                            • Set up a security group in O365 and set the email to [email protected]
                            • Give the "smtp relay" account permission to send as/send on behalf on the above.
                            • Use that email as the "from address", and poing yoru server to the SMTP relay server.

                            I haven't done it on Linux, so I'm completely unfamiliar with that, but I can walk you through setting it up on a Windows Server using the built-in components (it uses IIS), if you go the Windows Server route.

                            That works for those devices that can self-authenticate via an actual account on Office 365. That works for my Sophos XG UTM for example but not for the majority of Linux servers I'm running.

                            No authentication is needed, that's what the SMTP server is for. For internal devices, so long as they all an SMTP server and port, optionally a from address... that's all that is needed. The SMTP server (O365 Relay) takes care of the auth.

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce @zachary715
                              last edited by

                              @zachary715 said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                              @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                              To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                              If you are using Fedora make sure you have these packages installed:

                              sudo dnf -y install postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain mailx
                              

                              Installing cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain is needed if you want to configure postfix to use TLS.

                              Start at the section where it talks about configuring postfix to use TLS.
                              https://gordan.jandreoski.me/how-to-configure-postfix-relay-to-office365-on-ubuntu-14-04/

                              Well this is part of my initial question is DO I NEED IT TO RELAY TO OFFICE365 AT ALL if it'll all be internal devices? You could make the argument I guess that eventually there may be an external device I wanted to use this for so set it up this way, but this is what I'm trying to uncover. Complete noob here.

                              You don't need a relay if whatever is sending alerts/emails does full authentication by itself. The problem is that many things do not, and many do not even do authentication at all and just have a spot for server and port only.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @black3dynamite
                                last edited by JaredBusch

                                @black3dynamite said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                To have postfix relay to Office 365, you would need to setup postfix to use TLS.

                                Not last time I checked. I do it because i like encryption, but it is not required.

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @zachary715
                                  last edited by JaredBusch

                                  @zachary715 said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                  Well this is part of my initial question is DO I NEED IT TO RELAY TO OFFICE365 AT ALL if it'll all be internal devices? You could make the argument I guess that eventually there may be an external device I wanted to use this for so set it up this way, but this is what I'm trying to uncover. Complete noob here.

                                  How is the email "internal"? Do you have a local email server hosting email?
                                  I do not think you even understand what you are asking here.

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch @zachary715
                                    last edited by

                                    @zachary715 said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                    • We currently are Office365 users.

                                    You have no internal email. period.

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch
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                                      Setting up TLS: https://mangolassi.it/topic/12545/how-do-i-setup-tls-on-a-postfix-relay

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                                      • JaredBuschJ
                                        JaredBusch
                                        last edited by JaredBusch

                                        Setting up a Postfix relay. I need to rewrite this as I took the blog down.

                                        http://web.archive.org/web/20170320084803/http://jaredbusch.com/2014/12/28/setup-postfix-on-centos-7-to-relay-mail-to-an-internal-exchange-server/

                                        Note: this works for O365 also if you setup your public IP as a connectoer in Office 365.

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                                        • zachary715Z
                                          zachary715 @JaredBusch
                                          last edited by

                                          @jaredbusch said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                          @zachary715 said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                          Well this is part of my initial question is DO I NEED IT TO RELAY TO OFFICE365 AT ALL if it'll all be internal devices? You could make the argument I guess that eventually there may be an external device I wanted to use this for so set it up this way, but this is what I'm trying to uncover. Complete noob here.

                                          How is the email "internal"? Do you have a local email server hosting email?
                                          I do not think you even understand what you are asking here.

                                          Yeah good point. It has to go external since I'm using Office 365. My point though was simply do I need to relay to Office 365 to get what I need, or is a simple postfix server sufficient? I have my first device setup and working fine the way I intended. Not sure if other devices will cooperate as easy or not.

                                          Is there a security or other reason to not set it up this way? Are there any benefits to running the relay through Office 365? All questions I have to better wrap my head around this.

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                                          • zachary715Z
                                            zachary715 @JaredBusch
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                                            @jaredbusch said in How to receive e-mail alerts from internal devices:

                                            Setting up a Postfix relay. I need to rewrite this as I took the blog down.

                                            http://web.archive.org/web/20170320084803/http://jaredbusch.com/2014/12/28/setup-postfix-on-centos-7-to-relay-mail-to-an-internal-exchange-server/

                                            Note: this works for O365 also if you setup your public IP as a connectoer in Office 365.

                                            Yeah I actually saw that thread but as you stated, the blog was down so I just started a new thread to discuss it. I wanted to know more than "How to setup with Office365" though to understand why that was needed at all. Obviously will be very helpful though if I get to needing it so thanks for sharing.

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